Money
Super & retirement
Analysis
Retirement living
Aveo offers alternatives to its 'Aveo Way' retirement village contract
Aveo is following moves by competitors Lendlease and Stockland to offer greater choice to the aged care market.
- by Rachel Lane
Latest
Superannuation
Royal commission prompts Australians to switch super funds
The banking royal commission is cultivating a super switching culture that could have a major impact on super fund memberships in the coming year, new research reveals.
- by Nina Hendy
Opinion
Superannuation
The easy way to consolidate your super
Increasingly myGov is the single source of truth when it comes to super.
- by Catherine Robson
Superannuation
Industry funds to auto-consolidate smaller accounts
Industry funds have agreed to co-operate in a move that would save the typical member with multiple accounts $260 a year.
- by John Collett
Pension
Mick, with a crook back, welcomes backdown on age pension
Workers in physically-demanding jobs are the biggest winners from the government's back down on increasing the age pension age.
- by John Collett & Peter Bateman
Retirement living
Win for common sense in Pension Loans Scheme rules
A new determination from the Department of Health will help consumers who do not want to – or can’t – borrow money to fund their aged care through banks or financial institutions.
- by Rachel Lane
Opinion
SMSFs
Should you be running a self-managed super fund?
Looking after someone else’s money is a responsibility that can turn unpleasant when relationships do too.
- by Marcus Padley
Analysis
Banking royal commission
Where to now for superannuation?
The biggest questions to emerge from the banking royal commission's look at the $2.6 trillion superannuation industry are for the trustees and the regulator.
- by John Collett
Analysis
Life insurance
How life insurance in super discriminates against women
Life insurance is another example of how the odds are stacked against women trying to save for retirement.
- by Elana Benjamin
Aged-care
You need to know how to avoid an aged care OMG letter
The rules around your assets need to be carefully managed.
- by Rachel Lane
Regulation
Women: we need to talk about your money choices
Kate Ritchie is one of the prominent Australians fronting a new campaign to get women thinking about their future.
- by Cathie Armour