• dustycups@aussie.zone
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    6 days ago

    Except everyone’s looking for ways to spend it science covid.

    There are ads on YouTube now for Self Managed Super Funds that allow you to gamble invest in stocks, ETF’s & I dread to think what. Prediction markets?

    Edit: super is still a pretty good idea.

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      For once the UK system looks ok in the world; our ’forced savings’ of ‘national insurance’ paid as a tax style deduction on wages can’t be touched till state retirement age, so you’ll get it when you retire and it’s paid monthly not a block. It used to be set at 65, now it’s on a rising rate for people retiring in the next years. I’m in a group that will need to be 67. It’ll be really basic, and a private pension is expected in addition if you want to have a nice retirement rather than just managing.

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        6 days ago

        Think of super as the same, but you employer matches your forced contributions and, up to a limit, voluntary ones.

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          Better then, for us to get an employer contribution, at least a visible one as they pay tax on employment as well, you go to a private scheme in addition to the state one, but then that’s where some people may not have that, and be reliant on state only.

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      Well it’s either you gamble it or you pay them to do it for you. If you just go s&p500 and vanguard world anyway might as well do it yourself and save some fees.