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Aware Super launches digital advice tool for retirees

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2025
... be given an "income confidence score" to see how their plan measures up to their goals. The tool can also estimate Age Pension eligibility, include a spouse's financial details and model how decisions such as taking an overseas holiday or helping ...

MUFG 'sincerely apologises' to Cbus over claim delays

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 OCT 2025
... beneficiaries," the joint statement said. The apology from MUFG is a real about-face for the company. In December 2024, MUFG Pension and Market Services chief executive and managing director Vivek Bhatia fronted the Senate Economics Committee where he ...

Feature: Digital advice | Sleeping giant

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2025
... providers' ability to facilitate retirement readiness is a key differentiator. Several providers are currently integrating Age Pension modelling, goal-based scenarios, and hybrid delivery pathways into their platforms. Proactive nudges, B2C guidance ...

Australia, UK regulators exchange insights

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2025
The UK and Australia have exchanged information on their respective approaches to financial markets, pension structures, and digital asset advancement at the inaugural UK-Australia Joint Financial Regulatory Forum. The virtual forum was chaired by director ...

Retirees should put 80% of balance into annuities: Grattan

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2025
... which require them to manage spending to avoid the risk of outliving their savings. "Half of those using an account-based pension draw their super at the legislated minimum rates, leaving two-thirds unspent by average life expectancy," said Brendan Coates ...

SMC calls for simplified retirement system

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2025
... 2023-24 year, 63% of sampled retirees from three large funds withdrew above the age-based minimum rates through regular pension drawdowns. It added that the trend is even more pronounced among those with lower balances and younger retirees, which could ...

More than 75% of asset owners wary of trade disputes

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2025
... family offices (28%), outsourced chief investment officers and multi-managers (22%), insurance general accounts (16%), and pension funds (16%). Australian respondents represented a collective US$34 billion assets under management. Findings indicated ...

Age Pension to increase on September 20

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2025
The Age Pension is increasing tomorrow, while previously frozen deeming rates will rise by 0.5%. From tomorrow, September 20, the Age Pension will increase by $29.70 a fortnight for singles and $44.80 for couples combined. This will see singles receive ...

Zenith reaffirms Metrics ratings amid doubts

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 SEP 2025
... oversight, mandate committee that has been an ongoing process that they've had to evolve," Sebire said "The Korean National Pension Service (NPS) just took a 4% stake in Metrics... you would hope that the NPS did a lot of due diligence in terms of ...

Cbus vows faster death benefit payouts

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 16 SEP 2025
... process by about four to six weeks. Cbus and its administrator Link Market Services, which is now a subsidiary of MUFG Pension and Market Services, have been slammed for several death benefit processing failures. Taking Cbus to the Federal Court last ...