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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.
While taxable components do not change the tax payable by the superannuation fund, they may be a factor in calculating the tax payable on withdrawals from a super fund. Non-concessional contributions (also referred to as "undeducted" or "after-tax" contributions) are contributions for which no-one has or will receive a tax deduction.
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]
The Future Fund is an independently managed sovereign wealth fund established in 2006 to strengthen the Australian Government's long-term financial position by making provision for unfunded superannuation liabilities for public servants that will become payable during a period when an ageing population is likely to place significant pressure on the Commonwealth's finances.
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.
The Australian Retirement Trust (ART) is an Australian superannuation fund headquartered in Brisbane, Queensland. It has over A$300 billion in retirement savings under management and 2.4 million members, making it Australia's second-largest superannuation fund.
From that date, super funds must also credit employer contributions to a MySuper account, unless if the member has directed the trustee to do otherwise. Given that over 75% of employees stay with their employers’ default fund, it was expected that the majority of employees would be in a MySuper product from that date.