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Aussie super funds lead pension growth

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 SEP 2008
Australia's retirement funds including State Super, Australian Super, UniSuper and the Future Fund are some of the fastest growing in the world, rising at an average compound annual growth rate of 17 per cent. The Pensions & Investments/Watson Wyatt ...

Record fall in super fees

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 1 SEP 2008
... results are that Workplace Super funds now average 1.41 per cent, Personal Super funds average 2.03 per cent and Retirement funds average 1.86 per cent. The overall weighted industry average is 1.36 per cent," said Keevers. These fee benchmarks mean ...

UBS and Genworth tap income-for-life market

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 15 FEB 2008
... introduce a guaranteed income for life option for 401(k) participants that will be made available via UBS' target retirement funds and other investment options. The venture is expected to take off by the end of March this year. "The benefit will be designed ...

The golden age of SMSFs

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2007
... aging population all institutions needed to comprehend and position themselves in the SMSF sector to capture post retirement funds. "The post retirement sector, with the five year transitional rule, a large part of the population in their 50s, the growth ...

Brakes on reverse mortgages

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 NOV 2007
... billion in 2011, amounting to a growth rate of 15.5 per cent from 2007. Ingemarsson said wide spread insufficient retirement funds, rising property values and an aging population with encouraging health allowing them to be more active in their retirement ...

A third of over 55s will never retire: Citibank

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 17 SEP 2007
... to the contrary, though, the baby boomers don't feel quite so secure. While 58 per cent are confident in their retirement funds, 37 per cent feel uncertain about their nest egg lasting the distance. There are doubts, though, about whether retirees will ...

Super fund members want a safe bet

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 6 SEP 2007
Super fund members do not want to expose their retirement funds to high risk investments with 42 per cent preferring a combination of all risk classes and only 15 per cent preferring a higher risk investment, according to a Quadrant survey. Tasmanian ...

Stable funds bad defaults: ICI

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUL 2007
The US Investment Companies Institute (ICI) has called for retirement funds to be invested to achieve growth, and dismissed calls from the US life insurance industry that capital stable funds be allowed as default investment choices in 401(k)s. "Stable ...

Retirement banking comes of age

... Pensioners and Superannuants Association (CPSA) of NSW welcomed the initiative. "It certainly would make access to retirement funds easier and that's a good thing. Obviously, if you can get your money out of your bank account, why shouldn't you be able ...

Super fees jump triple inflation

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 21 MAY 2007
... performance results have distracted attention away from the dramatic changes occurring within superannuation and retirement funds and how those changes are causing fees to rise at nearly three times the rates of inflation," said the report's author and ...