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Super's purpose under further scrutiny

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 22 JAN 2016
... to repay a HELP debt, their final retirement savings at age 67 would be reduced by about $54,000. It would take super savings well below ASFA's estimated amount required to maintain a comfortable standard of living in retirement. "It also does not make ...

Equip to pay super contributions during parental leave

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2016
... August, attracted visits from nearly 4500 people who have been keen to use the comparator tool to see how their super savings stack up against men and women around their age. The campaign collected an award at the Australian Institute of Superannuation ...

Super changes won't close gender retirement gap: AIST

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 20 NOV 2015
... differences in lifetime earnings. "The persistent gender pay gap, currently at 18%, blows out to a far worse gap in super savings of 44%. We can't afford a system that fails half the population so badly," Campo said. "One of the key impediments to women ...

HESTA chief advocates better tax reform

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 29 OCT 2015
... contributions for women returning to work. It is a measure being considered by the federal government to address the super savings gap, largely experienced by disruptions in women's working life. "Our members are nurses, aged care workers and child carers ...

Deloitte super plan could save budget $6bn

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 26 OCT 2015
... The cap would then be raised for everyone else - subject to a safety net of a lifetime cap. "Depending on how the super savings are used - to cut taxes that really hurt our economy, or to fund social spending, or to help close the Budget deficit - the ...

Government using super as "petri dish": Labor

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2015
... $112,000, compared to $198,000 for men. He said almost 35% of women have no superannuation at all. Women and their super savings was an issue addressed by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull during Question Time earlier in the day. "There is no question ...

Super to fund Aussie infrastructure: Shorten

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 9 OCT 2015
... Labor's infrastructure plans at a Queensland Media Club event last night, Shorten said the predicted $4 trillion in super savings by 2025 should be put to "work on nation-building." The plan is to have Infrastructure Australia backed by a $10 billion ...

Senate hears too many holes for women in super

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 6 OCT 2015
... in retirement, Women In Super chair Cate Wood said a range of policy measures were needed to improve the gender super savings gap. "While there seems to be a growing consensus of the need to reform the super tax concessions, the savings made must be ...

Australian pre-retirees streets ahead of US

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 22 SEP 2015
Industry bodies often say people's super savings will not fund a comfortable retirement, but new stats from the US show just how far ahead Australia is. Figures from US researcher Bankrate show that 26% of Americans ages 50 to 54 have no savings. That ...

Retirement income is not one-size-fits-all

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2015
... account-based pension, supplemented by the Age Pension. Under the framework retirees with more than $250,000 in super savings are encouraged to part-annuitise their retirement balance. AIST chief executive Tom Garcia said the research showed one scenario ...