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Mercer gets approval for MySuper product

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 1 NOV 2013
... of retirees." "Mercer SmartPath has a higher allocation to growth assets after retirement because we factor in the age pension, which acts as an annuity and means people can generally afford to have a higher allocation to growth assets, which improves ...

Pension rule changes to benefit 740,000

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 28 OCT 2013
... remains in line with the cash rate." Payments affected by the deeming rates include means tested payments such as the Age Pension, Disability Support Pension and Carer Payment, income support allowances and supplements such as the Parenting Payment and ...

Australians clueless about age pension

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 19 SEP 2013

Mercer trumpets "lifetime super concessional cap"

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 SEP 2013
... would probably result in considerable loss of tax revenue. Any budgetary benefit in the form decreased pressure on the Age Pension would be a long time coming, and would fall well out of the electoral cycle.

Coalition urged to rethink super slash costings

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 29 AUG 2013
... and WIS chair Cate Wood said the savings were "false economy", as they would result in increased expenditure on the Age Pension down the line. "The more money that is taken from the super system, the higher the cost to future governments to provide the ...

Whiteley and Brogden join forces to condemn CPA report

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 AUG 2013
... superannuation as a yet-to-mature system. "When mature," they said, "the superannuation system, combined with the age pension, will deliver replacement rates of around 80 per cent of pre-retirement income for average earners with super delivering 50 ...

ISN criticises "irresponsible" CPA super report

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 26 AUG 2013
... possibility that, superannuation savings will be inadequate for retirement, expectations will be crushed, and the age pension will be put under considerable strain. The system, therefore, will have failed," Malley said.

Govt to index military age pensions

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUL 2013
... aged 65 and over who will benefit from this announcement. The PBLCI was first used as an indexation factor for the age pension in September 2009 and the government has decided to include it in the indexation of military superannuation retirement pay ...

Breaking Australia's love affair with the lump sum

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 29 JUL 2013
... Standard. If superannuation does not do what it is meant to - provide for people's retirement - the pressure on the Age Pension will be too great. "We can't assume the Age Pension can stay in its current format," she said. Lump sum payments have traditionally ...

Fund chief calls for cap on super lump sum payments

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUL 2013
... into an environment where there's less and less tax payers there supporting one of those pillars of our system, the Age Pension." "Perhaps one of the things we really need to think about there is introducing some sort of a cap on how much lump sum people ...