Confused about super fees? You're not alone.BY DANIEL SHRIMSKI | FRIDAY, 18 OCT 2024 3:15PM Just last week, I met a professional woman in her early 40s who told me she had spent over an hour trying to find out what fees she pays on her superannuation account... she eventually ... Upgrade your subscription to access this article
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Try finding a relevant PDS on any financial services website. It is near on impossible. Then, when you do, they range from 90 to 300 pages plus depending on the product. Once you have the PDS, the next step is to toil your way through it trying to work out what is the relevant bits, and this is supposed to be a document that assists a consumer make an informed choice regarding the financial product they wish to use.