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Does Australia’s Retirement Income System Provide Adequate Retirement Outcomes?

May 11, 2021May 10, 2021 by Travis Huynh

Will I have enough money to retire? It’s not a question that many people think about until they near the end of their working lives. The question of how much to retire with is an important one. Join Travis as he analyses the retirement income system in Australia and compares its effectiveness with the situation in other countries.

Should the Superannuation Guarantee increase to 12%?

March 15, 2021March 15, 2021 by Travis Huynh

The Federal Government has previously committed to raising the Superannuation Guarantee to 12%. Join Travis Huynh as he investigates the macro-economic trade-offs associated with such a change.

Budget 2017: Housing affordability

May 14, 2017 by Bilal Ibrahim

Housing affordability is the hot-button issue of Australian politics at the moment. Did Scott Morrison’s much-vaunted Budget make it easier for you to buy a house? Bilal Ibrahim explores what you need to know.

Superannuation – A disconnect between mind and matter?

January 13, 2017April 15, 2016 by Solomon Zhang

Solomon Zhang examines the cause of the incongruence between thought and action in Australian attitudes towards superannuation.

The disconnect between economic policy and thought

February 21, 2016September 7, 2015 by Pat Healy

Pat Healy discusses the log jam of economic decision making in Australian politics.

Pensions: The need for present action to prevent future problems

February 20, 2016March 4, 2015 by Catherine Paquette

Retirement seems a long way off for a uni student. But if we don’t reform now, what will your pension look like when you retire? Catherine Paquette explains.

Super leagues not playing on a level field

February 20, 2016February 17, 2015 by Kathryn St. John

Why are Australian superannuation fees so high? Kathryn St. John unpacks a question that is more complicated than first appears.

Not so super

February 21, 2016October 13, 2014 by Olivia Robins

Olivia Robins challenges whether we are actually better off with less superannuation.

Self-managed super funds: a blessing or a bomb?

October 12, 2019March 22, 2014 by Yannis Goutzamanis

I remember sitting in a finance lecture on superannuation, presumably paying little attention, until the lecturer suddenly decided to embark upon a tangential rant. Being an avid listener of talkback radio on the long drives to and from Monash University, Clayton, I had acquired a taste for the rhetorical art-form commonly known as ‘the rant’. I listened keenly.

No! No! Don’t stop reading.

Seriously, this is important.

Yes, I know that many readers of this site are below thirty, so that an article on superannuation has about as much appeal as a discussing aged accommodation and colonoscopies.

But it is not your superannuation I want to talk about. It is your parents’.