Retirement

Mortgage versus super - a common dilemma

In the mortgage versus super debate, the right strategy depends on your financial goals. Explore how to weigh the benefits of paying off your mortgage or boosting your super.

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 Mortgage versus super - a common dilemma

Outliving your savings

Concerned about outliving your savings? Discover essential tips to ensure your retirement income lasts as long as you do. Learn how to plan effectively with superannuation, Age Pension, and lifetime annuities.

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Outliving your savings

Why investing for retirement is different

When you’re still employed and earning a salary, there’s money coming in you can rely on. In retirement, in the absence of a regular salary you’ll need to find a new way to secure enough income to cover your living costs.

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 Why investing for retirement is different

How much do I need in retirement?

How much you need to save for a comfortable retirement is a question many of us ask. While we all hope for a simple answer, how much money you need in retirement differs for everyone.

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How much do I need in retirement?

Volatility Bites: How Retirees can Manage Jumpy Markets

The 2020 COVID-19 share sell off and recent equity market volatility shows just how quickly share prices can move.

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Volatility Bites: How Retirees can Manage Jumpy Markets

Do you have insurance in your lost superannuation?

Would you go out for a coffee and leave $10,000 on the table because you forgot? Of course you wouldn’t, and if you did, you would go back and get it! Then why are so many of us losing track of our superannuation accounts and potential insurance that they usually carry?

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Do you have insurance in your lost superannuation?
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Super reforms explained

If you are waiting for the superannuation reforms announced in the Budget to pass Parliament before working out what they mean to you, you might miss out on any opportunities available.

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Super reforms explained
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Government pulls back on proposed changes to super

The government has announced changes to three key 2016 Federal Budget proposals—the most significant being that it would not go forward with its proposal to introduce a $500,000 lifetime cap on non-concessional (after-tax) super contributions.

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Government pulls back on proposed changes to super