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Super fund performance: Monthly returns to March 2025

Super fund performance reckoner: Monthly returns for 5 investment categories

The Age Pension when living apart: What you need to know

Super pensions: Trends in payment frequency, flexibility, fees and more

What’s the Carer Allowance and am I eligible?

How myGov can help you keep track of your super

Choosing a super fund: Does size really matter?

Which asset classes are popular with SMSFs?

Super fund mergers: What does it mean for members?

How carry-forward (catch-up) super contributions work

Australian income tax brackets and rates (2024-25 and previous years)

Federal Budget March 2025 overview

Age Pension rates (March 2025 to September 2025)

How much super do I need to retire?

A retiree’s dilemma: Pay off the mortgage or preserve super?

SMSF returns are competitive with large funds

Which are Australia’s largest super funds?

Age Pension calculator (March 2025 update)

Am I eligible for the Age Pension?

What to do if the market tanks and you’re retired, or close to it

How to plan for your retirement

Tips to boost your super in retirement

Best performing super funds: Growth category (61–80%)

Super fund performance over 32 calendar years (to December 2024)

Super news for January 2025

What are the buy/sell spreads charged by my super fund?

What are unit pricing and crediting rates and why do they matter?

How to measure the financial impact of delaying retirement

What is the Medicare Safety Net and am I eligible?

Victorian Seniors Card: Benefits, discounts and how to apply

QLD Seniors Card: Benefits, discounts and how to apply

ACT Seniors Card: Benefits, discounts and how to apply

Tasmanian Seniors Card: Benefits, discounts and how to apply

NT Seniors Card: Benefits, discounts and how to apply

SA Seniors Card: Benefits, discounts and how to apply

WA Seniors Card: Benefits, discounts and how to apply

Super news for December 2024

NSW Seniors Card: Benefits, discounts and how to apply

Commonwealth Seniors Health Card: Eligibility and how to apply

When can I access my super? All conditions of release explained

Q&A: Can I move my pension to another provider?

Super and pension fund performance: Where does your fund rank?

How superannuation works: Super for beginners guide

Super news for November 2024

Modern retirement modelling: Increasing confidence in retirement planning

Super funds of the year awards: Best super funds for 2024-25

Pension fund of the year 2024-25: What makes a winner?

Q&A: I’m 63. Can I start a transition-to-retirement pension if I quit one of my jobs?

How to afford a ‘comfortable’ retirement with less super

Making superannuation contributions: Super for beginners guide

Super news for October 2024

SMSF insights 2024: Div 296, Superstream, ETFs and more

How the government co-contribution scheme works (including calculator)

10 points to check on your annual super fund statement

Super news for September 2024

Super fund fees and charges you need to know about

Lifetime estimator calculator

APRA’s performance test: Platforms miss the mark

The big picture: Focus on super’s long-term returns

Australian independent financial advisers: National list

Q&A: How do I ensure a lump sum is taken from the right pension account?

Super news for August 2024

Top-performing sustainable super funds (to June 2024)

Top 10 Balanced super funds ranked by risk and return

Super news for July 2024

SMSF statistics: 1.1 million members with $869 billion in super

What type of people have SMSFs?

How to consolidate multiple super accounts

What is the retirement age in Australia?

Income tax calculator (2023–24 and 2024–25)

How superannuation is taxed: Super for beginners guide

How LISTO works (Low Income Superannuation Tax Offset)

What to do if your employer doesn’t pay your super

Selecting your super fund: Can I make the choice?

What age can I access my super (Preservation Age)?

Quiz: Planning for retirement

Super news for June 2024

Q&A: If I’m retired can I leave one of my two funds in accumulation?

Case study: Combining new retirement products to maximise retirement income

Women and super (Part 1): How to grow your super in the early and middle years

What do the 2024 tax cuts mean for your super contributions?

Federal Budget May 2024 overview: Superannuation and retiree announcements

Super news for May 2024

Q&A: I’ve used the bring-forward rule, so when can I make more non-concessional contributions?

Super news for April 2024

Q&A: What is asset segregation in pension phase?

Super news for March 2024

Protecting your super from cyber attacks and scams

How investing in infrastructure adds to your super returns

How to make your super more socially aware

Super news for February 2024

Getting to know your super fund and what it can do for you

9 investment risks and how they can affect your super

Risk profiling and your investment choice

List of APRA-regulated superannuation funds

Q&A: How do we structure our SMSF to collect rent as a pension if my wife is under preservation age?

Super news for January 2024

Should your life and disability insurance be inside super?

Insurance inside super: A definitive guide

ATO SMSF supervisory levy: Cost and guidelines

What are the key differences between SMSFs and public offer funds?

Webinar: Super strategies for your SMSF

What are MySuper products, and which super funds have MySuper products?

Boosting your super balance with Grow My Money

Can I access my super? FAQs about conditions of release

Q&A: Can an SMSF invest on a “tenants in common” basis in commercial property, funded by a mortgage?

What’s the Carer Payment and am I eligible?

How to use the Moneysmart Superannuation calculator

YourSuper comparison tool review

3 steps to making a complaint about your super fund

Who to turn to if you have a problem with your financial adviser

What concession cards are available for seniors and pensioners?

