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Aware Super appoints member strategy lead

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAR 2024
... reports to group executive for member growth Steve Travis. "Chris will drive through initiatives that will reimagine retirement for millions of Australians and continue our evolution to delivering streamlined and personalised member journeys," Travis ...

More than 40% of women unprepared for retirement: CFS

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAR 2024
About 44% of women are not financially prepared for retirement, according to Colonial First State. That's the key finding from the institution's consumer research, which showed a 13-percentage point gap compared to the 31% of men who feel the same. ...

Best default super funds revealed

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 4 MAR 2024
... 10-years ending January 31 were 7.9%, 6.2%, and 7.1% respectively. Meanwhile, TWUSUPER's Transpension led the default retirement products with returns of 9.6% and 7.2% over one and three years, respectively. Following its merger with Mine Super ...

Iress loses key wealth executive

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAR 2024
... Milliman as a director of insights and strategy, following five years at Challenger, where she served as senior manager of retirement income policy for five years. There, she covered a broad range of retirement income issues, including industry policy ...

Vanguard chief executive Tim Buckley to retire

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAR 2024
Vanguard chief executive and chair Tim Buckley has announced his retirement, set for the end of 2024, after three decades at the investment manager. Vanguard's board of directors is actively searching for Buckley's successor, considering both ...

Long-term cost of super early release to be $85bn: SMC

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAR 2024
... scheme, according to a new analysis by the Super Members Council (SMC). Using the Superannuation, Pensions, and other Retirement OUTcomes (SPROUT) model, the SMC estimates the cumulative long-term costs of the scheme to be between $75 billion and $85 ...

Annuities too expensive for most retirees: Research

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 29 FEB 2024
... would cost a retiree more than $500,000. In researching whether annuities could solve superannuation's need for better retirement income stream solutions, Rainmaker Information, supported by Plan for Life research, found the products are currently far ...

Vanguard Super hits $1bn, soft launches pension product

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 FEB 2024
... just over 12 months, while delivering the best-performing Lifecycle MySuper option of 2023 and quietly rolling out a retirement offering at half the cost of the incumbents'. Speaking with Financial Standard, Vanguard Australia managing director Daniel ...

TelstraSuper sweetens parental leave policy

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 FEB 2024
... full-time SG contributions for two years. The fund modelled the impact such a measure could have on a super balance at retirement and found that an extra two years of full-time contributions for a 32-year-old employee earning a full-time salary of $125,000 ...

Rest awards impact mandate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 27 FEB 2024
... energy, resource efficiency and electrification. "Through these investments, we aim to help our members grow their retirement savings with strong, long-term investment returns and also generate measurable positive environmental impacts," said Kiran Singh ...