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What to expect from the Retirement Income Review

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2020
... Grattan bets on super tax, SG rate For Grattan Institute, the focus will be on superannuation tax breaks and SG contributions. Grattan Institute household finances program director Brendan Coates thinks differently on SG, not wanting an increase, telling ...

How Cbus is servicing early release requests

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2020
... to the ERS legislation announcement and some liquid fixed income positions. Cbus also had access to incoming SG contributions and, pleasingly, from members who moved to cash as the markets fell but have started to move back into diversified options now. ...

More super funds will merge: QMV

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2020
... unemployed, super funds without diversified member bases will face several problems at once - they will lose SG contributions, have fewer new members joining and have a large number of members withdrawing funds due to financial hardship. This is one ...

Stopping SG is nuclear response to COVID-19

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2020
... said today, the global economy will bounce back on the other side of this health shock," Fahy said. "Pausing SG contributions would rob Australians of the opportunity to capitalise on that recovery and to maximise their retirement savings" Meanwhile ...

Take pride in super: Rice Warner

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2020
... people save more of their annual income given the mandatory requirement to contribute to superannuation, or do SG contributions simply substitute for savings that would have been made anyway?" Rice Warner said. "Secondly, does the superannuation system ...

Flaws in Grattan SG research: Report

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 NOV 2019
... which was commissioned by industry superannuation funds. He found there is no statistical evidence that higher SG contributions would automatically lead to lower wages and hence be self-defeating. "The research refutes claims made by some commentators ...

Salary sacrifice loophole bill insufficient: ISA

KRISTI CHENG  |  MONDAY, 19 AUG 2019
... salary, better monitoring and stronger enforcement by the ATO, extending the Fair Entitlements Guarantee to cover SG contributions, and removing the $450 threshold for SG payment.

Government to close super salary sacrifice loophole

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUL 2019
... rate of 15%. Salary sacrificed amounts count towards employer contributions that reduce an employer's mandated SG contributions, according to the explanatory memorandum, noting that employers can calculate SG obligations on a (lower) post salary sacrifice ...

Future Fund delivers 5.8%

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 11 FEB 2019
... Future Fund is tasked with investing historical government surplus as a sovereign wealth fund and does not invest SG contributions.

Advice firm runs rule over Labor policy

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2018
... income. "Personal super contributions of the difference between the $25,000 maximum limit and the compulsory SG contributions may provide a large tax deduction," he said. "Particularly for those over age 40, contributing more into superannuation for ...