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Budget a 'missed opportunity': ISA

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAY 2014
... the infrastructure package "nothing more than an amateur con." While ISA opposed the changes to the Age Pension, the Actuaries Institute supported them, with president Daniel Smith saying: "This decision is an important step in ensuring our pension and ...

PROFILE: Actuaries Institute CEO David Bell

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2014
In April the Actuaries Institute launched an advertising campaign painting actuaries as the 'rock stars of the 21st Century'. FourA months into the role, new chief executiveA David Bell tells James Fernyhough what heA hopes the campaign will achieve. ...

Super to engender securitisation 'rebirth': Brogden

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2014
... in partnership with the banks, according to Financial Services Council chief executive John Brogden. Speaking at the Actuaries Institute's Financial Services Forum yesterday, Brogden argued that as asset concentration risk increasingly becomes an issue ...

FSC lobbies against super "7 year gap"

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 APR 2014
... about the potential for lifting the pension age to 70. Commenting on this, Brogden said that it would be the government actuaries' task to figure out the right age. However, he called for a tightening of the means testing for the eligibility on the age ...

Could government issue its own annuities?

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 15 APR 2014
... submissions that dealt with this topic - including the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA), the Actuaries Institute, UniSuper and Challenger - focused on the need to remove regulatory impediments to the development of products such ...

Murray inquiry initial submissions due today

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 31 MAR 2014
... inquiry website in the coming days, but some organisations chose to make the information public ahead of the due date. The Actuaries Institute asked for "significant policy changes" so that Australia's financial sector and retirement income system can ...

FEATURE: Insuring against longevity risk

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAR 2014
... in 2014. The Association of Superannuation Trustees of Australia (ASFA), the Financial Services Council (FSC) and the Actuaries Institute have all been vocal proponents of developing a more sophisticated retirementA income space. So far the default answer ...

Towers Watson appoints insurance exec

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 3 MAR 2014
... financial services markets," Towers Watson managing director Andrew Boal said. Caputo is a fellow of the Institute of Actuaries of Australia and holds a Bachelor of Economics (Actuarial) from Macquarie University.

Actuaries call for overhaul of retirement phase rules

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 17 FEB 2014
The Actuaries Institute has called for profound change to the regulation of the retirement phase of superannuation, including changing the rules around lumps sum withdrawals and removing impediments to older people who want to continue working. In its ...

Robertson and Wadell out in AMP reshuffle

HARRY PAGE, ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2014
... director of Superannuation with responsibility for superannuation, retirement and platform investment products. Former Actuaries Institute chief executive and industry commentator Melinda Howes, who moved to AMP in November, has been appointed director ...