Yesterday
- Exclusive
- Super wars
Compare the pair: Retail super closes the fee gap
The performance gap between industry and retail superannuation funds is narrowing, raising the prospect of a fightback by for-profit super funds after the savaging wrought by the banking royal commission.
- Joanna Mather and Hannah Wootton
This Month
- Opinion
- Superannuation
Super performance test review must set a high returns bar
It’s reasonable to ask the question about constraining clean energy investments. But the hurdle must ultimately be whether Australians will retire with more income in retirement than would otherwise be the case.
- Blake Briggs
- Opinion
- SMSFs
Savvy super savers will avoid the $3m threshold. Here’s how
A tax increase to 30 per cent on super balances over $3 million will invariably shift investor behaviour.
- Tim Mackay
November
HESTA fined for ‘misleading’ ads on performance
Corporate watchdog says $74 billion fund’s action should serve as “a warning” to the industry to ensure marketing materials are accurate.
- Hannah Wootton and Lucy Dean
What you’ll owe under new super tax if your balance hits $3.5m
There are nine key takeouts on how it will work, plus how to plan ahead to minimise the impact.
- Colin Lewis
‘Financial heartbreak’: Customer complaints about super jump 32pc
Former truck driver Christian Jensen had to apply for two hardship variations on his mortgage due to delays from his super fund.
- Hannah Wootton and Lucy Dean
October
Labor stacks big super with 15 new power players
Cath Bowtell has quietly assumed the role of matriarch of the sprawling Labor-union aligned industry superannuation family.
- Updated
- Joanna Mather and Hannah Wootton
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Why Wayne Swan says super is our ‘economic secret weapon’
The former treasurer says the super sector proved its economic power during the GFC and can help Australia’s next set of big challenges.
- James Thomson
Donating from super could raise $22b a year for charities
Making it easier and cheaper to leave super to charity could boost giving by as much as $22 billion a year, the peak philanthropy body has said, as it pushes for reform.
- Lucy Dean
