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Speed bumps to annuities

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAR 2011
... forms under development including investment-linked lifetime annuities, which provide an income for life of the trustee or retiree who choose their preferred investment strategy. Also available globally are the deferred lifetime annuities, where the ...

ASIC starts shadow shopping

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 21 MAR 2011
The Australian Securities and Investments Commissions (ASIC) will look at the "quality" of retirement financial advice available to consumers in a new shadow shopping exercise that will start this year. ASIC will begin shadow shopping research to judge ...

Annuities help combat longevity risk: Cooper

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAR 2011
... annuities," said Cooper. Cooper spoke of the benefits of annuities as the new asset class, especially for advisers who have retiree clients, and suggested to advisers that to counteract this by 30 per cent of a retiree's asset allocation should be towards ...

Seniors question policy hold-up on retirement

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 25 FEB 2011
National Seniors Australia is tired of waiting for the government to make up its mind on retirement incomes policy and has demanded the government step up with some clarity on what the regulations will be. Speaking at the 2011 SPAA SMSF National Conference ...

SMSFs to hedge more against longevity risk

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 24 FEB 2011
... living longer than ever before, the sequence of market returns, rather than average market returns, can define what a retiree will have to live on. The performance of stock markets at the time an investor starts withdrawing from the fund will be a key ...

Adviser banned for life

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 22 FEB 2011
A financial adviser has been banned for life after using a retired faming couple's savings to fund a margin loan, ASIC said yesterday. Trevor Wayne Carll of Port Pirie, South Australia, worked for local planning business Bruce McDonald Investment Services ...

PC recommends govt-backed aged care equity release

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 FEB 2011
... PC said ways to address this are mechanisms such as compulsory aged care saving accounts or quarantining part of every retiree's superannuation lump sum benefit. But a funding option that has excited the PC the most is using equity release schemes even ...

Investors miss wealth signposts

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JAN 2011
Financial planners and their clients may be missing out on the 'wealth builder' signal, according to one financial planner, who recommends a three-pronged strategy to accumulate wealth. According to HLB Mann Judd wealth management partner Jonathan Philpot ...

ISN renews push for 12pc SG

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 18 NOV 2010
The Industry Super Network (ISN) has reiterated its call for the superannuation guarantee (SG) to be lifted to 12 per cent, and is hopeful the policy will receive unanimous approval in parliament. "There is broad community agreement in favour (of 12 ...

Longevity products in early stages

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 11 NOV 2010
In Asian and US markets, longevity and long-term insurance have found strong support yet in Australia, it is an area that remains relatively underexplored. "Longevity is something that is going to become more apparent, particularly managing longevity ...

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