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Rest offers extra parental leave

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAY 2021
Rest has increased its parental leave for employees who work full time or part time. Eligible employees can now claim 16 weeks of paid parental leave instead of the 14 weeks previously available can be taken flexibly during a 12-month period. Rest chief ...

Research aims to solve cash conundrum

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAY 2021
... options. For the last several years, this practice will have seen them get smaller and smaller returns. Newer retirement income products, like that offered by Allianz Retire+ or annuities or equities-based retirement income products like that offered ...

Generation Life awards tech mandate

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAY 2021
... Optimum Pensions in January for a five-year exclusive agreement to manufacture, administer and distribute its retirement income product. Most recently, Evergreen Consultants announced it is using Generation Life tax-effective structure to launch a multi-asset ...

Deborah Ralston to advise Allianz Retire+

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 29 APR 2021
Retirement Income Review panel member Deborah Ralston has joined an advisory panel set up by Allianz Retire+, which will also include Nicolette Rubinsztein. Allianz Retire+ has offered its retirement income products, Future Safe to the retail market ...

Government merges advice reviews

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 APR 2021
... three-year transitional period is due for a review in 2022. Hume also flagged with confidence that the long-awaited Retirement Income Covenant will be in force from 1 July 2022. "It is finally going to happen. The Retirement Income Covenant will be included ...

Vanguard UK upends cost of advice

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 20 APR 2021
... and allowing them to deliver their advice services in an efficient and accessible way. Our recently launched Retirement Income Builder tool is one such example," a spokesperson said.

Tax concessions failing women: Research

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 6 APR 2021
The tax concession system is a contributing factor to gender inequality with most of the benefits flowing onto men, new research from the Australia Institute shows. Economic modelling commissioned by the Australia Institute from the Centre for Social ...

Why advisers don't recommend annuities

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAR 2021
... Orford Foundation, set up by former Financial Synergy managing director David Orford. Orford has since set up a retirement income product provider Optimum Pensions, which this month signed a distribution deal with ASX-listed Generation Life. The final ...

Super runs out before death: ASFA

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAR 2021
... research claims that the majority of Australians deplete their superannuation savings before death, countering the Retirement Income Review's findings. The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) claims that most retirees run out of super ...

ABC, ISH arrangement faces scrutiny

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 29 MAR 2021
... members' money has been spent on the ABC 's chief economist, who this week will be covering a series on retirement income, he said. No one knows, Falinski added, how much the correspondent is getting paid, or the terms and conditions of the agreement. ...