DO NOT count on superannuation to provide the life of Riley when you retire.
Despite the sharemarket recovery last year, the average balanced super fund has
returned only 5.51 per cent a year in the past decade, or about 2.2 per cent
above inflation. This is below their target of 3 to 3.5
PLANS under consideration by the federal government to ban commissions for
financial planners and require them to act in clients' best interests have been
given a thumbs-up in a new survey of consumers. The survey, to be released
today, finds people will be more willing to use financial
