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What "wealthy" means to Australians: AMP

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 28 FEB 2023
... Statistics, life expectancy in Australia has increased from 69 in 1950 to 84 in 2023, adding 15 more years to the post-retirement phase of life. As a result, the need for saving for retirement or provisioning for this extended period has become increasingly ...

Optimum Pensions urges super trustees to insure mortality risk

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 28 FEB 2023
Optimum Pensions has urged super trustees to insure life expectancy and mitigate mortality risk to meet Retirement Income Covenant objectives. Optimum Pensions' ' The difference between insured and uninsured retirement products ' whitepaper said trustees ...

Economic landscape spurs advice model rethink

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 28 FEB 2023
... Instead, they are adding value in areas such as budgeting and cashflow management, debt, superannuation, tax, Centrelink, retirement planning, estate planning and aged care, Desktop Broker found. Additionally, advisers are increasing the provision of ...

HESTA hires from MLC Super for GM role

ELIZABETH FRY  |  MONDAY, 27 FEB 2023
... transformation capabilities, helping the Fund deliver key strategic initiatives that can deliver better experiences and retirement outcomes for our members." "I'm delighted to join such a high-performing Fund and team, added Forster-Smith. "What ...

HUB24 tops platform rankings

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  MONDAY, 27 FEB 2023
... introduced new integrations with third-party ESG ratings and said this was a key growth area. The report also said retirement income has been at the centre of a range of initiatives by many platforms. "This has translated into a material step up in the ...

Super fund advice needs more guardrails: Conference

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 27 FEB 2023
... wants advice on the best investment option. Where it becomes more complicated, however, is when members transition to retirement. "That's an area where vertical integration is being proposed as cross-subsidising a piece of advice that we wouldn't ...

ClearView offloads managed investments unit

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 24 FEB 2023
... Nominees "is currently considering a number of options and the best way forward for the superannuation fund, ClearView Retirement Plan". Following its simplification initiative, ClearView will solely focus on providing life insurance. This part of the ...

New front in super wars, stability at risk: Opposition

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 23 FEB 2023
... and mission creep, and remain laser focused on delivering returns to Australians that secure their quality of life in retirement," Taylor said. "It's also critical that changes are predicable, certain, and consistent with election promises. These ...

Australia leads the way in pension system sustainability: ASFA

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 23 FEB 2023
Australia's sustainable pension expenditure stands out from other advanced economies' retirement income systems, an ASFA report says. ASFA's Cost of pensions across advanced economies report said Australia's government pension expenditure ...

Dataset to ease policy planning for ageing population

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 23 FEB 2023
With an ageing population but no accepted approach for measuring the age of retirement, KPMG has taken the same approach used to determine life expectancy to produce an age of retirement dataset. In producing the dataset, KPMG has determined the expected ...