Pension account options

Retire how and when you want with a pension account to suit your lifestyle.

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A pension to suit your needs

Easy, tax-effective pension options to help you live the retirement you want.

Whether you’re easing into retirement or ready to say goodbye to working life, we have a pension option to meet your needs.

We offer three types of pension accounts:

Transition Pension

If you’re looking to access some of your super while you’re still working and want to ease into retirement.

Target Market Determination (TMD)

Control Pension

If you’re fully retired and want flexible, regular income and control over how your money is invested.

Target Market Determination (TMD)

Managed Pension

If you’re fully retired and want a stable, long-lasting regular income.

Target Market Determination (TMD)

For the details about our pension account options, including investment options, fees and costs, payment options, eligibility and more, read the Pension Guide.

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Questions?

If you have questions about us or our pension options, you can have a chat with one of our friendly super experts.

Transition Pension

Reduce your work hours without reducing your income or give your super savings a boost.

A Transition Pension can help you ease into retirement at your pace. With a Transition Pension, you can access some of your super while you're under age 65 and still working.

There are two ways you can use a Transition Pension to get the most out of your super:

1. Work less but keep the same level of income

If you're not ready to stop working altogether but want more time to do the things you love, you can use a Transition Pension account to supplement your current income. This will allow you to reduce your working hours without reducing your income.

2. Save more super

If you've reached 60 years of age and are still working, you can use a combination of salary sacrifice contributions and payments from a Transition Pension to grow your super faster. It's a great way to give your super a boost while you work towards retirement.

For examples of how the Transition Pension works, read the Pension guide.

Benefits of a Transition Pension

There are many benefits of starting a Transition Pension account with us, including:

  • access to some of your super while you're still working through regular pension payments.
  • continued retirement savings growth as your account stays invested.
  • tax-free payments.
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Transition to retirement webinar

If you're over 60 and still working, a transition to retirement strategy could help you retire how and when you want, It's also a great way to boost your super before you retire.

Control Pension

Flexibility and control over your retirement savings.

With a Control Pension, you’re in the driver’s seat. You decide how your retirement savings are invested and have control over how you receive pension payments.

To find out more about the Control Pension and our other pension account options, read the Pension guide.

Benefits of a Control Pension

There are many benefits of starting a Control Pension account with us, including:

  • regular and flexible income payments (generally tax-free from age 60)
  • control over how your retirements savings are invested
  • continued retirement savings growth as your account stays invested
  • tax-free investment earnings
  • the Retirement Bonus (if eligible)
  • flexibility to make withdrawals or change to a Managed Pension.
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Managed Pension

Our hassle-free pension option where we do the heavy lifting for you.

With a Managed Pension, we do all the work for you. We handle all the investment decisions and manage your account to deliver you a stable income over the long-term. All you need to do is sit back and enjoy your retirement.

To find out more about the Managed Pension and our other pension account options, read the Pension Guide.

Benefits of a Managed Pension

There are many benefits of starting a Managed Pension account with us, including:

  • designed to help provide retirement savings that last through your retirement (targeting regular income payments until age 90). It’s not guaranteed your savings will last until age 90
  • stable, fortnightly income payments, set by us and which are generally indexed to keep pace with inflation
  • generally tax-free pension payments and withdrawals
  • tax-free investment earnings
  • boost your retirement savings with a Retirement Bonus.
  • Eligibility criteria apply.

  • flexibility to access your super whenever you need it (however, this may impact your future income payments and how long your pension will last) or change to a Control Pension if your needs change.

The following tool will help you figure out how much income you could expect to receive from the Managed Pension in the first year. The tool only provides factual information and not general or personal advice.

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