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Cbus rolls out Advice Essentials Plus

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 28 OCT 2024
... a couple plans together for retirement." Cbus has more than 920,000 members and manages over $94 billion in retirement savings. Walker said members often required a bit more than what Advice Essentials offered but couldn't or wouldn't consider ...

Institutional outflows ensure mixed quarter for Insignia Financial

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 24 OCT 2024
... said the business remains on track to deliver on its FY25 initiatives, including the separation from NAB, greater cost savings, embedding the new structure, and working on the FY26-30 strategy which is to be announced next month.

Shifting retirement intentions require super rule change: ASFA

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 22 OCT 2024
... past the age of 65. However, ASFA chief executive Mary Delahunty said this presents a problem when it comes to accessing savings and the rules around drawing down on super need to be changed in recognition of changing social attitudes to retirement. ...

ESSSuper shifts members to new default option

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 21 OCT 2024
... super fund otherwise. ESSSuper announced in August that it launched the new option in a bid to help members boost their savings in retirement. The new Balanced Growth Managed option aims to help members increase their super balance for retirement by ...

ACTU slams plans to Americanise the superannuation system

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 18 OCT 2024
... effective dismantling of Australia's compulsory superannuation system in favour of a voluntary approach to retirement savings, in which bosses can choose to offer a retirement plan as a work 'perk', but they do not have to. ACTU assistant ...

Australian Ethical FUM nears $13bn

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 18 OCT 2024
... "Together these changes will deliver a strengthened business platform, as well as improved efficiencies and unit-cost savings, as we head into our new phase of growth supported by the increasing demand to our style of investing," McMurdo said.

Australia's retirement system slides down rankings

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 OCT 2024
... senior partner at Mercer, said Australia needs to better focus on encouraging Australians to make the best use of their savings through taking out long-term retirement income streams. This was also highlighted in last year's report. "All but one ...

Super fund fees exploit Australians' low financial literacy

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 OCT 2024
... director Daniel Shrimski believes Australians would be shocked to learn how much is being drained from their retirement savings through super fund fees. New research commissioned by Vanguard, conducted by CT Group, found 61% of Australians are unaware ...

Aussies struggle with financial goals: Generation Life

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 OCT 2024
... the immediate value of advice, helping our clients make small changes like shifting super funds or increasing monthly savings so they grow their wealth quickly. Then when we build and update their full financial plans, we show side-by-side the upside ...

Liberal MPs slammed for 'dangerous' super policy

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 OCT 2024
... 30 hours who do not receive super contributions, and they are overwhelmingly women, and are at risk of retiring with no savings," Kowalczyk said. "The lowest paid people in the country continue to be shortchanged with the Low Income Super Tax Offset ...