Five superannuation moves to add almost $1m to your retirement balance
by Jessica Penny · Australian Financial ReviewJessica PennyWealth reporter
Oct 30, 2026 – 4.00pm
In the aftermath of the global financial crisis, and aged in her late 40s, university professor Kerry Carrington made an unusual choice: she dialled up the risk in her superannuation about as far as it could go.
Not only were investors badly bruised and panic-stricken savers were retreating to cash, but Carrington was about to enter what would probably be her last decade of work – a time when most people become more conservative with their investments.
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Jessica PennyWealth reporterJessica Penny covers wealth and personal finance in The Australian Financial Review’s Sydney newsroom. Email Jessica at Jessica.penny@afr.com
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