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Optimum Pensions partners with Generation Life

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 19 JAN 2021
David Orford's Optimum Pensions has signed a five-year exclusive agreement with Generation Life to bring its retirement income product to the market. Generation Life will manufacture, administer, market and distribute an investment-linked pension ...

Rice Warner weighs in on Your Future, Your Super

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 14 JAN 2021
... concern. The first is that employer schemes are potentially under threat. Prior to industry funds and master trusts, most pensions were provided by employers as a staff benefit that were typically tailored to their demographic and subsidised fees and ...

Legacy pensions score win

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JAN 2021
The SMSF Association has welcomed a new law that will allow the partial commutation of legacy pensions. The change was announced in the federal government's mid-year economic and fiscal outlook (MYEFO), which was released last December. Retirees with ...

FS team picks: The top stories for 2020

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR, KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 17 DEC 2020
... Frontier Advisors to probe new longevity risk products for retiree members, which could include tweaking account-based pensions. Retirement Income Review revealed Treasury kept us waiting for months before dropping the more than 600-page long Retirement ...

QSuper bets on new retirement product

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 1 DEC 2020
... frugally. APRA June 2019 data shows that an overwhelming number (83%) of accounts in retirement phase are in account-based pensions that do not manage the risk of running out of money at retirement. Pennisi said the product still has a long way to go ...

State Super scholarship opens

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 9 NOV 2020
... scholarship supports successful applicants pursuing research in fields related to public sector employees and their retirement, pensions or superannuation. The scholarship-review panel consists of State Super, NSW Treasury, NSW Department of Education ...

Life insurers recognised for innovation

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 3 NOV 2020
... option) and Client and Adviser Technical Support Award. The Longevity Product (Investment Linked) Award went to Optimum Pensions (Real Lifetime Pension). It also scored the Tools and Calculators Award. Generation Life is the winner of the Overall Investment ...

Russell launches new super product

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 27 OCT 2020
... retirement if they do not save enough - unlike overseas where many companies and government agencies have defined benefit pensions funds. This, she said, makes GoalTracker appropriate for the Australian market. "The responsibility for a great retirement ...

IOOF compensation bill soars

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 26 OCT 2020
The former pensions and investments business of ANZ has exacerbated IOOF's client remediation bill, which has now topped $760 million. The provision for ex-ANZ P&I took the lion's share of the total remediation bill at $197.9 million. The firm ...

Aussie asset managers fourth-fastest in global growth

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2020
... Watson's Thinking Ahead Institute published a joint study of the world's 500 largest managers based on 2019 assets with Pensions & Investments. US names (BlackRock, Vanguard and Fidelity) came out as the largest managers but the report found fast growing ...