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Last day to vote in MAX Awards

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAY 2021
... No.1 ClearBridge - ClearBridge RARE Infrastructure Income Fund Fidante - Ares Global Credit Income Fund QSuper - QSuper Lifetime Pension AIA Australia - Crisis Extension Cover PUBLIC RELATIONS AGENCY OF THE YEAR BlueChip Communication Honner PritchittBland ...

Aussies regret ERS withdrawals: AIST poll

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAY 2021
... from lower levels of education, are currently unemployed or in low-income households. "The legacy of this will last a lifetime. Australia must turn its attention to helping rebuild those balances, to ensure dignity in retirement for those who were made ...

More flexibility for retirees

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAY 2021
... concessional personal deductible contributions will still be subject to the work test. The existing $1.6 million cap on lifetime superannuation contributions ($1.7 million from July 1) will continue to apply, along with the annual concessional and non-concessional ...

Retirees freed from legacy products

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAY 2021
... under a new measure. The government is introducing a two-year amnesty for individuals in market-linked, life-expectancy, lifetime pension and annuity products from any provider which were commenced prior to 20 September 2007, including self-managed super ...

MAX finalists named, voting open

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAY 2021
... No.1 ClearBridge - ClearBridge RARE Infrastructure Income Fund Fidante - Ares Global Credit Income Fund QSuper - QSuper Lifetime Pension AIA Australia - Crisis Extension Cover PUBLIC RELATIONS AGENCY OF THE YEAR BlueChip Communication Honner PritchittBland ...

Generation Life awards tech mandate

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAY 2021
... bonds. Financial Risk Solutions (FRS) will provide an investment administration solution for its new investment-linked lifetime annuity and existing investment bond business. The software, InvestPro, provides unit pricing, cash allocation and rebalancing ...

Disability income faces reckoning

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 30 APR 2021
... littered with legacy disability products deemed expensive and poorly valued. For example, products created in the 1990s with lifetime benefits had "disastrous consequences" and many of these policies are still in force charging large premiums. The current ...

FirstChoice dominates platform market

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 29 APR 2021
... (6.3%) and Macquarie Wrap (6.2%) are second and third most popular platforms, respectively. In Victoria, AMP Flexible Lifetime and Asgard are frequently used after FirstChoice with a 9.5% and 7.6% market share, respectively. In Western Australia, IOOF ...

Adviser numbers at five-year low

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 23 APR 2021
... favoured among advisers. Colonial FirstChoice tops the chart, housing 10,072 advisers with an 11% market share. AMP Flexible Lifetime (6876), Perpetual WealthFocus (5992), Asgard (5477) and BT Wrap (5208) make up the top five most-used platforms. Outside ...

Challenger to change annuity pricing

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 20 APR 2021
... Majority of the annuities sales came from domestic fixed-term sales ($1.39 billion) with small contributions from domestic lifetime ($107 million) and Japan MS Primary sales ($79 million). Sales of other products were $847 million. "Challenger reaffirms ...