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Half of all SMSF assets in retirement phase

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 NOV 2013
... billion in retirement assets held by Australians. DEXX&R said the projected strong growth in SMSF assets funding a retirement income, coupled with retiree's diminishing appetite for risk and a preference for certainty of income as retiree's age, will ...

Government scraps Super Charter

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 7 NOV 2013
... Council was delivered to government on 5 July 2013. Members of the Charter Group included Challenger chairman, retirement income, and head of the Cooper Review, Jeremy Cooper; former Federal Court Judge Alan Goldberg; and former MLC chief executive Steve ...

Republicans vote that advisers have no best interest duty

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 1 NOV 2013
... official stakeholders involved in pension funds and retirement products, groups it regulates under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA). "The Department of Labor proposed a change to the definition of fiduciary under the Employee Retirement ...

Government must lift annuities impediments: ASFA

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 OCT 2013
... Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) has called on the Government to reduce impediments to the provision of adequate retirement income stream products such as annuities. ASFA acting chief executive Ross Clare said now was an "opportune time to consider ...

Cognitive function, consumption biggest SMSF risks

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 4 OCT 2013
... analysis demonstrates that retiree lifestyle choices have potentially much bigger impacts on how long their retirement income lasts than do investment returns or their capital's taxation structure. Human factor research adds to this concern over the ...

Whiteley and Brogden join forces to condemn CPA report

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 AUG 2013
... superannuation system, combined with the age pension, will deliver replacement rates of around 80 per cent of pre-retirement income for average earners with super delivering 50 per cent more income than the full age pension alone." They argued that people ...

ISN criticises "irresponsible" CPA super report

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 26 AUG 2013
... "This ignores evidence that household debt has increased in almost every advanced economy irrespective of their retirement income systems." Whiteley backed up these statements by quoting a Reserve Bank of Australia report from 2010 which said that the ...

Too much super diverted to pay personal debt: CPA report

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 26 AUG 2013
... Australia's superannuation policy is at risk of failing unless laws are introduced to quarantine savings for actual retirement income streams, warns CPA Australia in a major new report released to coincide with the 2013 federal election. Alex Malley ...

Abbott's PPL scheme to hit Australia's charities

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 23 AUG 2013
Federal treasurer Chris Bowen maintained his attack on the Coalition's proposed 1.5% levy on business that is intended to cover the paid parental leave (PPL) scheme, calling it "a retrograde step of quite enormous proportions." Speaking this morning ...

ATO launches superannuation video comp

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 AUG 2013
... is your money, so it's important to be aware that the super choices that you make now will help secure your retirement income in the years ahead. "That's why we want you to create a video to help educate young people that super isn't just something to ...