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Treasury drafts superannuation retirement income principles

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 24 FEB 2025
... how superannuation and the wider financial services industry can help Australians more effectively use their retirement savings to live their best possible life in retirement. "There's nothing stopping them [super funds] but some are just a little bit ...

Super fund investment in US to skyrocket

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 24 FEB 2025
... Going Global report said Australians' superannuation assets are one of the largest and fastest growing pools of retirement savings in the world. "As the system has grown and matured, Australian pension funds have been increasingly investing in international ...

Superannuation powerbrokers bound for US investment summit

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2025
... Superannuation Investment Summit said they would be "going into bat for the interests of millions of Australians" with retirement savings invested in the US - "scouring the globe for the best deals to boost returns." "The landmark summit positions Australia's ...

HUB24 engulfs ClearView's remaining superannuation business

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 FEB 2025
... ClearView WealthFoundations Super and Pension product. At the time, 5500 members with approximately $450 million in retirement savings moved across. The now-defunct ClearView Superannuation and Roll-Overs and ClearView Pension Plan products were originally ...

Senate calls to overhaul super fund boards

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2025
... super system" that Australians value. ACTU assistant secretary Joseph Mitchel said most Australians trust their retirement savings to the super funds with worker representatives on their board. "Outlawing that option is insulting to the millions who ...

Australian Retirement Trust, Qantas Super set merger date

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2025
... contribution of all those who came before us, I acknowledge the honour and privilege we have had in looking after the retirement savings of Qantas Super's members for over 86 years," Atkin said. "Though it is bittersweet to close this chapter in Qantas ...

Australians don't trust politicians with their super: FSC

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 11 FEB 2025
... this shifted to a net positive +4 after respondents were informed of the opposition's commitment to protect retirement savings from "unfair new taxes." FSC chief executive Blake Briggs said Labor's perseverance in raising taxes is eroding Australian's ...

Australian super assets set to become second largest globally: WTW

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 11 FEB 2025
... systems in the 2025 Global Pension Assets Study. The US has the biggest market with US$38 trillion ($60.6tn) in retirement savings, followed by Japan and Canada with US$3.3 trillion ($5.3tn) respectively, and the UK with US$3.1 trillion ($5tn). While ...

Most retirees who rent live in poverty: Grattan Institute

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 10 FEB 2025
... likely to get worse. Declining rates of homeownership among low-income Australians, together with the lower retirement savings of many women, increase the risk that more older women, in particular, will face homelessness as they approach retirement," ...

The regulatory pendulum has swung too far: FSC

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 31 JAN 2025
... superannuation tax is also political trickery at its crudest, designed to hit only those with over $3 million in retirement savings - rich boomers - because after all, who could object to that...? Whilst the incidence of the tax, who it will actually ...