Tips to help your super last longer

Q&A: How does a transition to retirement pension impact CGT on property assets?

What age should I retire?

Healthy eating in your 70s and beyond

Q&A: Can we use the money from our SMSF for personal use upon reaching pension age?

Q&A: Can I own an overseas house in my SMSF?

What are the accumulation and retirement phases of super?

Quiz: Age Pension rules

Centrelink’s Payment and Service Finder: How it works

What is the Age Pension age?

How to keep your immune system strong this winter

Commonwealth Seniors Health Card Q&As: Eligibility and completing forms

Independent financial advisers: Canberra and ACT

Independent financial advisers: Adelaide and SA

Independent financial advisers: Brisbane and Queensland

Independent financial advisers: Perth and WA

Independent financial advisers: Hobart and Tasmania

Independent financial advisers: Melbourne and Victoria

Independent financial advisers: Sydney and NSW

What is a target market determination and why should you care?

How separation and divorce affect the Age Pension

Life insurance through super: A definitive guide

Early release of super on compassionate grounds

Early release of super due to severe financial hardship

Accessing super: Reaching age 65

How to read a super fund PDS

Federal Budget May 2023 overview: Superannuation and retiree announcements

Latest Choice super heatmap shows progress but fees remain high

Greenwashing: Do your super fund’s credentials stack up?

Will overspending delay your retirement?

Q&A: Does a property owned by an SMSF need to be sold upon retirement or can we take possession?

How super fund fees impact your net returns

How to compare super funds in 7 easy steps

Q&A: Do SMSFs perform better than industry funds?

The 7 biggest super mistakes – and how to avoid them

What is an investment-linked annuity?

Q&A: Can you transfer an investment property into an SMSF?

Can my SMSF loan money to me or my business?

Low Income Tax Offset (LITO): How it works

What to teach your (big) kids about super

Tax returns in retirement: Do I need to lodge one?

The importance of the 10/30/60 Rule to your retirement income

Financial advice: We want it, but cost is an issue

What are average super fund fees?

Is an SMSF right for you?

What are the different types of super funds?

What are the super and Age Pension rules for same-sex couples?

Market volatility and super: How to resist the itch to switch

Early release of super for illness or injury

Latest MySuper heatmap highlights best and worst performers

How to change super funds (in 5 easy steps)

Indexing options in your super fund: Pros and cons

How much super do you need to set up an SMSF?

Women and super: Budget snapshot outlines the challenges

How to find your lost super

Federal Budget October 2022 overview: Super and retiree announcements

What are the Age Pension residency rules?

Do you know what your super fund is invested in?

Unlisted assets: What are they and why is my super fund investing in them?

What the new Retirement Income Covenant means for you

Minister promises no more regulatory shock for super

Members benefit from more superannuation board diversity

What should the federal government’s super and retirement planning priorities be?

Planning for cognitive decline

SMSF pensions: Planning your pension properly

Quiz: SMSFs for beginners

Why super funds diversify and what you can learn from it

The power of compound interest

The Sharpe Ratio: Risk-adjusted returns and your super

Is it time to change your super investment option?

Income support Q&As: How will super affect my disability support pension and other benefits

How to benchmark your super fund

Age Pension Q&As: Minimum drawdowns and the Age Pension

Account-based pensions Q&A special (January 2022)

Super funds with the lowest fees

What are defined benefit super funds?

Super news for November 2021

SMSF Q&A special (November 2021)

Your future now stapled to your super

Video: Explainer on the legacy retirement income products amnesty

Tips for writing an advanced care directive

Member services: What separates the best super funds from the rest?

Super news for March 2021

Super fund fees: Do lower fees mean better net returns?

Super news for February 2021

Super news for January 2021

TPD insurance through super: A definitive guide

Income protection insurance through super: A definitive guide

How your super fund works and who’s who in your fund

Change your mindset: Ways to deal with boredom in retirement

Key observations from the Retirement Income Review

Super news for November 2020

Super news for October 2020

2020 Federal Budget overview: Super, tax and related announcements

Perspectives on retirement

How to invest your superannuation: Super for beginners guide

Super news for September 2020

Video: Pros and cons of SMSFs

Super news for August 2020

Best performing super and pension funds: Understanding the 5 risk categories

Super news for July 2020

Video: What is Personal Capital?

Video: Wellbeing in retirement

Super news for June 2020

Video: We need to talk about Mum and Dad

What is a Longevity Plan, and how do they work?

SMSF Q&As with the ATO: COVID-19 special

Super news for May 2020

What are the 3 stages of ageing?

Super news for April 2020

How can you plan your income needs in retirement?

Financial advisers give tips on preparing for retirement

Introduction to aged care

How to change your investment option: 6 points to check before you switch

Super news for August 2019

2018-19 year in review

Protecting Your Super package: What you need to know

2019 Federal Budget overview: Super, tax and related announcements

SMSFs: Top 10 alternative investments

Super’s next shake up? Productivity Commission gets tough

Adjusting to retirement: 8 factors that can help

Renters Beware: How the pension and super could leave you behind