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Simpler Better Super booklet hits mail boxes

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUL 2007
... Costello. In a welcome break from tradition in financial services, the booklet contains no photographs of men in suits or retirees walking hand-in-hand along beaches. The Simpler Better Super campaign coincides with the Australian Taxation Office also ...

Sg CPF increases min member limits

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUL 2007
The A$96 billion Singapore Central Provident Fund (CPF) has increased the minimum sum (MS) that retirees must leave in the scheme to fund their pension. The new MS is now A$130,000, up 5 per cent, which the CPF said should be sufficient to ensure that ...

SEQUAL to boost reach through education

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 19 JUN 2007
... absence of consistent national regulation covering brokers, the RMC accreditation provides an additional safeguard to retirees who need confidence brokers will act with the same high standards that SEQUAL requires of its lender members.

Retirement banking comes of age

Retirees aged over 60 can now access their superannuation money easily and tax-free after ING Australia and ANZ launched a pension-linked cash account that works like an ordinary bank account. Called the ANZ Prime Cash Management Account (Prime CMA) ...

Deutsche Xenon leveraged hedge fund recommended

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 12 APR 2007
... investors with low marginal tax rates at the time of fund maturity (four years), such as self-managed super funds or retirees. All returns will be delivered to investors as a dividend at maturity, which will be treated as income.

New Jersey Govt spends teachers' future fund

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 10 APR 2007
... contributions. The New Jersey Teachers' Pension and Annuity Fund, which covers about 155,000 current teachers and 65,000 retirees, is part of New Jersey's public sector pension system, America's ninth largest, with reported assets of US$79 billion. However ...

Bad will hunting

... Trust's head of estate planning, Jennifer McMillan, said that the new legislation brings a lot of benefits to future retirees but has not necessarily simplified retirement strategies. For example, allowing those aged over 60 to draw down their funds ...

CPA Australia and SEQUAL team up

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAR 2007
... courses. The more education each intermediary has, the higher the quality of assistance being provided to Australian retirees."

Equity lenders prepare to take on reverse mortgages

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAR 2007
... first home buyers and families that want to trade up, but it will not be long before the product is being offered to retirees. Rismark International managing director Christopher Joye said the package being offered by Adelaide Bank was not targeted at ...

Lock up your gains: AUI

... consider a more conservative allocation to lock the gains they've made from the bull run in the past few years. "Many pre-retirees are, understandably, focussed on ways to gets as much money into superannuation before the June 30 deadline," "However ...