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Super hype is working: AXA

... cent of working Australians, compared to around half that a year ago, now have a "good idea" of their projected retirement income. Seven out of 10 working Australians have also started preparing for their retirement at an average age of 31 years old. ...

ASFA targets extra super contributions

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 22 JAN 2007
The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) has called on the Federal Government to introduce 'soft compulsion' opt-out arrangements for additional employee super contributions and to make co-contribution benefits more readily available ...

ATO to create single lost super gateway

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 15 DEC 2006
The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) is to create a single and simplified gateway for people looking to find their lost or unclaimed superannuation. The ATO will do this by rationalising its existing processes to identify actual lost members, obtain ...

Super funds need to educate members: Quadrant

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 28 NOV 2006
... industry to provide consumers with value added services to ensure all Australians have access to an adequate retirement income." Quadrant introduced financial advice for its members in 2002 and currently offers members free financial advice on their ...

Compare the pair: Weaven vs Lambert

... nothing illegitimate about your business model but it fails in terms of delivering low cost super and maximising retirement income," he said. Weaven challenged the crowd to support independent comparison research based on real-life member accounts over ...

MLC analyst bags 2006 Future Leaders Award

... industry can overcome its inefficiencies, how life insurance products can be made more attractive and how to make retirement income streams more beneficial to retirees. Mahalingam took the top prize against a total of 18 entries for his paper which proposed ...

Home equity needs to be part of retirement strategy

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 26 SEP 2006
... compiled the Commentary on Retirement Savings paper with the aim of fostering further discussion around national retirement income strategies. In the paper, Over Fifty Group contends that the use of home equity can offer insurance against outliving super ...

Men are better savers than women: Citibank

... bi-annual study on consumer behaviour towards retirement. Among the key findings were that the average monthly retirement income of a male is $2,370. By contrast, the average monthly income of a female is $1,475 or $895 less income per month. The income ...

Financial Synergy scoops ESSB deal

... deliver a low risk implementation. Financial Synergy demonstrated that it understood the intricacies of our retirement income process and is committed to delivering efficient results," said John Nothdurft, GM Administration & Operations of ESS. Nothdurft ...

Increasing SG will cost 57,000 jobs: ACCI

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 14 SEP 2006
The Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI) has finally broken its silence regarding all the proposals to increase SG above 9 per cent, saying it will cost tens of thousands of jobs. The ACCI has, however, come out fighting now. "Reckless ...