Moomin Valley

In Australia, if you are between the ages of 60 and 67 and you are retired, you can make concessional retirement contributions even if you a...

A year ago, I wrote a post about whether you should initially keep your superannuation in accumulation mode when you retire. I thought tha...

I heard yesterday that my employer approved my redundancy under this round of the  voluntary redundancy scheme . So, if everything goes smoo...

The university has reopened the v oluntary redundancy scheme after saying that there will be no further forced redundancies. It looks like t...

Back in April, I got a letter from the UK pension authority laying out the voluntary contributions I could make to get a UK pension. They se...

Here is another way of looking at the UK pension, which I have applied to contribute to. Our net worth not counting our house is about AUD...

  This was totally not on my radar. When procrastinating on Wednesday, I saw an article in the Fin Review about how Australians who had wor...

The latest episode . I met the director on Thursday. They didn't try to discourage me from doing it (I didn't expect they would). Th...

I now have a meeting lined up with my boss and discussed the whole thing with a colleague who took a similar package in 2020. He said that t...

VSS stands for "Voluntary Separation Scheme". The details were announced this afternoon. There are three weeks to apply for it fro...

So my employer announced a couple of days ago in the weekly newsletter that there will be a voluntary redundancy scheme. The details won...

We each have an employer superannuation fund. Moominpapa has Unisuper (Sustainable Balanced Option) and Moominmama PSS(AP) (Balanced). Each ...

So I wore this shirt to lunch with a couple of friends today: After the first friend left, I was saying how I hated buying clothes (because ...

The Australian r eports on the best performing super funds for 2024 . They focus on lifecycle, balanced, and sustainable options. I am sure ...

Intramonth, I've blasted through the transfer balance cap. This is the limit of AUD 1.9 million that you can transfer from an Australian...

Regal Investment Fund (RF1.AX) is doing a share placement and a share purchase plan (SPP). Under the SPP you can buy up to AUD 30k of shares...

I am thinking of setting up a transition to retirement pension (TTR pension). This allows you to receive regular payouts from your superann...

The accepted wisdom is that as soon as you retire in Australia and are over 60 years old, or as soon as you hit 65 years old even if you are...

The Australian reports on the performance of superannuation funds for the just completed financial year. This year, retail funds tended to ...

In January, I posted about how much of investment returns were being taken up to cover the effects of inflation . I fitted a quadratic curve...