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VicSuper and Challenger launch integrated super retirement product

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUN 2015
... attempts to help bridge the retirement and accumulation phases. The CIPR is an integration of two new guaranteed retirement products alongside VicSuper's existing allocated pension product. VicSuper chief executive, Michael Dundon, said the partnership ...

Another marquee hire for Rainmaker

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2015
... are how super funds are enhancing their multi-management capability, adding life stage investing options, retirement products and new classes of retail managed investments. The new environment for insurance and fees just reinforces this. Callinan was ...

AMP Capital joins retirement education portal

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 FEB 2015
... one of the greatest challenges facing the financial sector in the coming decades. "An increasing number of retirement products in the market, ongoing tinkering with the superannuation system, and changes to the age pension make post retirement investment ...

FSI report favours longevity pooling

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2014
... System Inquiry final report has recommended superannuation funds make more use of longevity pooling in their retirement products. The report recommended that super funds offer a quasi-default 'comprehensive income product for retirement' (CIPR) to all ...

Murray's FSI: consumers win round one

ALEX DUNNIN  |  SUNDAY, 7 DEC 2014
... superannuation and overcomplicated it, it will unleash robo advice tools such retirement income projections, default retirement products and challenge the ethos that consumers should need complex advice at retirement as a matter of routine. Indeed Murray ...

TAL lobbies for annuity regulation change

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 11 NOV 2014
... disincentive for consumers is that DLAs do not initially have the same tax treatment that other superannuation and retirement products do."

Extend MySuper to retirement: ASFA

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 30 SEP 2014
... offers longevity protection." Vamos also encouraged unified regulation to encourage more product innovation. "Retirement products in the future will likely be a combination of income streams, account management and longevity protection, and may be part ...

Actuaries Institute to advise FSI on longevity

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 25 AUG 2014
... fashion and is divorced from short term political debates." The submission also said that increased demand for retirement products such as life annuities will lead to an increase in demand for fixed income securities such as government and corporate ...

MetLife refocuses on middle classes with direct distribution

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2014
... decline in policies sold to individuals because consumers have shifted their focus from life insurance to retirement products, according to the insurance industry research firm Limra. The change in insurance purchasing is so profound for the insurance ...

Retirement innovation deadlock continues

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 30 JUN 2014
Impediments to the development of innovative retirement products as an alternative to the account-based pension show no signs of lifting, despite industry consensus that such innovation is necessary. MetLife's recent decision to drop its hybrid annuity-style ...