superannuation

From July 1, Australia's superannuation system will undergo a major facelift in what the Minister for Superannuation and Financial Services Jane Hume describes as the...

The walls of the Melbourne headquarters of Equity Trustees (ASX: EQT) are adorned with the portraits of former prime ministers, premiers and governors-general who have...

You can be forgiven for thinking the content of this evening's yet-to-be-announced Federal Budget already feels like yesterday's news. (That's the 24/7...

What with all the wild, speculative share price swings of late you may have experienced a niggling urge to throw your hard-earned cash at the next big thing you read...

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...