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TPD insurance in super: How much is enough? (including calculator)
Permanent disability insurance can provide financial security for you and your family if an illness or injury prevents you from going back to work.
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How working affects your Age Pension and tax (including calculator)
Working while receiving the Age Pension could improve your retirement income but after tax and a potential cut to your entitlements, is it worth it?
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10 retirement mistakes you don’t want to make
There are lots of decisions to make as you prepare for retirement, and potentially large sums of money involved, so it’s important to avoid costly mistakes.
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What I would do differently now: Retirement plans are shifting with the times
It’s been an eventful few years for financial markets and household budgets, prompting a rethink of retirement plans for many pre- and post-retirees.
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How the rich invest
Wealthy Australians have surfed the wave of strong investment returns in 2025, with a disciplined approach and a growing appetite for alternative investments.
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Super funds of the year awards: Best super funds for 2025–26
While returns are important, they are not the only ingredient in a top super fund, as these annual awards show.
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Your SMSF calendar for 2026
Forewarned is forearmed, as they say, so why not download our 2026 SMSF calendar to ensure you don’t miss any crucial dates, deadlines or opportunities in the year ahead.
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Diversification and your SMSF: Why and how to do it
Diversifying your portfolio is a golden rule of investing and a vital task for your SMSF as it can help reduce risk and smooth investment returns.
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Where is technology for SMSFs headed?
Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly becoming a tool in many people’s lives and is already making inroads in SMSF investing and administration.
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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.
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Making super contributions after age 60: Even in retirement
If you have cash to spare or receive a windfall, there are many ways you can add to your super later in life, even if you are no longer working.
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Super pension funds put to the test
A new consumer-friendly review of pension funds reveals which funds are ticking all the right boxes.
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3 very different types of ‘retirement’
Today’s 60- and 70-somethings are reinventing retirement, easing into it with a focus on finding meaning and purpose in flexible part-time work, volunteering and new activities.
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How new ‘best practice principles’ could improve your retirement incomeÂ
Super funds are being urged to provide their members with retirement products that offer income for life, along with better retirement tools and communication.
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The taper trap: Super and the Age Pension assets test
A quirk of our retirement income system can leave retirees with middling a super balance worse off than a full Age Pensioner. But there are ways to increase Pension entitlements
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Aged care: Guide to self-managing home care
A shake-up in the way aged care in the home is provided and paid for is designed to streamline the system, but the jury is still out.
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Super fund performance reckoners: Monthly returns for 5 investment categories
In our reckoner below you can view the median monthly investment returns for 5 superannuation investment options going back to January 2016.
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Super fund performance: Monthly returns to October 2025
Super funds continued their run of strong monthly returns in October, setting the scene for a happy ending to the 2025 calendar year.
