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Retirees could be out up to $136k: SMC

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  THURSDAY, 30 OCT 2025
... phase. The report also recommended strengthening consumer protections by implementing a quality filter on all retirement products. SMC chief executive Misha Schubert said: "We need to make the shift into retirement so much simpler, easier and more intuitive ...

Super fees continue to fall: Rainmaker

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2025
... benchmarks have continued to fall across MySuper and workplace products, however they increased for personal and retirement products. MySuper maintains its position as the most fee-competitive segment. On average, MySuper fees fell by 0.07% per annum ...

APRA flags growing trustee complacency on retirement strategies

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2025
... APRA's data also found that the ongoing wave of members entering retirement would mean an estimated rise of retirement products from $575 billion to $3 trillion in 20 years' time. To deal with this, Cole said, trustees will need to be prepared to manage ...

Three retirement products achieve double-digit returns

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 SEP 2025
The retirement products of two industry superannuation funds and a corporate plan achieved double-digit returns of 10% p.a. or more over the last three years, a new analysis from Rainmaker Information shows. UniSuper's Pension Balanced option and ANZ ...

APRA dissects retirement products for the first time

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUN 2025
More than 200 retirement products managing $490 billion in members' retirement savings have come under the watchful eye of prudential regulator APRA for the first time. APRA's latest statistics for the March 2025 period breaks down the state ...

Super needs customised, personalised approach: FSC

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2025
... goals, rather than encouraged by regulation, to remain disengaged and subsequently shoehorned into default retirement products."

Daniel Mulino takes over financial services portfolio

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAY 2025
... financial literacy and access to advice, simplifying the retirement system, and encouraging innovation in retirement products and services." From the super sector, the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia outlined three key areas in which ...

Prime Super to change admin fees

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2025
... cap will increase from $588 ($500 net) to $825. For pension accounts, including transition to retirement and retirement products, the fixed fee will remain at $1.30 per week. The asset-based fee will decrease from 0.500% per annum to 0.33% per annum ...

FAAA calls for stronger consumer protections in advice reforms

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAY 2025
... advantage to other super funds compared with other providers of financial advice. It also cited that super funds' retirement products would be "substantially insulated from competition." Moreover, collective charging for retirement advice would require ...

GESB expands leadership team

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 14 APR 2025
... GESB, Smith is responsible for member and employer experience, while also ensuring value for money super and retirement products. She will oversee brand, communications and digital, insurance, key account management, member insights and analytics, product ...