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Default super delivers best performance in 34 years

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 29 NOV 2021
... sector. Rainmaker's lifecycle indices outperformed the single strategy indices in most age groups apart from pre-retirees aged in their 50s and 60s. As a result, seven out of the top 10 performing MySuper products are lifecycle products. However ...

Role of adviser to change: Fidelity

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 25 NOV 2021
... contribute to their clients' sense of control and confidence by using investments that are suitable for the needs of retirees, investments that are 'fit for purpose'. "Whilst retirees still need to take some investment risk with their portfolios, fit ...

Morningstar launches retirement strategy tool

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 NOV 2021
... Morningstar, launched the new tool today. He said it is designed to take into account behavioural science and the way that retirees already think about money. "For the vast majority of clients, they need to take on some market risk to produce returns ...

APRA hones in on post-retirement products

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 23 NOV 2021
... balances will be larger when people die, as will inheritances. Superannuation is intended to fund living standards of retirees, not to accumulate wealth to pass to future generations," the RIR report read. By 2059, the review estimated that about $130 ...

Hume throws shade at trustee rainy day funds

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 22 NOV 2021
... broad-based scheme on the other hand would inevitably be borne by other investors, that is the mum and dad investors and retirees. "Everybody who makes sensible, cautious, informed investment decisions would end up having their returns clipped to underwrite ...

Bond scam defrauds SMSFs $2.8m

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 15 NOV 2021
... promoting it to investors as a fixed bond investment, according to New South Wales Police. Many of the investors included retirees and operated SMSFs. Detectives from Kings Cross Police Area Command established Strike Force Tallagandra in March to investigate ...

Aussie dividends recover losses

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 15 NOV 2021
... for the rest of the world. "These results will come as welcome news to Australian investors, particularly self-funded retirees. On the back of these results, we're forecasting Australian dividend growth to reach around 60% this year, a significant increase ...

The challenge of retirement income

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 12 NOV 2021
The industry is often presented with the age-old question of how retirees can maintain access to savings and invest to receive regular and predictable income that keeps pace with inflation and without eroding capital. Magellan Asset Management head ...

Supply chain issues push up retiree expenses

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 11 NOV 2021
Retirees continue to bear the brunt of an expensive retirement fuelled by global supply chain issues. Retired couples and singles saw living expenses in their twilight years rise 1% in the September quarter, the latest Association of Superannuation ...

The search for income outside defensive assets

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 11 NOV 2021
The eighth wonder of the world, compound interest, has been diminished and retirees must look elsewhere in their search for yield. Speaking at the Financial Standard Best Practice Forum on Retirement Income, Fidelity International cross asset investment ...