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Australians are hardly retirement ready

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2015
... women's retirement readiness. Rubinsztein added that older age groups have suffered from not enjoying superannuation guarantee (SG) contributions over their working lifetimes and less time to achieve adequate retirement savings. "Recent research found ...

Cbus opposes smaller super guarantee penalties

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2015
... business minister Bruce Billson recently introduced draft legislation aiming to reduce the harshness of the superannuation guarantee charge (SGC), claiming it is burdensome on small businesses. Cbus chief executive, David Atkin, said the non-payment ...

FSC calls for 12% super by 2022

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2015
... 70 years, an astonishing 70% of retirees will still receive some form of the age pension in 2055. "A superannuation guarantee rate of 9.5% is simply too low to help Australians self-fund their retirement," she said. "The superannuation guarantee must ...

Super non-compliance endemic: ATO

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2015
... recommendations by the ANAO but calls on the government to go further and investigate aligning payment of the superannuation guarantee with wages. "The ATO also needs greater resources to tackle the problem or other bodies such as the Fair Work Ombudsman ...

Trillion dollar super industry attractive to organised criminals

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 1 JUN 2015
... when a company is intentionally placed into administration or liquidation to avoid payment of taxes and superannuation guarantee and/or other employee entitlements - is also a threat to the integrity of Australia's tax revenue and superannuation systems. ...

Shadow Treasurer will go to election over super

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2015
... said Prime Minister Tony Abbott promised not to touch superannuation but already had by freezing the superannuation guarantee at 9.5%. The announcements Labor has made about multinational tax and superannuation are "far from the be-all and end-all of ...

Age pension kept at highest indexation rate

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2015
In the absence of an increase in the superannuation guarantee, industry representative groups agree Australians will need to put more money in to their super accounts after changes to the Age Pension were announced in the federal budget. Most changes ...

Funds wrestling with liquidity problem

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 7 APR 2015
... the scale and liquidity required for the size of trades needed at the appropriate level of return. With superannuation guarantee contributions amounting to an estimated $60 billion in 2014-15, approximately $5 billion per month flows into the superannuation ...

Super breaks $2trn on way to $9trn

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2015
... over the next two decades but people of working age will account for one half of the increase. While the Superannuation Guarantee (SG) rate increasing progressively to 12% will change the distribution of who receives higher contributions in dollar terms ...

Allow couples to hold joint super accounts: Rice Warner

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 10 FEB 2015
... more to female employees' superannuation accounts and to remove the $450 a month threshold under which superannuation guarantee contributions do not need to be paid. "This threshold was introduced to avoid high costs of collecting small amounts by small ...