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Learn strategies that can save you tax, boost your super balance, or your income in retirement
Discover the best performing super funds, pension funds and asset classes
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- 12 months' access
- Equivalent of just $11 per month
Monthly subscription
- 1 month's access
- Can change to annual at any time
You can pay by credit card, debit card or PayPal.
You can also pay by bank transfer when purchasing an annual subscription.
You can pause or cancel your membership at any time, and are also protected by our 30-day no questions asked money back guarantee.
What's included in a SuperGuide Premium subscription?
SuperGuide Premium has 8 main sections
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How super works: Includes super for beginners, must-know facts, the latest super and retirement changes, super rates and thresholds, super strategies, how-to guides, Q&As, tips and quizzes.
Key articles include:
Making super contributions: Covers how much your employer must pay into your super fund, how much you can contribute, salary sacrificing, tax-deductible contributions, contributions caps and strategies.
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Super fund performance: Discover the best-performing super funds, latest investment returns, a guide to super investing, investment choice, fees, insurance options and how to compare super funds.
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Super and tax: Find out how your super benefits are taxed when you retire, how super contributions are taxed, how super tax affects SMSFs and the tax implications for death benefits.
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SMSFs: This section helps anyone running (or considering) a self-managed super fund, and includes SMSFs for beginners, costs, administration, compliance, investment, pensions, borrowing and Q&As.
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Planning for retirement: Helps answer questions such as how much super is enough, when can you retire, how long will you live, will you get the Age Pension, how can you set up a retirement plan, and how to obtain financial advice.
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Accessing super: Learn all the legal ways you can withdraw your super, your preservation age, the types of super benefits you can choose, about divorce and super, leaving Australia, or accessing super early.
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In retirement: Covers retirement phase topics such as taking a super lump or starting a super pension, working in retirement, CSHC, Age Pension, and what happens to super benefits when someone dies.
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How super works
Includes super for beginners, must-know facts, the latest super and retirement changes, super rates and thresholds, super strategies, how-to guides, Q&As, tips and quizzes.
Making super contributions
Covers how much your employer must pay into your super fund, how much you can contribute, salary sacrificing, tax-deductible contributions, contributions caps and strategies.
Super fund performance
Discover the best-performing super funds, latest investment returns, a guide to super investing, investment choice, fees, insurance options and how to compare super funds.
Super and tax
Find out how your super benefits are taxed when you retire, how super contributions are taxed, how super tax affects SMSFs and the tax implications for death benefits.
SMSFs
This section helps anyone running (or considering) a self-managed super fund, and includes SMSFs for beginners, costs, administration, compliance, investment, pensions, borrowing and Q&As.
Planning for retirement
Helps answer questions such as how much super is enough, when can you retire, how long will you live, will you get the Age Pension, how can you set up a retirement plan, and how to obtain financial advice.
Accessing super
Learn the 14 legal ways to withdraw your super, your preservation age, the types of super benefits you can choose, about divorce and super, leaving Australia, or accessing super early.
In retirement
Covers retirement phase topics such as taking a super lump or starting a super pension, working in retirement, CSHC, Age Pension, and what happens to super benefits when someone dies.
SuperGuide Premium can help you answer important questions such as:
If you are planning your retirement...
- What were the best performing super funds, over 1 year, 5 years and 10 years?
- How much super will I need to retire, and can I afford to retire early?
- What can I do now to prepare for the kind of retirement I want?
- Will I be eligible for the Age Pension or other entitlements?
- What are the current super and tax rates and thresholds?
- How much can I contribute to my super fund?
- How do I compare funds or choose a fund?
- How and when can I access my super?
If you are in retirement...
- What are the latest super changes, and how do they affect me?
- How can I manage my super and other entitlements in retirement?
- What are the latest retirement or Age Pension changes?
- What are the rules for working in retirement?
- How much Age Pension might I be eligible for?
- What are the super and retirement rules for over-65s?
- What super strategies are the most appropriate in retirement?
- What were the top performing pension funds, over 1 year, 5 years and 10 years?
If you have (or are considering) a self-managed super fund (SMSF)...
- How much do SMSFs cost to set up and run?
- How do I set up and run my SMSF according to the super rules?
- What are my obligations as an SMSF trustee?
- What the rules when investing in property through your SMSF?
- How do I create and monitor an SMSF investment portfolio?
- What were the top performing asset classes over 1 year, 5 years and 10 years?
- What are the most popular ETFs that SMSFs invest in?
- How do I run my SMSF pension?
What makes SuperGuide different?
We're independent
SuperGuide gives you the full picture because we aren’t funded by the industry or government. We have no conflicts of interest and no ulterior motives or hidden agendas. Our objective is simply to help you get your best possible retirement outcome.
We're comprehensive
Over the last 10 years we have developed a library of hundreds of articles, checklists, Q&As, case studies and other tools that cover all aspects of superannuation, SMSF and retirement planning.
We're up-to-date
We ensure all articles are up-to-date with current rules and regulations, and we also give you historic and future rates when appropriate.
We're experts
We have been writing about superannuation and retirement planning for decades, so know every rule inside out. We are the super specialists for all Australians.
We're focused
We have always been purely focused on showing Australians how superannuation works, and how to plan for their best possible retirement.
Who is behind SuperGuide?
SuperGuide was founded in 2009 because we saw there was no independent, reliable, up-to-date superannuation information resource for everyday Australians. We passionately believe that financial literacy is critical for everyone - whether you have a financial adviser or not.
