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Rice Warner questions super return targets

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUN 2020
After COVID-19 put paid to the 2020 return hopes of superannuation funds, research house Rice Warner has questioned whether return targets should be lowered. Rice Warner has questioned whether superannuation return targets should be lowered. As the ...

Taper rates need revamp

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUN 2020
... deferred lifetime annuity style products) and low-cost access to financial advice and information. This is according to Rice Warner chief executive and Actuaries Institute Public Policy Council Committee Andrew Boal in a paper titled 'Spending in retirement ...

APRA quashes super liquidity concerns

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2020
... would be closer to $27 billion as estimated by Treasury or $50 billion, which was in the range of estimates offered by Rice Warner and others. Byres said his view was that it is too early to tell, noting that so far the scheme's impact was "broadly" ...

Super not sacred: Rice Warner

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2020
Rice Warner founder Michael Rice has warned the superannuation industry to prepare for the government using the system as a means of repaying its stimulus debt, saying super won't be as sacred as it has been in the past. Rice has warned the superannuation ...

Please be aware of the nearest exit

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2020
... from the measures taken to stop the spread of COVID-19 will have a lasting effect. Michael Berg, senior consultant at Rice Warner, said the country needs to start thinking about an exit strategy. "We need to assume that we will have to come out of the ...

COVID-19 to push life premiums up: Rice Warner

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2020
Latest Rice Warner analysis shows the COVID-19 crisis is hitting an already suffering life insurance industry, hard. To survive, the industry will need to change. New analysis from research house Rice Warner reveals the life insurance sector will be ...

Super funds probed on liquidity, rental assistance measures

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 6 APR 2020
... drawdown estimates from early release vary from $27 billion, according to Treasury, to $40-$50 billion, according to Rice Warner. APRA has already asked superannuation funds to submit their in-house modelling on the extent of withdrawals (to March 1 ...

Is it time to lean on the Future Fund?

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2020
... release, whose estimates range from $27 billion, according to Treasury, to $40 billion to $50 billion, according to Rice Warner. "I don't see the need to drawdown on the Future Fund because governments can borrow so cheaply, for pretty much less ...

Super funds asked to model early release impact

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAR 2020
... will also shoulder extra work load. Treasury's estimate is that Australians will withdraw about $27 billion but Rice Warner believes the number could be much higher, in the $40 billion to $50 billion range owing to unemployment picking up since the ...

The week that was

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2020
... their superannuation, they would end up with $40,250 lower end balance of $383,049. COVID-19 to hasten merger talks Rice Warner believes the turmoil experienced across financial services will soon force small players in the super industry to accelerate ...