Superannuation
Get a $500 Gift from the Australian Government
Earn under $49,488? You could get up to $500 from the gov via the super co-contribution. Just put in $1,000 after-tax into super and they’ll add 50%. It’s a rare 50% guaranteed return!
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Superannuation is Australia's pension funding system
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Save your retirement with the investment fees calculator
Did you know that a seemingly small fee of just 1% on your investments can result in you losing more than 20% of your balance over 40 years, and that a 1.5% fee can result in you being deprived of around 30% of your investment over the same time!
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The great Australian superannuation rip-off
Recently the Murray Report found that Australian’s are paying double the fees of other Western countries for their retirement. That’s costing us $20 billion dollars each year! Why are Aussies being so badly ripped-off? Well we could blame the superannuation funds for slugging consumers with hidden high fees
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Are you being screwed by your super?
Sit down, we have some really bad news for you. We hate to say it, but you probably ARE being screwed by your superannuation provider. How do you know? Well ask yourself this one question: What fees am I paying? If you can't answer this question then you&
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The best superannuation fund is..
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Watch out for the (not so) superratings
I’ve been perusing Superrating’s top 10 funds as you do on a Sunday afternoon. (Yep, I’m a money geek). I’ve found the results they provide to be at best a little simplistic and at worst misleading. My problem is that they only compare the fees that
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50% return guaranteed!
How you ask? From the superannuation co-contribution. How do I qualify? 1. Earn less than $49,488 2. Have 10% of your income from employment activities How does it work? The government put in 50c for every $1 you contribute this financial year, up to this maximum of $500. So
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Ethical Superannuation?
A friend asked me to look at www.australianethical.com.au for your superannuation, I wasn’t very impressed. Maybe ethical for companies, but what about retirees? 1 – Fees are too high : MySuper balanced option total fees are (1.134%). The lowest fees are Hostplus – indexed balanced option (0.03%