Your Future, Your Super: What it means for you
After much haggling, the Government’s latest package of super reforms aimed at tackling high fees and low performance has passed through parliament.
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Barbara is a financial journalist and author with over 30 years’ experience in Australia and the UK. She is a contributor to The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age Money section, and has worked for the Australian Financial Review and The Australian.
Barbara is the author of Alan Kohler’s Eureka Report Guide to Personal Investing, Sorting Out Your Finances for Dummies and Personal Finance for Dummies and co-author of Investing for Dummies with James Kirby.
After much haggling, the Government’s latest package of super reforms aimed at tackling high fees and low performance has passed through parliament.
After the coronavirus recession of early 2020, the strength of the economic recovery and investment returns defied all expectations, in a good way.
There are legitimate reasons for maintaining reserves in your SMSF, but the ATO is keen to point out that avoiding tax is not one of them.
Member services have the potential to rev up your super returns, so check what’s on offer.
This calculator helps you estimate how long you might live, based on the latest Life Tables from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) and the Australian Government Actuary.
Fees are important, but they are not the only thing driving superannuation’s investment returns.
After a tumultuous year that rocked lives and livelihoods, investors have cause for cautious optimism in the year ahead.
It’s been a long time coming, but a group of superannuation industry professionals is proposing a set of standards to categorise growth and defensive assets.
A rising chorus of superannuation industry professionals agree the current labelling of super investment options is past its use by date, but that’s where the agreement ends.
It was a year when it felt like an achievement just to make it to the other side.
An SMSF trustee declaration is an Australian Taxation Office (ATO) document that summarises the duties and obligations of an SMSF trustee or director.
It’s often said that location is everything where property is concerned, but it also makes a big difference to how far your money stretches in retirement.
Shares at record highs and interest rates at record lows. One of the defining aspects of 2019 was the flight to higher risk assets in pursuit of higher returns.
Have you ever wondered how the rich invest? Very cautiously is the answer.
As we look back over the 2018/19 financial year, it was a year in two halves.
SMSF trustees are often accused of being unadventurous in their asset allocation, but some are bucking the trend with ‘exotic’ investments in everything from horse semen to vending machines and dividend-paying cows.
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