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Minimum withdrawal rates act as default: CSIRO

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2016
... likely to draw down at a slightly higher rate. "We've broken down the data in to larger and smaller balances and you see pretty similar patterns," Reeson said. "So what we're seeing is very conservative drawing down behavior in most cases and of course ...

CIPRs not the entire answer for retirement

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 27 NOV 2015
... members, over a one year period, are converting into a pension account. If you look over longer periods of time this is pretty stable," Johnson said. "The higher balance members are more likely to open a pension, it makes more sense as they can afford ...

December moves

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 NOV 2015
... released its "Outlook for Economic Activity and Prices" report where it scaled down its growth and inflation forecasts (I'm pretty sure they've already seen this before they convened last month). The BOE now expects real GDP growth of 1.2% at the end ...

Pengana aims to lead global small cap groundswell

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 NOV 2015
... the US. That's where the weight of money is managed, everybody comes through all the time and Chicago is eight hours from pretty much everywhere." Though Australian investors' are generally realising that they must diversify their exposures internationally ...

AB calls for three-stage CIPR

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 NOV 2015
... to age 85 you still have to fund another 10 to 15 years' worth of retirement," Hutchins said. "Up until age 75 you are pretty much paying your own pension. You don't [necessarily] need insurance before 75. But between 75 and 85 there's quite a big change ...

PROFILE: REI Super chief executive Mal Smith

DARREN SNYDER, LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 NOV 2015
... Smith's job. He says that his most memorable experience as a chief executive was the global financial crisis. "It really was pretty challenging because a lot of members realised that they were less risk tolerant that they thought. Before the correction ...

Deloitte super plan could save budget $6bn

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 26 OCT 2015
... Deloitte statement said. Deloitte said it is a myth that super concessions cost more than the pension but "the costs are still pretty big." "If our super concessions cost lots but achieve relatively little, then Australians are spending a fortune on ...

PROFILE: SuperBPO chief executive Michael Houlihan

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 23 OCT 2015
... Houlihan says it has in many ways made the job easier. "If you start in 1988 with the award superannuation system, super was pretty easy. There wasn't a lot to it. Prior to '87 the governance of superannuation was done within one very small part of the ...

Turnbull backs financial start-ups

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2015
... than it is. We do have the advantage of being in the same time zone, there is a strong argument - I've always found it pretty convincing - that technology has annihilated longitudinal distance if not latitudinal distance if you're in the same time zone ...

Super and TPD definitions in the spotlight

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 OCT 2015
... Jocelyn Furlan, said the superannuation landscape has changed completely "and yet group insurance has remained remarkably pretty much the same." "I think now is a really good time for the industry to think about whether we need to rethink the insurance ...