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Retirement income to take super centre-stage

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 4 DEC 2015
... retirement income sector, making up 55% ($336 billion) of retirement income funds under management. Retail allocated pensions make up $167 billion, or 27%, public sector pensions represent $60 billion (10%) and the remainder is held in industry fund ...

ACCI supports closing tax breaks on high balances

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 30 NOV 2015
... balanced package of reforms to Australia's superannuation and tax systems could potentially reduce reliance on public pensions and allow for broader tax relief. Australian Chamber director of economics and industry policy, John Osborn, described Australia's ...

Super funds should engage in pub theory

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 26 NOV 2015
... conference, Standard Life head of pension strategy Jamie Jenkins says that the UK-based firm has experimented socialising about pensions in the pub with positive results. "Our first experiment was using people from Gogglebox in the United Kingdom," Jenkins ...

Multi-sector investments reach $555 billion

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 10 NOV 2015
... Australians had more than $555 billion of managed fund assets invested in multi-sector investment trusts, superannuation funds, pensions and insurance bonds as at 31 July 2015, according to Morningstar. The researcher recently completed qualitative research ...

Macquarie and CBA in global top 100

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 3 NOV 2015
... the only Australian companies to have made it into the top 100 largest fund managers globally, according to a survey by Pensions & Investments and Towers Watson. Of the top 50 managers in the annual Pensions & Investments/Towers Watson World 500, Macquarie ...

Australian Catholic Super launches retirement income product

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2015
... long established and successful account-based pension product which has been renamed RetireChoice. Both account-based pensions are available as part of a transition to retirement strategy and to fully retired members. Although RetireSmart has been designed ...

First State Super appoints ex-Barclays risk head

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2015
... Mutual Asset Managers. At FSS, he will report to chief risk officer Suzette Thurman. Earlier in September, FSS made the Pensions & Investments/Towers Watson top 100 pension funds list in the 96th place, along with other Australian funds including the ...

Pension and retirement strategies a global problem

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 11 SEP 2015
... the local industry still faces challenges. "In the coming decades the increasing costs of health care, aged care and pensions will put significant strain on the national balance sheet and, like many countries, we're looking at the challenge of how we ...

Aussie super funds in top 100

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 8 SEP 2015
... to the world's top 100 retirement savings funds, joining four Australian counterparts in the annual list compiled by Pensions & Investments magazine and Towers Watson. The P&I/Towers Watson Global 300 list was launched today with both the Future Fund ...

GBST wealth management performance drives 52% profit boost

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 AUG 2015
... operations' result was impressive. Regulatory change continued to drive sales, and deployment of GBST Composer to support UK Pensions Freedom legislation helped win new clients. Australian Wealth Management operations successfully completed several large ...