This Month
Super for housing could only work for the fastest movers: experts
First home buyers struggling to save a deposit might welcome the Coalition’s promise to let borrowers tap their super for property, but economists say it will only push up house prices.
- Updated
- Lucy Dean
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 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
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
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
