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Make super review your New Year's resolution

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 11 DEC 2012
... average retirement savings gap per Australian is estimated to be nearly $80,000." MLC also recommends investors consider salary sacrifice superannuation contributions, diverting cash flow from a home loan into super, off-setting capital gains tax by ...

Financial service execs earn big bucks

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 26 NOV 2012
... executives continue to be among the best paid professionals, according to the Australian Financial Review's latest executive salary report. Unsurprisingly, Big Four bank bosses feature prominently high up the list with ANZ chief Mike Smith taking top ...

Retirees must invest in equities: State Street

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 22 NOV 2012
... of cash may be tempting, it is critically important for investors in their early retirement years who no longer earn a salary to have some element of capital growth in their portfolios," she said. "Investors who want their retirement savings to last ...

$1bn unpaid contributions returned

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 12 OCT 2012
... David Gibson, IFCC general manager, said these unpaid contributions include both compulsory employer contributions and salary sacrifice amounts. "By law, employers must pay their employees' super contributions on a quarterly or monthly basis. This is ...

Most funds to offer default IP for MySuper

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 2 OCT 2012
... IP and cited cost, personal nature of the protection, and the difficulty of aligning income protection with reasonable salary levels as a default product, as the major reasons why it would not be included. AIA Australia general manager, life insurance ...

Retirement adequacy hits post-GFC low: AMP

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 27 SEP 2012
... average worker's total superannuation contributions falling to the lowest level since the Index began in 2006 - at 12.3% of salary compared to 12.6% as at 31 December 2006, mainly due to a fall in voluntary contribution rates, said AMP. "The Index shows ...

Razor to board's pay follows PwC review

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2012
... perpetual after only a year, with the board sighting a difference in opinion over the direction of the company. Lloyd's total salary and incentives totaled $1.61 million, which is 16% less than Ryan, who left Perpetual with around $2.2 million, which ...

AMP launches group insurance offering

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  TUESDAY, 28 AUG 2012
... cover for new employees, under certain conditions. The AMP Group Insurance offers Total and Permanent Disability cover and Salary Continuance when a non-work related illness prevents an employee from attending work on the their first day of eligibility ...

ANZ CEO sells shares to fund debt, tax

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 27 AUG 2012
... Smith's shareholding in the bank is unchanged, with a total of 1,172,370 ordinary shares, said ANZ. ANZ has frozen the salary of its top executives and earlier this year announced plans to cut 1,000 jobs in 2012 in an effort to protect profits. ANZ recently ...

AMP updates FLP insurance offering

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  MONDAY, 20 AUG 2012
... health status. AMP has also changed its eligibility criteria for FLP's in-built GFI for Income Protection and Temporary Salary Continuance, which will allow more people to access this feature. Ashton said this valuable feature was previously only available ...