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Super funds should refocus on fixed interest

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 19 MAR 2012
... chief executive of QIC, said that rather than super funds thinking about fixed interest as an asset class for the post retirement portfolio, they should consider actively managing it for defensive purposes, for term seeking and hedging purposes for pre-retirement ...

Retirement not an automatic trigger for defensive strategies

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAR 2012
... options, according to a new white paper from Towers Watson. In the paper, "Finding the balance, strategies to improve post retirement investing", Towers Watson said that superannuation funds are being forced into the difficult position with members wanting ...

ASFA: Focus on the positives

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  THURSDAY, 10 NOV 2011
... ASFA's aims over the next 12 months, which he said focused on five main issues including setting adequacy and post retirement policies, helping consumers to understand the economic role of the super pool of savings, and trying to enhance public policy ...

Mercer plans for post FOFA advice dominance

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 1 SEP 2011
... retirement experts that predict advice failure." Long said Mercer will also work with dealer groups to create post retirement product solutions. "Either we build it or we give advice, but no one has focused on the ageing population and we have a floor ...

Fund manager recommends less defensive retirement

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUL 2011
... so that's why we've built these lower risk portfolios but you still have upwards of 15 or 20 years." A typical post retirement portfolio might feature 70% in defensive assets with the old investment mantra that you should hold your age in fixed income. ...

Former MilitarySuper chief joins HOSTPLUS

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAR 2011
... develop and enhance the products and services available to our members...especially those seeking to use pre and post retirement advice, pensions and other retirement products," said Elia. Watson has previously been deputy chief executive officer at ...

Speed bumps to annuities

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAR 2011
... longevity risk, said that since the Cooper recommendations threw the spotlight on longevity risk when developing a post retirement strategy, the issues surrounding annuities have emerged. "We hope to see these anomalies tidied up so that trustees have ...

SMSFs to hedge more against longevity risk

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 24 FEB 2011
... the time an investor starts withdrawing from the fund will be a key factor. When beginning to draw money out, post retirement, problems can occur if the markets are in decline, as Robertson explains. "If there is a boom then a bust at that time, no problem ...

Retirement platforms growing fastest

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUN 2009
... contributions being maintained by employers while the strength of retirement reflects the structural shift to post retirement." Rainmaker found Westpac/BT to be the largest platform group with 19.6 per cent of the market. Westpac/BT and AMP were found ...

Super assets to hit $2 trn by 2015: Deloitte

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUN 2009
... said Gale. The Deloitte analysis also attempted to predict growth rates by market segment in pre-retirement and post retirement assets over a 20-year period. The research identified self managed super funds (SMSF) and industry super funds would experience ...