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Super delivers for the masses: Challenger

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 JUN 2019
... perfectly for everyone, Challenger said, noting that those not working in stable, full-time employment tend to end up with poorer outcomes in retirement. Challenger suggests removing the $450 a month threshold for Superannuation Guarantee payments; paying ...

Chief economist update: Currency manipulators beware

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 MAY 2019
... the world. Live and let live. Instead, victory for Trump is not only by becoming rich but also by making his neighbours poorer. Not only is Trump "draining the swamp in Washington DC" as he pledged during his presidential campaign in 2016, he's also ...

Superannuation mergers strike oligopoly fears

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 23 APR 2019
... lack of scale makes it difficult to be great, she adds. Nance estimates about one-quarter of these funds are providing poorer quality service or options compared to the best quarter. In five to 10 years' time, Nance forecasts the industry will end ...

The $500k price tag on bad super choices

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 8 FEB 2019
Sticking to a bad super fund could leave the average Australian worker more than $500,000 poorer over their lifetime, latest research from SelectingSuper found. The research considered an average employee's salary, fees and contributions over 45 ...

Industry Super Australia attacks Future Fund concept

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2019
... Phil Gallagher, ISA is adamant that any move to push workers' retirement savings into the Future Fund would result in poorer performance. ISA said a worker earning $80,000 a year could ultimately lose 13.6% - or $124,850 - of their retirement savings ...

And so this is Christmas, another year (almost) over

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 DEC 2018
... also pointed out that while wage growth remains disappointing, household income has shown strong gains, particularly for poorer households. In addition, wages rising faster in regions where unemployment rate is the lowest and companies now under pressure ...

Chief economist update: Slowing in sync

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2018
... paints a thousand words, so here's what the Fed's policy normalisation has done to emerging markets. For better or poorer, all these uncertainties have now turned the synchronised global upswing of 2017 and early 2018 into a synchronised global ...

Big-spending retirees live in Melbourne: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 18 SEP 2018
... electricity and gas are rising at a greater pace than inflation and will have a significantly greater impact on retirees in poorer areas. Caboolture retirees' average annual expenditure could be entirely funded by the full Age Pension, Milliman noted. ...

We have won the battle, not the war: AustralianSuper CEO

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 9 AUG 2018
... members, particularly AustralianSuper members. He said the rationale was members who left the industry fund would likely face poorer retirement outcomes if they moved to a retail fund. Additionally, Silk confirmed greater inflows of new members into ...

Chief economist update: Shanghai's drop is China's problem, the yuan's slide is everyone's

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUN 2018
... bonds? Certainly, China will suffer a loss but America's Trump might have to pay a higher price and we'll all be the poorer for this. Ben Ong is the Director of Economics and Investments at Rainmaker Group. He previously worked as a fund manager ...