We’re fortunate to have some of Australia’s most talented and experienced super writers working with us, including:
Barbara Drury: 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.
Alexandra Cain: Alexandra regularly writes for the Australian Financial Review as well as several other publications in Australia and overseas including The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, In The Black and Forge.
She also edits Listed@ASX and has previously published a weekly small business column called The Big Idea which appeared in the Fairfax metropolitan mastheads.
Penny Pryor: Penny has nearly two decades experience of writing, reporting and editing financial services publications for both institutional and retail readers. She has contributed to, and edited, the Money Section of the Sun Herald and The Sunday Age.
She has written for the Australian Financial Review and the Sydney Morning Herald, the Cooperative Research Centres Association publication KnowHow Magazine, JMoney, In The Black and Global Investor.
Janine Mace: Janine has over 25 years’ experience writing about superannuation, including a decade as Managing Editor of the ASFA’s highly respected industry magazine, SuperFunds. She has worked with a range of super funds and leading institutional investment managers.
Her work has appeared in the Australian Financial Review personal finance section and she has been a regular contributor to Money Management and Financial Planning magazines.
What our readers say
Thank you for your efforts in producing this publication. I have found it very helpful in trying to keep up with the constant changing goal posts.
Jenny C
Very informative newsletter about retirement, and account based pensions.
Peter P
Thank you once again for making the whole issue of super as it stands today, understandable.
Wendy Donald
Hi SuperGuide, I just wanted to thank you for providing this service. We have had a self-managed fund for 26 years, but are now looking to roll our balances into not-for-profit funds. In the two months that I have subscribed I have been able, using SuperGuide with my own research, to get a good understanding of the bigger super funds and to select the funds into which we will roll our capital. SuperGuide has been very valuable in this process, and having the ability to pause our subscription is also a big help. Thank you, once again, for a providing a valuable service in such a flexible manner.
Chris Young
Thanks for explaining all the hidden agendas and exposing the duplicitous behaviour of our political leaders – they are treating us like fools.
Gerard
Thanks for explaining this in an understandable way.
Amanda
Thanks for a great and easy to use calculator.
Rose W
Excellent, reliable, non-biased, comprehensive information on Super and SMSFs.
Chris
Annual subscription
- 12 months' access
- Equivalent of just $11 per month
Monthly subscription
- 1 month's access
- Can change to Annual at any time
You can pay by credit card, debit card or PayPal. You can also pay by bank transfer when purchasing an annual subscription.
You can pause or cancel your membership at any time, and are also protected by our 30-day no questions asked money back guarantee.
You may be able to claim your subscription as tax deduction or SMSF expense*.
A SuperGuide Premium subscription is an investment that can pay off in multiple ways – showing you super and retirement strategies that potentially save you money (or tax), or build up your super balance, or help you manage your super more effectively in retirement.
If you'd like to understand about salary sacrificing, the bring-forward rule, the proportioning rule, quarterly event-based reporting, SMSFs, TBARs, SAPTO, TRIPs, defined benefit benefits, contributions caps, co-contributions, concessional-contributions, non-concessional contributions, catch-up rules, CGT relief, annual minimum pension payments, tax-deductible super contributions, preservation age, anti-detriment payments, deductible amounts, double contributions tax, re-contribution strategies, excess contributions, franked dividends, franking credits and lump sums, then you're in the right place.
Even if you have a financial adviser, SuperGuide Premium arms you with the necessary knowledge to ask the right questions, enabling more informed discussions with your adviser
You can trust SuperGuide to give you the full picture, and an independent perspective, so you can have confidence in planning for your retirement years.
Frequently asked questions
An annual subscription is $132 (including GST), or you can choose to pay month-by-month at a cost of $22 a month (including GST)
You can pay by debit or credit card (Visa, Mastercard and American Express) or PayPal.
Annual subscriptions can also be paid by bank transfer.
The ATO allow you to claim an immediate deduction up to $300 for books, periodicals and digital information that are "used predominantly for earning assessable income that is not income from carrying on a business".
If you are planning to claim a tax deduction for your SuperGuide Premium subscription, you will need to confirm your personal tax situation with your accountant or the ATO.
The ATO allows for general deductions as part of the expenses of running an SMSF, to the extent that:
- it is incurred in gaining or producing assessable income
- it is necessarily incurred in carrying on a business for the purpose of gaining or producing assessable income.
Subscriptions are included as examples of these expenses.
If you are planning to claim a tax deduction for your SuperGuide Premium subscription, you will need to confirm your personal tax situation with your accountant or the ATO.
Yes, you can login to your account and pause or cancel your subscription at any time.
Alternatively you can contact us and we can pause or cancel it for you.
Your account access will remain available until the end of that subscription period.
Yes. Changing from a monthly to an annual subscription is simple, and our payment system will also reduce the cost of your annual subscription according to the remaining value of your monthly subscription.
For example, if you have already paid for a month's subscription ($22 per month), and exactly halfway through the month you decide to change to an annual subscription ($132 per year), you would be credited $11 for the remaining value of the monthly subscription.
You would then be charged $121 ($132 minus $11) for the annual subscription.
Please note that the amount you will be credited will vary, depending on exactly when you change from monthly to annual subscription.
Click here to see more detailed instructions on how to switch from a monthly to an annual subscription.
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Just contact us through our support section, and let us know your membership number or email address.
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