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Superannuation assets hit $3.3tn

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 AUG 2021
... year ending June 2021. Employer contributions stood at $98.5 billion (up 1.9%). Of this, superannuation guarantee contributions were $74.1 billion (up 4.3%). Member contributions were $28.5 billion (up 17.1%), of which personal contributions were $26.5 ...

MySuper performance soars

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 9 JUL 2021
... their superannuation accounts through the year, six-times the amount of all the compulsory Superannuation Guarantee contributions or 17-times what was paid in fees." Cbus highlighted this week that its MySuper financial year returns were the highest ...

Rest offers extra parental leave

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAY 2021
... foundations for performance and decision making. Some 60% of Rest's membership are women. Superannuation Guarantee contributions has been a key feature of Rest's parental leave offering since July 2016, Doyle said. "Paying super contributions ...

Quasi-mergers in APRA's sights

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAR 2021
... costs. "Worst of all, it would do these two things whilst continuing to collect compulsory superannuation guarantee contributions. It seems this new entity is now in operation solely for the benefit of related parties," Bragg wrote.

ISA calls for super tax reform

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2020
... women. "The LISTO was aligned with the tax-free threshold and 19% tax bracket and matches superannuation guarantee contributions - but the tax cuts have moved those brackets up the scale," ISA said. "But the LISTO rate has stalled at $37,000 taxable ...

AIST calls for top-ups for low-income ERS recipients

ANNABELLE DICKSON, KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2020
... equating to $83.8 billion in lost investment earnings and an estimated $16.4 billion in lost superannuation guarantee contributions. AIST has recommended the superannuation co-contribution rate and threshold be increased, the removal of the $450 minimum ...

Regulators in Productivity Commission firing line

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 10 JAN 2019
... superannuation on public finances, and the economic and distributional impacts of the $450 Superannuation Guarantee contributions threshold. The Commission wants the inquiry to be completed before any increase in the Superannuation Guarantee rate. Finally ...

Half of Australian households will be retire ready

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 7 FEB 2017
... reduced retire-readiness as they have not received the long term benefits of compulsory Superannuation Guarantee contributions. When the Age Pension is removed from the equation, the number of households that can afford a comfortable retirement reduces ...

Equip's new provision for domestic violence

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAY 2016
... revamped employee support program follows Equip's decision in January to continue to pay superannuation guarantee contributions into its employees' super accounts during paid and unpaid parental leave to help keep their retirement savings on track during ...

Equip to pay super contributions during parental leave

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2016
... talk when it comes to helping close Australia's gender savings gap, announcing it will pay superannuation guarantee contributions in to its employees' super accounts during paid and unpaid parental leave. The decision is based around Equip's belief that ...