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ASIC confirms advisers can offer home equity access guidance

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 10 JAN 2023
... Additionally, the HEAS is often used in conjunction with other financial products, such as age pension entitlements and super pensions, or annuities, Miller continued.

Super heatmap findings garner mixed responses

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 16 DEC 2022
... flows as a measure of sustainability is misguided," Fahey said. "The purpose of the superannuation system is to pay out pensions in retirement, not hold on to the money in perpetuity. As the number of people with more superannuation as they head into ...

Global pension report reveals flight to safety

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 9 DEC 2022
... will also invest more in inflation-protected alternative assets. On that theme, the 2022 edition of the Global Public Pensions report paints a clear and stark picture of the fundamentally changed investment challenges facing the world's biggest asset ...

Delayed reforms put pensioners at risk: OECD

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 5 DEC 2022
The OECD Pensions Outlook 2022 says that continuing with reforms to asset-backed pension arrangements is essential to improving retirement outcomes and the sustainability of retirement incomes, thereby building more inclusive pension systems. While ...

Advising an ageing population

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 NOV 2022
... dramatically, and one big problem we've got is that state governments around the world, they're looking at state pensions and saying, 'oh well, we need people to work longer'," he said. This changes the parameters of a three-stage life, established ...

Goldman Sachs charged over ESG failures

JAMIE WILLIAMSON, RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 NOV 2022
... President Joe Biden, which directs the federal government to "identify and assess policies to protect the life savings and pensions of America's workers and families from the threats of climate-related financial risk." "The rule announced today will ...

Super is enabling private market democratisation: PGIM

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 18 NOV 2022
... comes to the less frequent pricing of private assets, for certain kinds of investors, such as defined benefit plans, pensions, or institutional investors, this is a feature of private markets, this is not a bug. Some investors like that private markets ...

Government eyes crackdown on super tax concessions

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 8 NOV 2022
... to be considered. "Mercer estimates that the tax concessions on a single $10 million SMSF could support 3.1 full Age Pensions," he said. He commented that multiple industry voices are backing the debate including former senior treasury official Mike ...

Australians worry about retirement - and maybe they should

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 8 NOV 2022
... fulfilled and comfortable life." Further, in another report titled ' You'll live longer than you think ', Optimum Pensions managing director David Orford added new retirement product innovation in Australia means retirees can look to the ...

Separation of ANZ P&I business completes

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 24 OCT 2022
Several years in the making, Insignia Financial has finally completed the separation of the pensions and investments business, in a first of its kind move. This is the first time a superannuation business has been separated from a big four bank, with ...