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Superannuation in Australia, or "super", is a savings system for workplace pensions in retirement. It involves money earned by an employee being placed into an investment fund to be made legally available to members upon retirement. Employers make compulsory payments to these funds at a proportion of their employee's wages.
AustralianSuper is an Australian superannuation fund headquartered in Melbourne, Victoria.It is an industry super fund, and so operates through a mutual fund structure.. With over A$ 340 billion of retirement savings under management and more than 3.4 million members, AustralianSuper is the largest superannuation fund in Australia and the sixteenth largest pension fund in the world.
Rest Super (formally Retail Employees Superannuation Trust) [3] is an Australian industry superannuation fund established in 1988. It is one of Australia's largest superannuation funds by membership, with around 1.9 million members as at June 2022. Rest currently manages more than $80 billion in funds. [2] [4] [5]
As at July 2018, the major retail super funds were: AMP Flexible Super; Bendigo Smart Start Super (Bendigo Bank) Mercer; ING Direct Living Super (ING Australia). In December 2015, ING had AU$1.6 billion in super funds under management, with 34,000 active superannuation accounts in 2014. [4] MLC Masterkey Super (National Australia Bank)
In the 2016 federal budget, the government proposed to abolish, effective 1 July 2017, the exemption for investment income on a retirement phase account if the balance in the account exceeds $1.6 million. Where all the members of a fund are retired with balances below this threshold then the whole of the fund's income is tax exempt.
1 January 2013: First date for lodgements of MySuper applications 14 February 2013: Sunsuper is the first superannuation fund awarded a MySuper authority 28 June 2013: Final regulations released 1 July 2013: MySuper products can be launched 1 January 2014: Only authorised MySuper products can receive default super contributions from an employer ...
Industry funds collectively manage the retirement savings for 13 million accounts. All industry funds are governed by trustee boards, with board appointments from employers, trade union representatives, and employees from the relevant industry. Most industry funds are member of the peak body Industry Super Australia. [1]
Created in 1989, it has become one of Australia's largest super funds. As at 2019, MTAA Super has more than $12 billion funds under management and represents more than 200,000 members and more than 50,000 active employers. [1] MTAA Super is a public offer fund and allows membership to all Australians.