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Rantall to step down as FPA CEO

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 19 NOV 2015
... and consumers benefit from proposed industry and government reforms." The FPA board acknowledged Rantall's work with a Lifetime Achievement Award.

NAB and FPA back super in PPL

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 NOV 2015
... consider raising the amount available under the scheme. NAB has called for the Senate to investigate and implement a lifetime cap on super contributions or a cap on the super balance that can be converted to a tax-free retirement income. "This may assist ...

ASIC grilled on whistleblower compensation

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 9 NOV 2015
... approach of paying bounties is the right way to go," but added that "whistleblowers should be compensated for their loss of lifetime income, potentially out of penalties." Medcraft also proposed that companies reward their own whistleblowers, something ...

Aged care concerns top Challenger advice list

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 30 OCT 2015
... means test because the home is excluded among other advantages. Challenger's CarePlus aims to combine the benefits of a lifetime annuity and providing regular income for aged care costs with life risk insurance providing estate planning certainty. The ...

Mercer creates new role for innovation

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 30 OCT 2015
Mercer has announced two internal appointments as an approach to increase collaboration between the firm's investments and retirement businesses as well as increase its focus of product and innovation. Former retirement business leader Guy Thorburn ...

International actuaries have consensus on retirement

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 OCT 2015
... confuse those nearing and in retirement. The paper, 'The challenge of longevity risk: Making retirement income last a lifetime', suggests there is a political appetite in each region for changes to their respective retirement income systems but sustainability ...

Deloitte super plan could save budget $6bn

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 26 OCT 2015
... abolished for everyone under 50-years-old. The cap would then be raised for everyone else - subject to a safety net of a lifetime cap. "Depending on how the super savings are used - to cut taxes that really hurt our economy, or to fund social spending ...

Women to inherit 70% of intergenerational wealth: report

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 26 OCT 2015
... if not more in many cases. For example, women earn on average 18.8% less and have $700,000 less than men during their lifetime. "Gender pay gaps existed in every state and across every industry...we have to address these things, we have to talk about ...

Retirement incomes become industry focus

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2015
... and increasingly we're seeing annuities being incorporated in to other products. While we're seeing more fixed term and lifetime annuities I think what people are waiting for is to see more deferred annuities which have a lot to say for the later stage ...

PROFILE: Blue Sky managing director Mark Sowerby

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2015
... when Sowerby put in place a plan to set up Blue Sky, having identified what he calls the investment opportunity of a lifetime when water licenses and land title were separated by the government in 2005. Blue Sky Private Equity was established in July ...