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Australians overconfident when it comes to income risk

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 5 AUG 2016
... majority of respondents, 6 in 10, stated they would prefer a benefits package that includes income protection as part of their salary, rather than higher pay. Looking to Australia, 48% of respondents said they would prefer benefits including income protection ...

Equip readies full robo advice roll-out

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 AUG 2016
... additional contributions they want to make for inclusion in the SOA. If they do this, Equip MyMoney will generate a pro forma salary sacrifice request for them to present to their employer. Sadler said Equip MyMoney would add Clover.com.au's service ...

UniSuper develops personalised retirement benchmark

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUL 2016
... relied on the ASFA retirement standard to benchmark how members are tracking, UniSuper's retirement adequacy index uses salary based targets to determine more individually relevant indicators of members' progress in attaining a level of retirement savings ...

Millennials' short-term thinking unrealistic

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUL 2016
... gave for investing: to supplement their pension; to re-invest income and grow their portfolio; and to supplement their salary. However millennials preferred to invest for immediate financial requirements rather than long-term gains. Compared to older ...

Queensland super funds become public offer

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 20 JUN 2016
... other spending. Pitt added the new legislation "will introduce changes to protect the QSuper defined benefit scheme against salary increases that lead to windfall gains in members' benefits that have not been paid for." Pennisi hinted QSuper will look ...

PROFILE: Vanguard Australia managing director Colin Kelton

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUN 2016
... stockbroking firm, which didn't fill him with confidence of what an investment career might entail. "The job ad said it was a salary plus commission job but when I got there I was told it was a mistake in the paper and it was actually just commission," ...

Self-employed missing super savings

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAY 2016
... as other ABS data. "The ABS data reinforces the diversity of retirement savings for both the self-employed and wage and salary earners. It also reinforces significant differences in the saving patterns of the self-employed relative to wage and salary ...

Super changes about sustainability: O'Dwyer

KELLY O'DWYER, ASSISTANT TREASURER AND MINISTER FOR SMALL BUSINESS  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAY 2016
... for personal superannuation contributions is only available to people who earn less than 10 per cent of their income from salary or wages. This will help the partially self-employed and those whose employers don't offer salary sacrificing arrangements ...

Potential budget super alterations welcome

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 2 MAY 2016
... leave through government and employer funding; removing the exemption from paying the SG in respect of employees whose salary or wages are less than $450 in a calendar month; and that mechanisms for improving the retirement incomes of carers be examined. ...

Is tapping into super to pay off student debt a good idea?

WHITNEY FITZSIMMONS  |  THURSDAY, 14 APR 2016
... taxation it would receive on superannuation funding earnings," he said. "Super for HELP also seems open to rorting, by salary sacrificing into superannuation and then using the money to repay a HELP debt. Many years in the future, there may also be additional ...