superannuation

Our attention turns this week to what is most Australian’s second biggest asset: superannuation. Super means a lot things to every Australian. For some it’s a tax...

Reasonable valuations, economic growth, falling interest rates, and growing debt: the driving forces of a typical balanced fund’s performance are all but spent. So,...

The almost $30 billion Australians have yanked from their super during the government’s early release program is anything but free money, BetaShares modelling shows....

In mid-January, research house SuperRatings said that members could expect ‘solid’ returns in 2020. While 2019 had been a bumper year, powered by one of the best...

This is an update of a note I wrote last November, but after the recent plunge in shares and the associated 10% or so loss in balanced growth superannuation funds...

A time of reckoning for those super and other funds offering ready access to investors while holding large exposures to illiquid assets was going to come one day. Most...

Most superannuation funds, and especially industry funds have significant balances in unlisted assets. Many are telling you that these assets haven't lost money, or...

The Federal government dropped a bombshell on the superannuation industry over the weekend with the announcement that members who had lost income due to the COVID-19...

Australians have been making compulsory superannuation contributions since 1992. Today, there is around $2.75 trillion dollars in retirement savings in superannuation...