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Wealth

Superannuation & SMSFs

This Month

A Senate Economics Committee interim report says borrowers should be able to access their super.

Let first home buyers drain super for property: Senate committee

First home buyers should be able to withdraw all their retirement savings to buy a house, a Coalition-dominated Senate committee has found.

  • Lucy Dean
ASIC’s Simone Constant says super funds found evidence of fees being charged but no service delivered.

ASIC finds super funds still charging fees for no service

Super funds are obliged to ensure members are only charged for financial advice they actually receive but not all are doing so.

  • Michelle Bowes
Google’s Cloud

615,000 customers locked out of super accounts by Google fail

The super fund has blamed Google’s cloud computing services for the prolonged outage.

  • Lucy Dean

April

Nick Moir

Super fund sued over customers’ unpaid penalties in ‘unique’ case

The claim that ESSSuper left customers more than $40 million out of pocket could prove a test case on how rigorously the $3.6 trillion industry is held accountable for meeting its trustee duties.

  • Hannah Wootton

March

Australians have focused on the accumulation phase of supperannuation.

Superannuation funds have quietly started paying retirement ‘bonuses’

Super funds are paying out millions of dollars in retirement “bonuses”. But what are they, and does your fund offer one?

  • Updated
  • Lucy Dean