Ten handy uses for the APRA200 performance list
You now have a list of Australia’s largest 200 funds. The largest 200 super funds hold 99% of all money held in APRA-regulated super funds, which means the remaining 160-odd super funds regulated by APRA hold the remaining 1% of assets.
Mirror, mirror… what super fund is the best-performing fund of all?
Asking experts and rating agencies for Australia’s best-performing fund can be compared to the vain stepmother in Snow White asking the magical mirror: ‘Mirror mirror on the wall, who in the land is the fairest of all?”.
8 steps to super success
Merely thinking about your super means you’re straddling the first major hurdle that most Australians face when planning (or not) for their retirement and looking into your future. As an employee, you have your employer helping you with your retirement [...]
Can I put my super into a bank account?
I am not in a self managed super fund. Can I put my superannuation balance into a bank account to get around 6% until I retire in 2.5 years?
Ban unhedged international shares in default investment options
A failure by large super funds to fully hedge against the Australian dollar on international share investments is what I consider to be a major investment boo-boo. Hedging is used to fully or partially eliminate the impact of foreign currency movements on the value of investments.
Super for beginners, part 20: Comparing your super fund’s performance
Every month or two (or more recently, every week it seems) the media reports the latest returns from Australia’s largest super funds.
THE SOAPBOX: Is your super fund gambling with your retirement savings?
Complacency is a dangerous state of mind when you’re investing billions of dollars on behalf of millions of Australians, especially in the wake of the global financial crisis (GFC).
Super for beginners, Part 1: I’m new to Australia – help me!
Q: I’m new to Australia and I have absolutely no idea where to start with my super in order to have the best outcome 40 years from now.
THE SOAPBOX EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Cheap financial advice now available – what does it mean for consumers?
Superannuation funds are now providing cheap (and in some cases, free) personal financial advice to super fund members with the blessing of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). In early July 2009, ASIC announced that it’s okay to provide [...]
