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UK fast tracks pension reforms

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 21 OCT 2010
The UK government has brought forward plans to raise the retirement age and increased the contributions public sector employees must pay to fund their retirements. Chancellor George Osborne announced overnight that the pension age will rise to 66 by ...

PAS supports Paceline

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 14 OCT 2010
... 400,000 Australians having one kind of cardiac arrhythmias and that number increasing in prevalence as people reach retirement age, this is an opportunity to help make retirement easier physically, as well as financially," said Mark Ashburn, national ...

Align preservation and retirement age: DoFD

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 5 OCT 2010
... disaster the DoFD has suggested a range of superannuation reforms including locking superannuation money up until retirement age and tightening of age pension eligibility criteria. "Most individuals are presently able to access superannuation concessions ...

Thousands rally against Sarkozy

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 SEP 2010
... involving hundreds of thousands of French nationals marched the streets of Paris and beyond in protest to proposed retirement age changes. Thousands marched through over 130 towns and cities in a united protest against President Nicolas Sarkozy's planned ...

AustralianSuper wades into politics

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 2 SEP 2010
... highest RRI at 68 per cent but more due to the longer time they have to save before they retire. By contrast, with a retirement age of 67 and an increase in SG to 12 per cent, the RRI for this same group would jump to 92 per cent, according to the re ...

Mercer stress tests retirement

MEDIA RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 5 AUG 2010
... see what impact variables like salary, investment strategy, voluntary contributions, rollovers, career breaks and retirement age could have on their retirement income, claims the firm. Heather Dawson, partner at Mercer, said retirement calculators are ...

Lessons from US pension funds in crisis

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 21 JUN 2010
... According to international paper The New York Times and reported in other publications, Ohio has already changed its retirement age from 60 to 67, Colorado cut its 3.5 percent annual pension increase to 2 percent and certain workers in New Jersey won't ...

Super savings run out well before retirement: survey

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUN 2010
... raising SG to 12 per cent may not be a sufficient policy response and it may be necessary to further raise the retirement age. "Our analysis suggests that the most effective way to bridge the gap between likely future retirement income and desired minimum ...

On the shoulders of giants

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 15 MAR 2010
... the current 9 per cent SG contribution is 'adequate'. "Super adequacy is not just a question for those reaching retirement age in five to ten years," he said, adding that there's not enough community discussion on the adequacy of super for the next two ...

Greece is the word

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 FEB 2010
... faster than inflation - is now forced to cut government spending, raise fuel taxes, freeze wage rise and raise the retirement age. All in the name of deficit reduction. What is happening in Greece and Portugal and Ireland and Spain serves a warning to ...