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Advisers not ready for super changes

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAY 2011
Financial planners are unprepared for a superannuation system that is rapidly changing with the biggest problems not of their making, Jeremy Cooper said today. Cooper, the former head of the Superannuation System Review, told a packed ballroom of industry ...

Hungary nationalises private pensions

JOHN MCDULING  |  TUESDAY, 30 NOV 2010
The Hungarian government has effectively nationalised the private pensions of its citizens in an effort to plug holes in the country's finances. Confirming savers and foreign investors worst fears, the national economy minister, Gyorgy Matolcsy announced ...

Indian pension funds poised for growth

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 SEP 2010
... adequately funded. In 2004, the pension system for government employees shifted from "defined benefit" to "defined contribution" with the launch of the New Pension Scheme (NPS). In 2009, the NPS was opened up to the public, not just government employees ...

The future of super: Cooper

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 3 SEP 2010
... Super funds looking more like banks, the transformation of advice as intra-fund advice takes flight, and defined contribution (DC) plans having their own regulatory arm - these are some of the outlooks for super over the next 10 to 20 years, according ...

Overseas pensions shine in communications

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 27 JUL 2010
... Spence Johnson, an investment marketing intelligence firm, was hired to assist in the process and collected 90 defined contribution communications campaigns. This unearthed a number of successful communications campaigns - especially from the US. One ...

QIC adopts lifecycle investing

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 6 JUL 2010
... of the traditional 'set and forget' approaches to default option design. "With most super fund members in defined contribution plans, the recent effects of the global financial crisis have illustrated the dangers of taking a static approach to asset ...

Report points to low cost fund future

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUN 2010
... per cent of household mutual fund assets were held through financial advisers and 24 per cent were held in defined contribution plans in 2007. This alone does not explain the reasons for a greater focus on overall costs. The reason behind this trend ...

Macquarie launches lifetime income product

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 29 MAR 2010
... out of savings before they die," he said. "Although Australia has led the world in developing a mandatory defined contribution retirement savings system - superannuation - we trail many other markets including the US and the UK in providing longevity ...

Fees secondary to return: Qantas Super

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 FEB 2010
... and 0.47 per cent on investment management fees. This 0.71 per cent fee is much lower than an average US defined contribution fund fee, which is around 1.02 per cent. Qantas Super is one of Australia's largest corporate superannuation funds with $5.5 ...

Research finds country bias in pension asset allocation

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 2 FEB 2010
Yes, we all live in a global community thanks to the web, but according to new research, where you live physically makes a big difference to your retirement savings. New research from consulting giant Towers Watson found that working in Paris, Tokyo ...