super

Consolidating your superannuation takes a handful of clicks on the MyGov website. And yet many - including yours truly - put it off, pouring money down the drain through excess fees. Much of this has to do with basic human nature. "It's a little ... More

Plans to boost your retirement savings with an increase in the super guarantee won't mean less take-home pay, latest research shows. The Centre for Future Work at the Australia Institute says there is no historical link between increases in the ... More

Australia's largest super fund has been crowned fund of the year at this year's Rainmaker SelectingSuper awards in Melbourne this morning. AustralianSuper, with around 2.2 million members and $167 billion in funds under management, took home ... More

Money isn't the root of all arguments in relationships, but it comes close. David Roberts, manager for mediation services at Relationships Australia, says money pressures are one of the top four reasons that couples separate. US research has found ... More

It would be unusual for someone to buy their home unseen, without research, especially given the sum of money involved. Yet when it comes to super it's a different story. People mistakenly assume their employer's default fund, called MySuper ... More

For too long, women have been the wallflowers at the superannuation party. Women, on average, retire with around 40% less super than men despite the fact that we live longer and need more. According to Women in Super, 40% of older single retired women ... More

Australians are living longer, but whether our retirement income system is coping is a question the federal government wants answered (and consumers need answered) before June 2020. The government wants an answer because the Productivity Commission ... More

Superannuation is a bit like cholesterol - and not just because both have long names. By the time you need to know about it, you wish you'd known more, earlier. It's not hard to put super on the backburner. Most of us are too busy in the present ... More

One of my grandmothers was a self-funded retiree in a capital city who took an active interest in her investments. The other lived in a small country town and survived fortnight-to-fortnight on the age pension. Let's call them Rich Nan and Poor ... More

Identifying bad superannuation funds will be easier from December with a new colour coded heat map from the superannuation fund regulator, APRA. There are currently around 100 MySuper funds but it can be complex to tell the good value, strongly performing ... More