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Former MilitarySuper chief joins HOSTPLUS

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAR 2011
... the products and services available to our members...especially those seeking to use pre and post retirement advice, pensions and other retirement products," said Elia. Watson has previously been deputy chief executive officer at Australian Reward Investment ...

Dutch pension tackles longevity risk and ageing population

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 7 MAR 2011
... structure of the Netherlands' system. Bos said issues arise because of the system's goal of providing a nominal guarantee of pensions combined with an "indexation ambition". That is, the nominal guarantee is based on the average pay during the labor ...

Annuities help combat longevity risk: Cooper

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAR 2011
... use and for the customer to understand. They have been modernised to [suit] any platform and to sit inside allocated pensions," said Cooper. In the year to June 2010, Challenger wrote $2.2 billion in annuity sales, split almost evenly across retail and ...

PC recommends social insurance shake-up

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAR 2011
... they live and how independently wealth they are. The PC noted that these systemic flaws force people onto disability pensions and unemployment benefits, with the emphasis is on satisfying eligibility criteria rather than rehabilitation, thus distorting ...

AE large cap lagging index: Morningstar

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 FEB 2011
... allocate investments for more than 1200 different products including unit trusts, superannuation funds and allocated pensions. Despite the overall sector battling poor market conditions, Morningstar rated eight strategies as "highly recommended", including ...

Smarter annuities can plug retirement savings gap

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 10 FEB 2011
... the wider economy is not a new issue but more needs to be done in the area. Evans, deputy director of the Centre for Pensions and Superannuation at the UNSW Australian School of Business, is critical of the government for 'waiting for a disaster to happen' ...

Lift NZ retirement age to 67

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 DEC 2010
... older New Zealanders," she said. Her proposal involves, from 2020, to begin raising the age of eligibility for retirement pensions by two months per year, so that it reaches 67 by 2033. However for those with insufficient savings a transitional means-tested ...

Hungary nationalises private pensions

JOHN MCDULING  |  TUESDAY, 30 NOV 2010
The Hungarian government has effectively nationalised the private pensions of its citizens in an effort to plug holes in the country's finances. Confirming savers and foreign investors worst fears, the national economy minister, Gyorgy Matolcsy announced ...

No pension for corrupt Bell staff

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 15 NOV 2010
The largest pension fund in the US, CalPERS, will not pay the pensions of certain City of Bell staff following investigations into salary corruption among some of the city's top officials. The California Public Employees' Retirement System said it would ...

Longevity products in early stages

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 11 NOV 2010
... used to add a lifetime income guarantee on top of conventional self-managed superannuation fund (SMSF) account-based pensions and transition to retirement (TTR) strategies.