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Time to move beyond "cheap and generic" retirement products: Milliman

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAR 2018
... Retirement Standard at $44,011 per annum for a single person aged around 65 and $60,457 for a couple, the vast majority of retirees Milliman surveyed spend less than that. Furthermore, when attempting to gauge people's realistic expectations of how much ...

Staggering annuities can fund retirement shortfall

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAR 2018
... retirement strategy expert and professor from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton Business School, said it can cost retirees 30% to 40% more money to fund retirement without an annuity. Babbel, who visited Sydney to host financial planning events ...

ASFA slams Grattan's super proposals

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 22 FEB 2018
... paper said. Further, increasing it will deliver little in the way of higher retirement incomes to future generations of retirees, because any increase in super savings will be largely offset by lower Age Pension payments for most households. Consequently ...

Retirees force the politics of income

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 9 FEB 2018
... Aberdeen Standard Investments chief economist Jeremy Lawson told the 2018 Financial Standard Chief Economists Forum that retirees' influence on populism is a major dilemma for asset managers globally. Since the Global Financial Crisis retirees have revised ...

Planners preferred over super for wealthier retirees: Research

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 FEB 2018
... the ability to achieve them) varied across different retiree segments. Investment Trends categorised these as active retirees, who are in good health; semi-active retirees, who are in need of "a little assistance"; and dependent retirees, who are in ...

Pension phase SMSFs prefer Aussie equities

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 2 FEB 2018
... from the more than 150,000 SMSFs on Class validates this, but importantly delivers depth around the types of investments retirees are embracing," Class chief executive Kevin Bungard said. "It will be interesting to track how investment preferences change ...

Super funds that embrace change will prevail: DST

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 30 JAN 2018
... course, welcome) leads to financial adequacy and certainty concerns for Australians," DST said. "The growing number of retirees creates an increasing funding and social support issue for government. Superannuation funds themselves are feeling pressure ...

Derivatives costly and ineffective: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 29 JAN 2018
... research shows. Only one-third (37%) of superannuation funds in Milliman's latest survey are using derivatives to protect retirees against market downturns. Milliman head of fund advisory services Michael Armitage said more than half (53%) of super funds ...

Population growth drives real income

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 25 JAN 2018
... Australia's continued population growth and the Federal Government's support of an open immigration policy will be critical for retirees seeking sustainable investment income. These key drivers lend themselves to further investment in and development ...

FS has you covered in 2017

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 22 DEC 2017
... imposing a significant threat to the adequacy of Australia's retirement income system. It said if the trend continues retirees will be increasingly forced to use superannuation to discharge outstanding mortgages, seeing more people rely on the Age Pension. ...