For some people, accessing their super early for fertility treatments is their only chance to start or extend their family. And they need better protection.
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Inflation and wage rises used to shrink the repayment burden. We’re being granted mortgages as if they still will.
Is the budget really as “women friendly” as the Morrison government would like us to believe?
Allowing Australians to use their super to buy homes would most benefit those with the most super. They’re the least in need.
With younger people hit hardest by the pandemic’s economic impacts, it’s imperative to ensure an entire generation is not permanently disadvantaged.
The dark side of ‘financialisation’ is well-known. But it’s not all bad news.
Nothing, not even advertising will be permitted unless it is in the ‘best financial interests’ of members.
Putting more of each pay packet into super would widen the gap between high earners and low earners; between men and women.
Super helps fund homeownership, and homeownership helps retirees get the pension.
two views on increasing the super contribution
Michelle Grattan talks with Brendan Coates and Greg Combet about the plans to increase the compulsory superannuation contribution.
Most Australians get enough to live on in retirement. Some get more they get while working, but 30% get less, and boosting super won’t help them.
A leading-edge study conducted for the Retirement Incomes Review used Tax Office data to examine what happened to wages after firms paid more super.
The groundbreaking legal case has changed the game for how Australia’s $3 trillion superannuation industry invests, and how members are protected from climate risk.
To let others decide how our money will be used is an abrogation of responsibility.
Only 13 of the 44 economists surveyed want them to proceed as planned.
We give the biggest concessions to those least likely to need persuasion to save well.
Our super funds could have cleaned up when the market crashed 40% and then rebounded by about as much. That they didn’t says a lot about how hard it is to time trades.
At the margin, more compulsory super will mean less equity in homes and more borrowing for homes. Australia already has one of the world’s highest household debt ratios.
Fraudsters have managed to exploit security gaps in the federal government’s early release of super scheme. Here’s what to look out for.
It is normally a bad idea to let super funds borrow, but these aren’t normal times. There’s a (limited) case for allowing them to borrow from the Reserve Bank.
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Professor of Economics and Director, Tax and Transfer Policy Institute, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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