Today
Can I give my money to kids and still get the age pension?
Questions from parents asking about gifting money to children have been quite common this year, say advisers.
- John Wasiliev
- Opinion
- Opinion
What happens if you make an illegal raid on super to ease tough times
More SMSF trustees are being caught out by the ATO illegally accessing their retirement savings – this is how they’re dealt with.
- Meg Heffron
IFM snares $3b deal for European mega-airport
The Australian investment manager shrugs off Europe’s infrastructure blues, teaming up with France’s Vinci to win a Polish tender worth as much as $3 billion.
- Hans van Leeuwen
This Month
See which super funds rate the worst for retirement
Regulators have criticised the super industry for largely ignoring a new obligation to help members prepare for retirement.
- Hannah Wootton and Joanna Mather
Donating from super could raise $22b a year for charities
Making it easier and cheaper to leave super to charity could boost giving by as much as $22 billion a year, the peak philanthropy body has said, as it pushes for reform.
- Lucy Dean
- Exclusive
- Philanthropy
Superannuation has become a wealth vehicle: Keneally
Former NSW premier and senator Kristina Keneally has ruled out a return to frontline politics and says Labor’s plans to double charitable giving needs more work.
- Tom McIlroy
Super fund QSuper hands back keys to NYC office tower
QSuper has quit a big bet on Manhattan real estate as rising interest rates and falling vacancies spoil its global property interests.
- Jonathan Shapiro
- Opinion
- SMSFs
How to stop your super fund running out of money when you retire
‘De-risking’ your investment strategy is critical as you get older to retain your cash flow requirements and preserve the capital in your SMSF.
- Ben Smythe
Super fund CEOs put ASX on notice over workplace conditions
Industry super funds are using their $3.5 trillion asset pool to influence companies on decent work conditions, secure contracts and banning sexual harassment.
- Updated
- Hannah Wootton
- Exclusive
- Construction
Greenwash clash as funds hit Boral board over lowered carbon targets
A group of funds led by HESTA and AMP are demanding Boral reinstate its 2030 emissions reduction target. Boral says that would be akin to greenwashing.
- Hannah Wootton
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
This investment giant says you’re underplaying two risks
The CEO of a $489 billion pension giant says investors don’t pay enough attention to stagflation and geopolitics. In a complicated world, “Australia stands out” for investors.
- Updated
- James Thomson
$A plunge boosts foreign equity position, RBA finds
The banks hedge their currency risk so extensively that Australia’s improved ledger has little real benefit to them.
- Updated
- Jonathan Shapiro
- Exclusive
- Energy transition
Aware Super has $2b green plan to dodge energy grid logjam
The pension fund is backing a small-scale solar power and storage development venture that intends to avoid the roadblocks in the slow transmission build-out.
- Angela Macdonald-Smith
What a $3m retirement looks like in Australia
Whether it’s lavish overseas holidays with the family, or more modest travel destinations closer to home, there are retirement plans to suit every budget.
- Duncan Hughes
SMSFs forced to sell to cover $3m super tax: study
Farmers and small business owners were particularly likely to be forced to sell assets to finance the tax, the study shows, with 13.5 per cent of affected SMSFs too illiquid to pay the tax without sales.
- Hannah Wootton
What super funds spend on ads, donations, exec pay to be made public
APRA warned funds it wants to publish the data. It comes as, in the battle for members, funds launch bigger advertising campaigns and elite sport sponsorship.
- Hannah Wootton
- Opinion
- Retirement living
Why the first five years are the most important in retirement
Stopping work is not the finishing line, but the start of an exciting life chapter. There’s important psychological and financial prep work to do first.
- Tim Mackay
Crackdown for employers dodging super stapling laws
The government is also moving ahead with its plan to introduce payday super amid a flurry of law reform for the retirement income sector.
- Hannah Wootton
How ‘nation building’ can deliver competitive super returns
AustralianSuper’s Don Russell cites infrastructure as an area where the $3.5 trillion sector has helped modernise Australia without compromising on returns.
- Hannah Wootton
Affordable housing generates $45,000 benefit for each tenant: study
The upside of improved travel times, more leisure spending and better productivity from affordable housing schemes could provide a $64 billion boost to the economy, an EY study for Aware Super found.
- Hannah Wootton
