Brighter Super

Brighter Super, Australian superannuation fund

Brighter Super is an Australian entity specialising in superannuation (retirement funds) that markets its services through its website. Its offering is structured around accumulation accounts, pension accounts, and transition to retirement accounts, as well as a financial advice service and educational tools for its members.

Superannuation products

The fund makes several account types available to members: accumulation, transition to retirement, pension, and defined benefit. It also considers KiwiSaver transfers and offers resources to understand the responsibilities of a self-managed super fund. The website includes a specific section on protecting your account from fraud.

Insurance and cover

Brighter Super offers income protection, death and terminal illness, and death, terminal illness, and total and permanent disablement insurance. The page poses guiding questions about what insurance each person needs and explains how to make a claim, as well as detailing the death benefit.

Financial advice and education

The fund has a financial advice team and runs seminars and webinars on retirement. It offers a Super Health Check service that can be conducted over the phone, via video conference, or in person, aimed at reviewing account progress and retirement readiness. In education, it publishes materials such as "Let's Learn" and guides on what superannuation is, how much is needed, how to contribute, and when you can access your funds. David Koch appears as a retirement advocate in the fund's communications.

Investments and available options

The entity offers several investment options: MySuper, Growth, Balanced, Conservative Balanced, Indexed Balanced, Stable, and Secure. It publishes daily unit prices, a MySuper dashboard, performance graphs, and comparisons between options. It also provides information on asset classes, Queensland investments, a Queensland assets map, a summary of the sustainable investment policy, portfolios, and proxy voting.

Resources for members and advisers

Brighter Super has online tools and calculators, such as super consolidation, salary sacrifice calculation, insurance needs and premium calculators, an investment risk profiler, a retirement age calculator, and a retirement income calculator. For advisers, it offers registration, a business development team, frequently asked questions, and resources. It also publishes forms, info sheets, product disclosure statements, events, news, and links to annual reports, member outcomes assessments, retirement income strategy, and significant event notices.

Industry recognition

The website highlights that Brighter Super was recognised as the #1 super fund for Member Education and winner of the Super Fund of the Year award in the Member Education category at the 2026 Super Review. It also publishes a report titled "2025-26 State of Retirement in Australia", which describes a significant shift in retirement confidence and preparedness across Australia over a six-month period.

Access and contact

The entity serves members, employers, and advisers through its website, with differentiated access areas for each profile. Its postal address is GPO Box 264, Brisbane QLD 4001, and it offers a contact phone number and email for enquiries.

GPO Box 264, Brisbane QLD 4001 · Phone: 1800 444 396 · Email: info@brightersuper.com.au