I am a nearly 40-year-old female with over $154,000 in superannuation. That makes me an outlier. Measure after measure corroborates woeful facts that as a woman, I am expected to retire with about 45% less than men and that my balance should currently ... Read more

As chief risk officer for the nation's largest superannuation fund, there is one misconception about Paul Schroder's line of work that needs to be clarified. "I am the chief risk officer, not the chief risk reduction officer," he says. Too often ... Read more

The subject of life insurance does not spark interest for many, typically because it's perceived as boring, complicated and expensive. Over the last decade, however, the life insurance industry accelerated its efforts to shed this perception by ... Read more

Eight years ago, researchers from the University of Oxford analysed over 700 jobs to determine which will likely fall prey to computerisation. The famous research found insurance jobs (which had a good representation of life insurers) in the US are ... Read more

Eight years ago, researchers from the University of Oxford analysed over 700 jobs to determine which will likely fall prey to computerisation. The famous research found insurance jobs (which had a good representation of life insurers) in the US are ... Read more

When the 2019/20 bushfires ravaged the country, destroying over 3000 homes and 17 million hectares of land roughly two-and-a-half times the size of Tasmania, Aware Super chief of staff Debra Mika's response in coordinating organisation-wide efforts ... Read more

In the early 2000s, Melinda Howes left her executive role at BT Financial Group to try her hand at different things. The intervening 11 years saw Howes return to her actuarial roots by becoming a consultant; leading the Actuaries Institute as chief ... Read more

In May 2019, Sunsuper completed its fourth merger in two years - this time it integrated 74-year-old corporate superannuation fund CBH Super. Last year, we talked to Sunsuper, Kinetic Super and AustSafe Super about getting the difference between 'mergers' ... Read more

Few prominent names have pioneered superannuation in the aviation and engineering circles. Alex Ingram, a former Qantas industrial relations manager in the 1980s, broke the deadlock over the direction of super in the industry. Buck Brooksbank, an aviation ... Read more

A retiree walks into the inaugural Big Super Day Out event wondering if he is entitled to superannuation after working as a postie most of his life. Exactly how much, he didn't know. After volunteers identified him as a public servant under an old ... Read more