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Thinking about retirement
October 7, 2025Retirement Planning
We can help you plan for retirement and meet financial challenges when you’re retired. You may be at a point in your life where you’re thinking about retiring. This could mean you’re reducing your work hours or stopping work completely. There are many things to consider about life in retirement. Some of these things could...Read More
Plan for your retirement
September 29, 2025Retirement Planning
Planning to retire means considering the steps and decisions needed to get you to where you want to be. Think ahead to the kind of life you want to live and how you will support yourself when you’re no longer working. Work out how much you need to retire How much you need to retire...Read More
Retirement villages and occupancy arrangements
September 15, 2025Retirement Planning
What is a retirement village There are so many options when it comes to moving into a retirement village. Here we explain what some of them are along with the contractual arrangements you may have for each accommodation. A retirement village is accommodation: intended for people who are 55 years or older that may be...Read More
Know your new limits under the age pension tests
September 8, 2025Retirement Planning
Understand the latest indexed changes to the pension income and assets tests Receiving the full government Age Pension, or even a partial pension payment, can provide eligible retirees with a significant amount of income over time that can supplement income earned from other assets. Millions of Australians are eligible to receive Age Pension payments every...Read More
Planning to retire
August 19, 2025Retirement Planning
Before you retire If you’re planning to retire, you need to consider: your age, including if you have reached your preservation age your super how much tax you will pay on amounts you receive if good leaver conditions apply if you are part of an employee share scheme if the retirement capital gains tax concession...Read More
If retirement is just around the corner, the current financial climate may make you feel a little uneasy. Watching the markets fluctuate might leave you worrying about whether your superannuation will be enough to see you through. It’s not a time for hasty moves, though. If you are concerned a calm review of your current...Read More
How to shift into pension mode
July 21, 2025Retirement Planning
When and how you can access your super to start an account-based pension. If our working years can be regarded as the time when we aim to build up our superannuation savings, our retirement years can equally be regarded as the time when we aim to spend them. At least that’s the objective for most...Read More
Deciding when to retire is a big decision and even more difficult if you are concerned about your retirement income. The average age of Australia’s 4.2 million retirees is 56.9 years but many people leave it a little later to finish work with most intending to retire at just over 65 years.i If you’re not...Read More
Check your super When you start to plan for retirement, you’ll need to check your super: where it is how much you have whether you have lost or unclaimed super consider consolidating accounts where relevant that your details are up-to-date with the ATO and your super funds. You can do this in 5 simple steps...Read More
Work out how long your super or account-based pension will last There are many variables that come into play when calculating how long your super or account-based pension will last in retirement, and it can be challenging to figure it out alone. If you’ve transferred your super to a pension account already, then you can...Read More