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Optimum Pensions partners with Generation Life

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 19 JAN 2021
... David Orford's Optimum Pensions has signed a five-year exclusive agreement with Generation Life to bring its retirement income product to the market. Generation Life will manufacture, administer, market and distribute an investment-linked pension ...

Fidelity enters UK advice market

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 19 JAN 2021
... currently has five advisers who specialise in offering safeguarded benefit transfer, lifetime allowance and retirement income advice supported by four pension transfer specialists. A further six advisers will be joining in January who will focus on investment ...

Chief economist update: The virus, the vaccine, the variant

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 JAN 2021
"Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water." - Jaws About this time last year, the world was alerted - but only mildly alarmed - at yet another SARS-like disease spreading in Wuhan, China (the first confirmed case reported on December ...

Challenger to buy industry-fund-owned bank

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 DEC 2020
Challenger will spend $35 million to buy Catholic Super's banking business, in a move that Bell Porter says could have more upside than suggested by the company this morning. Challenger and MyLife MyFinance have entered into an agreement with an expected ...

FS team picks: The top stories for 2020

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR, KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 17 DEC 2020
... probe new longevity risk products for retiree members, which could include tweaking account-based pensions. Retirement Income Review revealed Treasury kept us waiting for months before dropping the more than 600-page long Retirement Income Review. The ...

Super leaves gig economy behind

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 DEC 2020
... gig economy workers are more likely to be reliant on the government-funded Age Pension scheme to fund their retirement income." The Actuaries Institute called for more data to be collected to adequately address this and other issues facing gig economy ...

Household capital a retirement solution: Research

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 14 DEC 2020
The potential fourth pillar of retirement income, accessing household capital, could be the solution to a comfortable retirement, new research shows. The latest research from Heartland Seniors Finance conducted by RMIT University found 90% of senior ...

Commonwealth Super awards mandate for new strategy

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 14 DEC 2020
Commonwealth Superannuation Corporation, the $50 billion fund for government employees, has launched a new partnership with a sustainable asset manager. CSC and Osmosis Investment Management have partnered to launch a Resource Efficient Core Equity ...

TAL group life lead in new role

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 DEC 2020
TAL's executive general manager of group life is set to take on a new role at Zurich in March. Darren Wickham has been appointed head of group insurance at Zurich, joining the insurer's leadership team. With about 30 years' experience as ...

Best super, pension fund revealed

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 3 DEC 2020
... Smartstart Super Pension was named best-value retirement product, beating out ANZ Smart Choice Pension and GESB Retirement Income Allocated Pension. Rest was awarded best value balanced product and QSuper was found to be the best value super fund for ...