A single renter needs $340,000 in savings to retire modestly, more than three times a homeowner, as Perth rents hit $700 a week and super gets dragged deeper into the housing fight.
Ryan Johnson
The collapse of Sydney builder Bathla Group rings a warning bell for those investing in high income-paying investments, collectively called ‘private credit’ funds. Here’s how to check if your funds are at risk.
Nick Bruining
More than half of West Australians cannot say how their super has performed as a worsening advice shortage leaves many without help.
While investors have been warned to be wary of private credit funds, there’s still reasonable money to be made parking your cash in bank accounts. You just need to know where to look.
The corporate regulator and many advisers are now warning investors to ensure they fully understand the significant risks of supporting high income-paying investment funds.
With new tax reform laws already passed, and others on the way, there’s been a significant increase in inquiries about a little-understood investment vehicle that’s been around for more than 100 years.
A super option can change from ‘balanced’ to ‘growth’ without changing risk, or move between risk bands without being renamed. Rest says members need a clearer system.
Super funds shrugged off war, inflation fears and market turmoil to return 9.5 per cent in 2025-26, extending their run of 9 per cent-plus gains to four years. How did your fund perform?
Australia’s biggest super funds have failed a call centre test, with AustralianSuper answering just one in 10 calls as pressure mounts on the Government to bring in mandatory service standards.
The money lessons children absorb at home can matter as much as the inheritance they eventually receive, as Australia enters a historic transfer of family wealth.
The super fund failed to report investigations into serious member issues, with the Federal Court finding the corporate watchdog’s oversight was seriously compromised.
Increasingly for many retirees the biggest risk isn’t market volatility, it’s running out of money. At the core of that challenge is one key thing. Without it, life will be nothing but a guessing game.
Amie Baker
The corporate watchdog said platform trustees failed members after repeated warnings, including one case involving a deceased adviser’s falsified signature.
Aware Super will take control of Keyton Retirement Villages after Lendlease agreed to sell its last stake, as big investors chase retirement living assets.
New ATO data shows WA women are retiring with median super balances far below men’s.
While only 15 per cent of pre-retirees expected to leave the workforce before 65, nearly two-thirds of people already retired had done exactly that, TAL research found.
It’s official. Size really does matter when it comes to superannuation, especially in the first few years of retirement as people start to draw down on their savings. But so do two other crucial factors.
Daniel Newell
Survey skewed to older investors finds one in two may sell assets before CGT changes
Australian investors are dumping ethical funds as a perfect storm of factors push them towards higher-return ‘unethical’ trades.
West Australians are caught in a retirement contradiction. Many think they need $2 million to retire comfortably yet are cutting contributions, checking their balances less often and doing less planning.
The risk is that taxation policy begins influencing investment decisions in ways that may not necessarily produce the best long-term economic outcomes for investors or for capital markets more broadly.
Robert Zammit
Labor may loosen super investment rules, but Jim Chalmers says members’ interests will remain paramount.
High demand in the economy is driving the high rental yields benefitting commercial property investors.
Kim Macdonald
Investors come unstuck when they step out with plans to re-enter at the ‘right’ time. It’s an understandable instinct. But markets don’t recover in a predictable way. Here’s what they should be doing now ...
Raymond Pecotic
