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Stop penalising women: HESTA

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 FEB 2023
... on leave. It found, an early childhood educator with three children could have as much as a 6.5% boost to their super savings while an aged care professional with two children could see her super get an additional 4.2% at retirement. Meanwhile, a mother ...

Millions of retirees will benefit from QAR

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 29 NOV 2022
... retirement incomes per individual every year on average. The reforms would also help two million more retirees with super savings obtain financial advice by 2040. This figure will increase to 3.4 million by 2060. "These retirees would collectively draw ...

Retirement fears on the rise: AMP

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 SEP 2022
... Hillier said that as a result, many Australians are under-spending in retirement, passing away with as much as 90% of super savings untouched. However, the number of people starting to think about their retirement plans has doubled from two years ago. ...

AustralianSuper increases investment fees

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 25 AUG 2022
... balance. UniSuper also has much lower fees of 0.64%, or $321 per year. However, Australian Retirement Trust's Super Savings product has higher Mysuper fees of 1.11% ($557.4 pa). Also, Aware Super has fees of 1.34% ($672 pa). Elsewhere, some retail ...

Calls to pay super on parental leave grow

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 22 AUG 2022
... or in industries that are typically lower paid, like aged care and early childhood education. Achieving adequate super savings is then even harder as they'll often also need to take long periods of unpaid time out of the workforce to care for others. ...

Australian Retirement Trust records -0.96% return

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUL 2022
... their underlying values." He said the fund's diversified portfolios weathered the storm better than most, with the Super Savings and QSuper Balanced options among the best performing products this financial year. Over 10 years, the options have returned ...

Colonial reveals Australia's huge untapped workforce

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUN 2022
... give Australians the opportunity to substantially increase their retirement savings as delaying drawing down on super savings and maintaining contributions would have a powerful multiplier effect." KPMG research has shown that men aged 45 years old were ...

BT answers advisers' top tax time questions

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUN 2022
... maximum - doesn't count towards any of the contribution caps and can still be made even if a person has total super savings greater than $1.7 million. A client's spouse can also make a downsizer contribution to their own super of up to $300,000 ...

Liberals should liberate Australians from super: Bragg

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAY 2022
... the COVID period when the Liberal government had no control or monitoring plan on who was granted early access to super savings. "This portion of the population will then fall back on public pension which puts additional pressure on Australia's fiscal ...

Action on super gap slow, small

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAR 2022
... finally been scrapped in a win for women - but this is just one small step in addressing the significant gap in super savings between men and women. "The $450 per month SG threshold penalised an estimated 300,000 Australians - two thirds of them women ...