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The problems with compulsory super
The system for ensuring that workers are paid their compulsory super is inadequate.
Executive chairman of Dixon Advisory
The system for ensuring that workers are paid their compulsory super is inadequate.
​Should investors make the most of the current super contribution rules before much tougher rules apply from 1 July 2017?
The government's super changes are complex and not easily understood.
Despite historic low interest rates, super funds and investors generally have fared well in 2016.
Make sure you check out the changes before taking any action.
US official rates could soon rise, so now's the time to review the merits of bond and other fixed interest fund investments.
If the US Federal Reserve raises rates, Australia may follow suit.
​Funding a comfortable retirement has always been a challenge for many Australians but now it's even more difficult.
Self-funded retirees with assets will be struggling to obtain after-tax investment returns higher than the new age pension asset test taper rate of 7.8 per cent.
​Superannuation fund investors will be hoping that the Treasurer delivers on this week's promise to present the super change legislation in parliament by the end of 2016.
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