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HUB24 tops platform rankings

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  MONDAY, 27 FEB 2023
... the centre of a range of initiatives by many platforms. "This has translated into a material step up in the range of annuities, capital-protected funds, and longevity protection funds added to the investment menu, as well as the development of new retirement ...

Challenger reports strong results

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 14 FEB 2023
... "We have positioned the business to benefit from rising interest rates, which have stimulated strong demand for retail annuities, particularly longer dated products." "In Funds Management, our diverse offering has allowed our business to largely withstand ...

Netwealth rolls out platform enhancements

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  FRIDAY, 3 FEB 2023
... alerts on client accounts and investments held within a client's account, such as expiring term deposits and maturing annuities. As well as monitor client cash flow with minimum cash alerts, monitor minimum investment amounts within models and filter ...

Retirees feel the brunt of inflation: Challenger

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 24 JAN 2023
... to rise as inflation continues. Income stream options such as account-based pensions, guaranteed CPI-linked lifetime annuities and market-linked lifetime annuities can also help, Challenger said.

ASIC confirms advisers can offer home equity access guidance

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 10 JAN 2023
... is often used in conjunction with other financial products, such as age pension entitlements and super pensions, or annuities, Miller continued.

Challenger launches new alternatives fund

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 28 OCT 2022
... offered a new guaranteed fixed three-year term annuity at 4.4% per annum. The investment manager said this rate shifted annuities into sharper competition with other defensive assets such as term deposits. At the time, Challenger's chief customer officer ...

Retirees are silent casualties of inflation: Challenger

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 24 OCT 2022
... an income stream for the rest of their life that adjusts in line with inflation changes. Moreover, regarding lifetime annuities there's been an innovation to provide payments that increase in line with either an underlying diversified portfolio or ...

AMP debuts hybrid retirement solution

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 18 OCT 2022
... solutions available through the North platform that combines an account-based pension with the lifetime cashflow features of annuities. The MyNorth Lifetime Income account is a flexible pension account that provides a market-linked income stream and ...

Time to throw out the antiquated lifetime annuity mindset

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 23 SEP 2022
Lifetime annuities have often been set and forget products - very stable, very predictable and linked to one asset with total inflexibility - but that's completely changed, Generation Life chief executive Grant Hackett said. The perception of traditional ...

Challenger offers new fixed term annuity

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  THURSDAY, 8 SEP 2022
... low-risk options and comes with the Challenger guarantee. "It reflects Challenger's ability to offer competitive rate annuities, in an environment where the Reserve Bank of Australia is raising the official cash rate," he explained. "For many retirees ...