u/Arolasgaming

35M - Salary sacrifice into super or invest privately post tax?

I am not too knowledgeable so hopefully someone can help.

If my goal is to look out for future me and build more funds for eventual retirement.

I realistically have 30 more years of work (zzzzz)

But I want to ensure when retirement does happen I am retiring into a decent life.

My thoughts is to salary sacrifice 10-15% of my salary into super. It's pre tax, reduces my taxable income and I don't feel the hit as hard in my take home pay.

Obviously I have less flexibility with how it is invested and I can't utilise any wealth build for anything else. However, when retirement occurs (from what I understand) it's against a lower or no tax rate after 65.

The other option is to invest privately. I feel the hit harder as it's post tax. But I have more control and can utilise it for other opportunities if they come up.

I am not a stock broker, nor do I spend time constantly researching stocks and shit.

Is this a decent course of action? Yes? No?

Thanks for any advice.

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u/Arolasgaming — 6 days ago