Super funds want fees they pay to manage money halved, saying margins of 60 per cent are unacceptable.
The superannuation system is largely fair and it would be a mistake to change it on the basis of one or two examples of $100 million super funds, a top Treasury official said.
The hot property market drove increases in average wealth for home owners with a mortgage to $857,900 and almost $1.4 million for those who are mortgage free.
Peter Costello says dumping the tax exemption for super payouts he introduced, which critics now say is too generous, will be enormously complicated and generate little revenue.
Ultra-low interest rates are pushing superannuation funds into alternative assets in a hunt for higher returns.
There are ways to profit during a market fall, but they are high risk and not for the faint-hearted, writes Sam Henderson, who answers your super questions.
Superannuation fund trustees are failing to properly engage their members and encourage them to move assets into low-risk products at appropriate times, David Murray, the chairman of Australia's wide-ranging financial system inquiry, has said.
Trustees of self-managed superannuation funds crave control but lack refinement. As a result, their life savings are vulnerable.
Young people should be able to use their superannuation to buy a home and that home should, down the track, be counted in the assets test for pension eligibility.
Shadow Treasurer Chris Bowen has flagged superannuation policy changes that would make it easier for companies to make top-up payments to wo...
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