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Super reforms incubating unemployment risk

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JAN 2017
Recent reforms to superannuation and aged pension eligibility may result in higher levels of unemployment. Findings released by Roy Morgan show the average age of Australians intending to retire has increased from 58 in 2014 to 61 years of age, with ...

ASFA slams Grattan as 'out of touch'

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 16 JAN 2017
... Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) has labeled the Grattan Institute as 'out of touch' following its claims that the age pension and rent assistance would provide an adequate retirement for Australians. In a statement, ASFA chief executive Martin ...

Top 10 superannuation stories in 2016

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 DEC 2016
... UniSuper chair Chris Cuffe's comments about how the superannuation system was "never meant to totally replace the Age Pension," Lloyd said that there was little the super industry could do to solve the fundamental problem of Australians not having enough ...

SMSF satisfaction belies uncertainty

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 16 DEC 2016
... for retirement; 75% felt they would need to at least partially depend on an alternate source of income (such as the Age Pension) to fund their retirement. In regards to policy matters, most respondents (47%) were actually unaware of whether to support ...

MySuper progresses to MyRetirement

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 16 DEC 2016
... superannuation system to better meet its objective of providing income in retirement to substitute or supplement the Age Pension and to provide individuals with meaningful choice," O'Dwyer said. "As Australians enjoy longer and healthier lives and the ...

Industry funds lead Labor's super inquiry

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 5 DEC 2016
... earnings could reach $66 billion by 2024. Gallagher added this would not only put significant further demand on the age pension, but it would also deny hard working Australians the superannuation payments they are legally entitled to. Industry Super ...

Part-pensioners short-changed by asset test changes

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 NOV 2016
... the new asset test arrangements, a home-owning couple holding over $816,000 in assets will lose access to a partial age pension, as will a single home-owner if they hold over $542,500 in assets.

Super 2.0 must deliver retirement certainty: FSC

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 18 NOV 2016
... and flexible market; it must deliver a comfortable retirement for all and reduce the numbers of people on the old age pension - it must close the gender gap and it must be fiscally sustainable over the long-term," Loane said. "Australians want certainty ...

Super funds becoming retirement ready

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 14 NOV 2016
... mirror the results of the CommBank Retirement Ready Index research released last year. However if you take into account age pension entitlements, the proportion of people on-track rises to 61%. * This story was originally published as Cbus, Mercer aim ...

VicSuper highlights retirement struggles

KERRIE SYDEE  |  MONDAY, 14 NOV 2016
... that two in five (40%) full pensioners and one in three (33%) part pensioners are unaware of the upcoming changes to age pension eligibility due to come into effect 1 January 2017. VicSuper chief executive Michael Dundon said the findings show real cause ...