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Super inheritances and stepkids: How the law is quietly changing
2+ hour, 5+ min ago (117+ words) AFR Adult stepchildren can now qualify for death benefits even after a biological parent passes away. Here’s how to ensure your savings go where you intend. Super funds historically treated the death of a biological parent as instantly severing legal…...
Phil King’s retirement will cause banker nightmares
3+ day, 15+ hour ago (119+ words) AFR The exiting Regal investor is the brightest star in the sky for certain investment bankers. Investors in Regal Partners are no doubt glum with the shock news that lodestar investor Phil King will retire mid-next year. Regal’s share price…...
Planning to downsize? Don’t make these five super contribution errors
1+ week, 6+ hour ago (100+ words) AFR The contributions offer people closer to retirement a one-off opportunity, but it’s important to get it right. Downsizer contributions are special super contributions that can be made by older people who sell a home. They were introduced in 2018 and…...
Asset-rich pensioners face payment squeeze as deeming rate rises
1+ week, 1+ day ago (83+ words) AFR Pensioners and other welfare recipients with assets will have their payments tightened again next month with the deeming rate to be lifted by 0.5 per cent, the third successive increase since a freeze was lifted a year ago. The impact…...
Cbus pushes for government crackdown on adviser fees
1+ week, 4+ day ago (90+ words) AFR Cbus chief executive Kristian Fok is urging the Albanese government to demand more clarity from financial advisers on the fees they charge superannuation accounts, following a $1 billion surge in charges over the period from 2023 to 2025. In a letter to…...
How this couple turned $750,000 into a carefree retirement
2+ week, 2+ hour ago (87+ words) AFR New research shows there are four types of retiree – care-free, content, cautious and concerned. But for the happiest, mindset is more important than money. Retirees Rani and Ranbir Bedi say they have found the secret to a happy retirement....
Super funds don’t want to sell products – they’re selling retirement confidence
2+ week, 22+ hour ago (137+ words) AFR Protecting choice should not be misused as a reason to stall progress on our retirement system’s most urgent problem. Wednesday’s AFR View expresses caution over long-awaited reforms that will increase super funds’ ability to provide financial advice to their…...
Big super losing patience with Labor on financial advice go-slow
2+ week, 2+ day ago (100+ words) AFR Three of Australia’s biggest superannuation funds are pushing the federal government to accelerate the implementation of long-dormant financial advice reforms, placing renewed pressure on Assistant Treasurer Daniel Mulino to address the limited ways they can guide uncertain ageing members…...
AusSuper fights retirement flight with expansion into financial advice
2+ week, 3+ day ago (89+ words) afr.com AustralianSuper is preparing for a major expansion into wealth planning, landing a financial services licence and hiring the lawyer who recommended that Labor relax rules on what advice funds can offer members. The country’s largest manager of retirement…...
How to recover from a late career start to build meaningful wealth
1+ mon, 4+ day ago (113+ words) AFR People who spend long years in education and training face a compressed window to build wealth, but smart strategies can help them catch up. Medical professionals like Dr Will Cranwell have one of the shortest windows to build long-term…...