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FSC appoints AMP exec to the board

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAY 2014
... overseas. She joined AMP in early 2013 and is responsible for AMP's risk insurance, retail superannuation, investment, pensions and platforms business portfolio. Prior to joining AMP, Blight-Johnston was managing director of RGA Reinsurance Company of ...

Budget reply speech 2014 -15: Bill Shorten

Budget speech 2014 -15

... entitlements will be wound back for former and current MPs before the scheme is abolished. As I said, we all must contribute. Pensions are a significant source of income for almost four million Australians. We promised at the last election not to change ...

Equip to launch pension version of MySuper

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAY 2014
... Financial Standard. "But at the moment deferred annuities don't work from a tax perspective and they don't work in allocated pensions." She added: "I'd love to sell deferred annuities to my 40-year-olds. Because at 40 deferred annuities are cheap."

Industry responds to super fees study

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 29 APR 2014
... comparison between Australian super fund fees and those of international funds was misleading. "With regards to international pensions, most have a greater allocation to cash and bonds.A These have lower fees, but lower long-term performance and many ...

FoFA amendments undermine confidence in advisers: Shorten

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 28 APR 2014
... the Age Pension: "don't say nine times in a 32-election period when you're chasing people's vote that they won't touch pensions and then as soon as you get elected have twisted priorities and broken promises and introduce a new deceit tax." The opposition ...

British govt to introduce pension choice

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAR 2014
The British government is proposing a radical overhaul of the nation's private pensions system and will introduce choice of retirement product and simplify retiree taxation structures. The proposals were announced in the British 2014 Budget that was ...

Annual global dividends pass $1 trillion for first time

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 24 FEB 2014
... interest rates in recent years. It marks a generational shift as ageing populations must increasingly rely less on state pensions and more on their own savings to provide for retirement. Not only that, but they will need to stay invested in equities ...

Looming pension deeming rules "lack clarity"

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2014
The changes to the deeming rules for account based pensions look likely to be passed by the Parliament this year, with SPAA warning SMSF trustees to be prepared despite the lack of available information. SPAA senior manager, technical and policy Jordan ...

SMSF industry welcomes more flexible penalties

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 20 FEB 2014
... improvement. "As a result of the ATO'S final ruling on when a pension begins and ceases, a more disciplined approach to pensions, particularly in relation to when a pension starts and when a partial commutation request is received, is needed," Burgess ...