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Teen workers to miss out on $411m in FY27: SMC

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 4 AUG 2026
The Super Members Council (SMC) said half a million teen workers across Australia will miss out on $411 million in super this financial year due to the current exclusion if they work part-time. The SMC said the outdated law is prohibiting around 530,000 ...

ASIC ramps up action against SMSF auditors

VINNY VUCAGO  |  MONDAY, 27 JUL 2026
ASIC has stepped up enforcement against self-managed superannuation fund (SMSF) auditors, acting against 64 practitioners during the 2025-26 financial year amid concerns over compliance and professional standards across the sector. The corporate regulator ...

Labor commits to compulsory super for under-18 workers

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2026
Labor has unanimously supported extending superannuation to under-18 Australian workers. Delegates at Labor's National Conference voted to include a policy to extend compulsory super regardless of the hours of worked, in its National Platform, a formal ...

Fight between SMC and FSC on super rages on

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2026
The Super Members Council (SMC) has called out the Financial Services Council (FSC) on making selective claims about performance and costs of 'platform' super funds compared with performance-tested mainstream MySuper funds. A latest research by FSC ...

FEATURE | Platforms | The investment supermarket

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2026
Grab a shopping cart and enter the investment supermarket. The shelves are stacked - an Aussie large-cap fund here, an ETF there, a fixed-income fund somewhere near the back, past the alternatives nobody quite understands. There is an estimated $1 trillion ...

FSCP bans adviser over client advice failures

VINNY VUCAGO  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2026
The Financial Services Credit Panel (FSCP) has cancelled the registration of financial adviser Peter Morrison-Dowd and banned him from providing personal advice to retail clients until at least September 2027 after finding multiple breaches of his legal ...

NGS Super names head of strategy

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2026
... for Australians. "Super funds have an increasingly important role to play in helping members navigate the transition from saving for retirement to drawing an income with confidence," he said. "I'm looking forward to working with the NGS Super team ...

FEATURE | Retirement | A layer of confidence

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2026
... retirement are often neglected as a result. "In Australia, we expect an awful lot from retirees. What we say to people is that saving for retirement is difficult for a lot of you, so we're going to make it compulsory," Huppert says. "We think choosing ...

Hostplus delivers double-digit FY26 returns

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  MONDAY, 13 JUL 2026
Hostplus Balanced (MySuper) option delivered members 10.8% for the financial year 2025-26, while the Indexed Balanced option and the High Growth option returned members 11.06% and 12.61% respectively. Hostplus chief investment officer Sam Sicilia said ...

Traditional investing principles unsuitable in decumulation: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 13 JUL 2026
New research from Milford Asset Management challenges widely accepted investment principles, arguing retirement portfolios require a fundamentally different approach from those built during the accumulation phase. The paper, When Timing Becomes the ...