What? All I need to retire on is $88,000?
New calculations reveal you only need a super balance of $88,000 when you retire. Who’s saying this?
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New calculations reveal you only need a super balance of $88,000 when you retire. Who’s saying this?
The most recent APRA heatmaps show many Choice super products are underperforming, which will leave their members with less in retirement.
It only takes a few people to disrupt things for everyone else and that appears to be happening at the moment with superannuation.
There are 370 people under 30 with more than $2m in retirement savings, leading to calls to ban extremely high superannuation balances.
Shadow Treasurer Jim Chalmers has pushed back on calls to cap super balances at $5 million, saying that reforming superannuation taxes is not a priority.