Your super savings are performing strongly for you

Last financial year was extraordinary for the global economy and markets. Many governments, including ours, responded to the COVID-19 crisis by introducing income support schemes like JobKeeper, which aimed to replace workers’ lost income during lockdowns.

The development of an effective vaccine and easing of restrictions saw economies begin to reopen over the year. Economic growth was supported by Australians spending the savings they had built up during the restrictions.

These positive factors pushed the share market to historic highs and helped drive the strong performance most of our members have enjoyed last financial year.

Positive returns for all diversified options

We delivered positive one-year returns for members in all VicSuper diversified options. This included the default VicSuper FutureSaver Growth (MySuper) option, which returned 18.5%. The VicSuper Flexible Income Growth option returned 19.7%.

These are some of the highest returns we’ve witnessed in a financial year.

Superannuation is about the long-term, however. Importantly, over longer periods of 5 and 10 years to 30 June 2021, we continue to deliver strong, positive returns to our members. Our performance over the long-term is also above median versus peers in both our accumulation and retirement options^2,3.

Find out how your investment option has performed.

Strong performance helps our members retire with more

More than 80% of our accumulation members are invested in the VicSuper MySuper FutureSaver Growth investment option, which as mentioned had a very strong year, returning 18.5%.

Long-term performance is what is most important for our members’ super savings, so it’s good news that the MySuper Growth investment option returned 9.5% p.a. over 5 years and 9% p.a. over 10 years.

If you’re in our retirement strategies - your super savings are working hard.

All our retirement-focused investment options delivered positive returns for the year to 30 June 2021. Notably, our Flexible Income Growth option returned 19.7% p.a. and Balanced option returned 13.2% p.a. respectively. Our members can take comfort that they’re with a top-performing fund, with our Flexible Income Growth option a top-10 performer over 5- and 10-year periods.¹

Find out about how much you might need to retire, and how to start planning for your retirement.