Financial Standard Comments - Super returns up slightly to 12.8pct The SelectingSuper Workplace rolling 12 month default option index recovered slightly during February to return 12.8% up from 12.5% at end January albeit this is still sharply down from December's 16.1%. https://www.financialstandard.com.au/feed/latest?story=39183788 Fri, 04 Apr 2014 14:11:05 +1100 Fri, 04 Apr 2014 14:11:05 +1100 en-AU Copyright 2026 Financial Standard 5 <![CDATA[ Comment by jack wellings (Wellings & Associates) ]]>

Once we stop deluding ourselves that share price increases (ie windfall 'paper' profits) are investment returns, we might start to get somewhere in Australia's having a decent retirement incomes policy. The 2008-09 GFC - from which share-prices have yet to fully recover - surely demonstrated this fact.

Dividend receipts, interest earnings, rental incomes and REALISED capital gains are the only real investment returns.

Share-price changes are merely 'on paper' and delusional and, at best, a speculative approach to retirement income planning.

Time we woke up, Australia!

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