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Plum Super launches retirement product

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 18 JUL 2017
A new product designed to help Australians manage their superannuation in the lead up to and during retirement has hit the market. Plum Retirement Income, a Plum Super (wholly NAB-owned) initiative, will offer an account-based pension for customers ...

Mercy Super appoints new chief executive

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 16 JUN 2017
Corporate fund Mercy Super has appointed a new chief executive. Wendy Tancred joined Mercy Super in April from Davidson Consulting, where she was also chief executive. Before that, she was Queensland state head of financial planning at BT Financial ...

Actuaries warn against one size fits all retirement products

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 5 JUN 2017
The Actuaries Institute has urged the government to use caution when designing Comprehensive Income Products for Retirement, saying a prescriptive approach would see the proliferation of sub-scale, unsustainable products. In its submission to Treasury's ...

Default retirement products not good enough: Milliman

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 22 MAY 2017
Superannuation funds that don't get to know members better ahead of designing a Comprehensive Income Product for Retirement are putting themselves at risk of severe reputational damage. That is the view of risk management and retirement experts Milliman ...

Industry fund teams with Challenger on retirement

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  THURSDAY, 27 APR 2017
Industry superannuation fund legalsuper is expanding its retirement product offering with the addition of two Challenger guaranteed income accounts. Both Lifetime and Fixed Term guaranteed income accounts will now be available - to provide members with ...

Future retirement products aided by tax exclusions

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAR 2017
The Federal Government's latest development of regulation for new retirement income streams is now open for public consultation. Adding to the existing draft legislation, the government has proposed that superannuation funds and insurance companies ...

Super consolidation imminent: research

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 24 FEB 2017
The number of super funds (excluding SMFSs) have dropped by 72% from 872 to 244 in the last ten years (see Figure 1), according to new research from Rice Warner. The annual Superannuation Market Projections Report shows in 2016, 83 out of 219 funds ...

MySuper progresses to MyRetirement

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 16 DEC 2016
The Federal Government is taking a leaf out of the MySuper playbook, suggesting Comprehensive Income Products for Retirement become MyRetirement products. Releasing a Treasury consultation paper on the development framework for CIPRs, Government Minister ...

SelectingSuper announces super fund of the year

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 17 NOV 2016
... Super won the Personal Product of the Year; and Colonial First State - FirstChoice Wholesale Pension won the Retirement Product of the Year. For insurance the Workplace Offering of the Year went to Sunsuper for life Business and AIA Australia; while ...

Rainmaker Information selected by CANSTAR

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 1 NOV 2016
Canstar Research recently appointed Rainmaker Information to provide superannuation data for its super fund comparison and ratings service. Rainmaker Information provides one of the largest data feeds on Australia's superannuation industry and has collected ...