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Australians lack confidence in retirement: SSGA

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JAN 2023
... including the Your Future, Your Super (YFYS) reforms, aggressive super fund consolidation and launch of the Retirement Income Covenant (RIC), 40% of Australian respondents reported having little confidence in their preparedness for, or timing of, their ...

Retirees feel the brunt of inflation: Challenger

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 24 JAN 2023
... risks, highlights the need for financial advisers to consider the impacts of rising inflation as they explore retirement income solutions for their clients. Challenger said that inflation erodes the real value of income for a retiree, even with moderate ...

Government to close child sex abuser loophole in super

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 19 JAN 2023
... said: "We want to ensure that convicted child sex offenders cannot use superannuation - which was set up for retirement income purposes; not to shield criminals' assets - so to ensure that we close the loopholes so any of these out of character contributions ...

Aware Super, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America back Xpansiv

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 12 JAN 2023
... lower costs and improve ESG benchmarks," he said. "We see this investment opportunity as a win for our members' retirement income stream, a win for the communities in which they live, work and retire, and a win for corporates around the world looking ...

Delayed reforms put pensioners at risk: OECD

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 5 DEC 2022
... plans. Another area of focus in the outlook pertained to good practices for developing mortality tables for retirement income arrangements. It asserted that mortality assumptions are a key factor in determining the amount of assets needed to finance ...

Talaria hires head of sales

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  MONDAY, 5 DEC 2022
... invaluable knowledge and experience to the team. "With over two decades of experience spanning funds management and retirement income strategy distribution, Lance will be a huge asset to the Talaria team," he said. He added that Talaria's Global Equity ...

North adds new managed portfolio capability

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  FRIDAY, 2 DEC 2022
... investment menu and offers," she explained. "In particular through our expanding managed portfolio range and our new retirement income solution - MyNorth Lifetime. Our Buy, Badge, Build managed portfolio solution is another example of how we're continuing ...

Millions of retirees will benefit from QAR

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 29 NOV 2022
The Quality of Advice Review's (QAR) proposals will help an additional two million retirees spend $22.5 billion more and leave $6 billion less in bequests annually by the year 2040. According to data released by the Financial Services Council (FSC) ...

'Our fears were warranted': Chant West proposes YFYS alternative

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 24 NOV 2022
... the test to Choice products should proceed in 2023, citing "serious market failure" in the segment. Regarding retirement income products, Chant West stated it believes that testing of retirement income products shouldn't be introduced any time soon. ...

Goldman Sachs charged over ESG failures

JAMIE WILLIAMSON, RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 NOV 2022
... DOL rule change does not apply to public pension plans, because their governance falls outside of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA). Some US states led by GOP politicians have rallied behind the anti-ESG/anti-woke capitalism movement ...