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Cbus chief executive Kristian Fok.

Parties, picnics: Watchdog probes what Cbus spent on CFMEU

The financial regulator has launched another investigation into embattled superannuation giant Cbus over its expenses bill.

  • Sumeyya Ilanbey

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People at or near the point of retirement face sequencing risk.

How do we stop super becoming a trillion-dollar inheritance scheme?

In Australia, retirees get little guidance about how to use their super, and it’s leaving us with less money to spend in retirement.

  • Brendan Coates and Joey Moloney
New research suggests Australian rents and house prices could fall if the country adopted less prescriptive planning laws.

Lessons on the housing crisis from across the ditch

New Zealand offers ideas on how to cut rents and make homes more affordable. But there are also warnings about following its super-for-housing policy.

  • Shane Wright
A decade-old secret review by former ACCC chairman Graeme Samuel into Cbus was released on Monday.

Secret report reveals super fund’s cosy culture with CFMEU

A review into the culture of the construction industry super fund, commissioned in 2015, has finally seen the light, and it says the fund was too closely linked to the disgraced CFMEU.

  • Sumeyya Ilanbey
When it comes to actually claiming the insurance inside our super, it can become a bit of a mess.

The bureaucratic nightmare plaguing our super – and how to avoid it

Superannuation, and insurance inside super, are caught in a tangled web of rules that many people don’t know about until they’re trapped too.

  • Bec Wilson
Michael O’Connor, pictured this week, has defended his conduct on the board of First Super.

Union boss denies misusing position as super fund board director

Long-serving union secretary Michael O’Connor is facing a court-sanctioned ban as a super fund director after APRA sued him last year.

  • Sumeyya Ilanbey
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ASIC probes Australia’s largest super fund over death benefit payouts

The corporate regulator is investigating AustralianSuper for taking too long to pay out death benefits to beneficiaries of its deceased members.

  • Sumeyya Ilanbey
Try as you might, it can be hard to avoid being taxed on your excess super.

My super has reached $2m, can I dodge the transfer balance cap?

The transfer balance cap is a lifetime limit on the amount a person can move from super accumulation phase, and there aren’t many ways around it.

  • Noel Whittaker
The corporate regulator will enter into mediation with Cbus, chaired by Wayne Swan, avoiding a potentially protracted courtroom showdown.

Corporate cop enters into mediation with embattled Cbus

The construction sector superannuation fund has avoided a potentially protracted courtroom showdown that would have brought further scrutiny on its failure to promptly process the insurance claims of thousands of members. 

  • Sumeyya Ilanbey
Last year, banks enjoyed a ‘safe haven’ status in the market which saw their share prices surge. But this trend could reverse with likely successive rate cuts in 2025.

Rate cuts are on the horizon. Will it spell gloom for big banks?

Banks upheld their “safe haven” status in the market last year, and share prices surged – but could rate cuts reverse this trend and make it tougher for banks in 2025?

  • Cindy Yin

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