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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 ...

Fixing retirement system an election priority: Grattan

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 17 MAR 2025
... Grattan said the government should look to performance test account-based pensions. In fact, it wants to see all retirement products assessed. "These reforms could boost the incomes of future retirees who continue to opt for an account-based pension ...

Annuities' capital settings due for change: APRA

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2025
... second half of 2025. "This aligns with APRA's goal to support life insurers to increase the availability of retirement products for retirees, as outlined in its Corporate Plan 2024-25," APRA said. Central to the potential changes is calculating the ...

AMP profit dives as advice business sale bites

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2025
... launching new offers including digital advice," George said. She said there's been strong adviser uptake of retirement products and managed portfolios on the North platform, which is driving inflows, adding that, in the superannuation and investments ...

Grattan Institute renews calls for best-in-show super funds, partial annuitisation

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 20 JAN 2025
... Financial Outcomes reforms should only proceed once account-based pensions are performance tested, and all retirement products are included in APRA's performance assessments.