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Super reforms incubating unemployment risk

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JAN 2017
... negative impact on the younger workforce. "Currently, the Australian Government faces twin financial pressures on age pensions from an increase in life expectancy and inadequate personal retirement savings. However, one drawback of delayed retirement ...

Defining DB for advisers

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JAN 2017
Defined benefits are an increasingly hot topic for financial advisers, with clarification around non-account based pensions leading queries to the BT Advice Technical team. According to BT's technical consultant Tim Howard, the team saw a growing interest ...

Insurance in super must be maintained: AIA

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 DEC 2016
... future." Mu continued that, in an ageing population, superannuation and life insurance helps to ease the pressure that pensions, disability and carer payments and home care places on governments - a cost that averages about $430 million a year. "AIA ...

Reversionary pension and CGT changes supported

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 NOV 2016
The Federal Government's changes to the counting of reversionary pensions in the $1.6 million superannuation transfer balance cap have been welcomed across the industry. A 12-month grace period is now proposed before reversionary pensions are counted ...

Pension systems and ageing populations at crossroads

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 24 OCT 2016
... years," Knox said. "Without changes to retirement ages and ages for eligibility to access social security and private pensions, there will be increasing pressure on global retirement systems to the detriment of the financial security provided to older ...

BTIM adds to executive lineup

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 21 OCT 2016
... currency overlay and global fixed income between 1993 and 2000. Most recently Matthew served as head of the institutional pensions team at Goldman Sachs in New York and prior to that she was vice-president of global foreign exchange at Credit Suisse. ...

Mercer appoints commercialisation director

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 6 OCT 2016
... Lifetime Plus product was debuted to ASIC, "they'd never seen anything like it." "I think it's fair to say account-based pensions are popular in Australia, so we fitted it into that structure but we don't know what the laws are going to be in the future ...

CIPR discussion paper by year's end

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 SEP 2016
... individual would need to make an active choice," she said. About 95% of assets in retirement phase are held in account-based pensions, meaning many individuals are taking responsibility for managing their own longevity risk. She said Murray found if ...

International pension research network established

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 9 AUG 2016
A new international research network is aiming to promote and advance high-quality social science studies on pensions, ageing and retirement. The network, which includes Australia's Centre for Excellence in Population Ageing Research (CEPAR) as a founding ...

Aligned advisers return to UK

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 AUG 2016
... financial advisers. Aviva client advice director Andy Barton said the tentative step back into advice was driven by new pensions freedoms announced by then Chancellor the Exchequer George Osborne in the June 2015 Budget. The new measures meant that from ...