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May 2023 Retiree newsletter

Pension fund of the year 2025-26: What makes a winner?
As the Baby Boomer bubble enters retirement, attention is shifting to the retirement phase of super and which funds offer the best pension products and member services. Read more.
Pension fund of the year 2025-26: What makes a winner?
As the Baby Boomer bubble enters retirement, attention is shifting to the retirement phase of super and which funds offer the best pension products and member services. Read more.
Planning your account-based pension withdrawals for the new financial year
If you‘re thinking about increasing or decreasing payments from your super pension, the new financial year is a good time, but not the only time, to consider it. Read more.
Planning your account-based pension withdrawals for the new financial year
If you‘re thinking about increasing or decreasing payments from your super pension, the new financial year is a good time, but not the only time, to consider it. Read more.
How separation and divorce affect the Age Pension
Age Pension entitlements can increase or decrease markedly when couples split, depending on things like each person’s share of marriage assets and home ownership status. Read more.
How separation and divorce affect the Age Pension
Age Pension entitlements can increase or decrease markedly when couples split, depending on things like each person’s share of marriage assets and home ownership status. Read more.
What is the Age Pension age?
The age at which eligible retirees can start receiving the Age Pension has risen to 67. Bad news if you were born from 1957 on, but the good news is… Read more.
What is the Age Pension age?
The age at which eligible retirees can start receiving the Age Pension has risen to 67. Bad news if you were born from 1957 on, but the good news is… Read more.
Minimum pension drawdown rates (2025–26) and calculator
Age-based minimum annual withdrawal rates apply to account-based pensions. Here’s how they are calculated. Read more.
Minimum pension drawdown rates (2025–26) and calculator
Age-based minimum annual withdrawal rates apply to account-based pensions. Here’s how they are calculated. Read more.

SuperGuide members Q&A: June 2023

Thursday 22 June 2023 at 11:00 am AEST

In this webinar super expert Garth McNally will answer recent questions from SuperGuide members.

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Are you concerned about your adult children paying tax on super they inherit from you? Or perhaps you would like to transfer more into tax-free retirement pensions but have reached the transfer balance cap.

A recontribution strategy could help. Now that anyone below age 75 can make super contributions, even when fully retired, the option is open to a wider audience.

Read more about the recontribution strategy.


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