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Comfortable retirement requires $432k in super: SCA

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 2 DEC 2025
... as $423,000. For many people this is good news - by knowing your Retirement Super Target you can balance your quality of life now with your quality of life in retirement," said Ellis. SCA will release its Retirement Savings Targets for Renters report ...

Royal London AM launches four new funds locally

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 2 DEC 2025
... the UK and select international locations and is part of the Royal London Mutual Insurance Society, the UK's largest mutual life, pensions and investment company. The firm entered the Australian market in 2017, but this marks the first time it has launched ...

ASIC suspends Newcastle advice firm's AFSL over missing key person

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2025
... more than two years without a key person. FFA was established in 2003 and provides financial services around superannuation, life insurance, retirement planning, estate planning and wealth creation. The ownership of FFA's AFSL changed in 2023 following ...

Financially savvy Australians can add $1.2tn to wealth: Research

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2025
New research has found that if all Australians were to reach a level of advanced financial capability, it could uplift aggregate household wealth by $1.2 trillion, equal to $122,950 per household. The Big Lift report by Deloitte in collaboration with ...

AI to maximise returns for super members: Report

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2025
The Thinking Ahead Institute (TAI) released a global DC peer study that revealed the current outdated design of these pension funds are preventing younger members from receiving maximised returns. TAI co-founder Roger Urwin supported the report's findings ...

FEATURE | Agriculture: Golden soil

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2025
In the book The Lucky Country, the late author Donald Horne provides a piercing assessment of Australia in 1964, stating that its prosperity is derived from good fortune rather than industriousness or ambition. He ruminated about the future challenges ...

Principal rejoins Mercer team

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 27 NOV 2025
... has recruited a former employee as a principal and senior actuarial consultant. In her new role, Christine Lu will focus on life insurance consulting as well as on defined benefit and defined contribution superannuation. Lu has 14 years of experience ...

Super funds continue to fail vulnerable members: UNSW

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 27 NOV 2025
... confident about their financial future. However, challenges persist involving incomplete and unavailable data about relevant life or financial affairs accessible by super funds, to which, Hanewald alluded to the Super Members Council's report that targeted ...

Super funds lagging RIC obligations: Pulse Check

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 NOV 2025
... a starting point. Other factors that were considered by some licensees when defining cohorts included employment status, life stage, Age Pension eligibility, and the members' level of engagement with and preparedness for the transition to retirement. ...

DC funds "leaving member money on the table": Report

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 NOV 2025
... pathway option. However, polling showed that 62% of funds support the introduction of a mandatory minimum level of income for life in retirement. This high preference for stronger guarantees would likely reduce member flexibility or choice, the study ...