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Pay off debt, or contribute to super?

28/8/2018

A major part of pre-retirement planning is focused on growing or increasing retirement savings using available cash flow. Two of the main ways to do this include paying down debt, or contributing to superannuation. To compare these properly we need to look at all of the factors that will affect this decision, such as:

Norway's sovereign wealth fund.

14/8/2018

In 1990 the forward thinking Norwegian government established the Government Pension Fund of Norway (also known as the Oil Fund) to invest the surplus revenues of the Norwegian petroleum sector. The purpose of the fund is to invest parts of the large surplus generated by the Norwegian petroleum sector, mainly from taxes of petroleum companies but also payment for licenses to explore for oil as well as the State’s Direct Financial Interest and dividends from the partly state-owned Equinor. Current revenue from the petroleum sector is estimated to be at its peak and is envisaged to decline in the future decades. The Oil Fund was established to counter the effects of the forthcoming decline in income, as the oil reserves eventually run out completely, and to smooth out the disruptive effects of highly fluctuating oil prices.

Pay off debt, or contribute to super?

Norway's sovereign wealth fund.

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