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Cbus Super chief to exit

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2020
... In recent months, Atkin has also spoken about the flaws in CIPRs legislation and the fund's stance that retirement products must give trustees the discretion to tailor them for their members' needs. "Cbus members fought for and won the right ...

US manager eyes Aussie retirement income

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 OCT 2019
... heads and fixed income heads have been siloed from each other. "Now they have a person tasked with building retirement products so it's easier to explain the product," a Terrain managing director Jim Richards said.

CommInsure eyes deferred lifetime annuities

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 18 OCT 2019
... retirement income products. Lytas also thinks that DLAs could find use in developing comprehensive income retirement products (CIPRs). Superannuation trustees are required to have a retirement income strategy in place from 1 July 2020 but are not required ...

Calls for better drawdown rules

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 SEP 2019
... including retirement income objectives, retirement income estimates, well designed draw-down rules and better retirement products. "Careful use of the term 'income' which could confuse members with the dual meaning of investment earnings and ...

Fund manager creates new investment role

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2019
... has joined Eley Griffiths in the new role after 12 years building the annuity provider's managed funds and retirement products distribution teams. The role was created to spearhead investor communications and sales to wholesale and private clients, which ...

AustralianSuper hikes admin fees

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JAN 2019
... since January 2009. AustralianSuper will also cease charging the $35 exit fee for both its accumulation and retirement products. It wrote to members that the additional fees will be "directed towards providing better products and services for you, not ...

Poor equities performance sees MySuper suffer

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 15 JAN 2019
... Super, Statewide Super, Club Plus Super and HESTA. The median return seen was 0.8%. Finally, the top five retirement products were NGS Income Stream, First Super Allocated Pensions, Equip Pensions, Club Plus Pension and Statewide Super Pension. The overall ...

Government needs to rethink CIPRs

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 10 JAN 2019
... Productivity Commission says in the final report. Treasury has already extended the deadline on Comprehensive Income Retirement Products to July 2022, and most super funds have done very little work on it. The key point of the Retirement Income Covenant ...

Superannuation fund introduces fee changes

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 13 DEC 2018
A $3.6 billion public offer fund has made a number of fee changes to its superannuation and retirement products. WA Super has ceased charging an $80 exit fee and $80 withdrawal fee for its Retirement Solutions product from 5 November 2018. Members can ...

Retirement income covenant consultation continues

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 11 DEC 2018
... information. They would not replace or remove the need for funds to provide PDSs and would be required for all retirement products," the paper said. Following the consultation process, consumers will partake in a trial to test the design and content ...