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Former Challenger executive joins HUB24

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 DEC 2017
... and strategy, and group chief financial officer. Rogan is also the founder of Retirement Essentials, a fintech helping retirees manage their finances. Webber, who joined HUB24 in October 2012, will retire from the board effective 1 March 2018. His experience ...

Salt reveals retirement hotspots

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 DEC 2017
... New analysis from Demographics Group managing director Bernard Salt has revealed the lifestyle hotspots for Australian retirees in 2017. Commissioned by the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) and presented at its recent conference ...

ASFA disappointed in Royal Commission scope

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 1 DEC 2017
... retirement systems globally in terms of sustainability, adequacy and integrity," ASFA said. "An increasing number of retirees now have significant private income above the age pension, with many more now able to achieve a comfortable standard of living ...

Financial Synergy founder launches new firm

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 27 NOV 2017
... years on average longer than the typical age of retirement, which is currently 65 years. Today more than 50 percent of retirees live longer, creating a significant risk each pensioner's retirement funds may run out before they die. Longevity risk is ...

Big bedrooms pose challenge for planners

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 24 NOV 2017
... cosmopolitan influences, Salt said lifestyles are requiring new measures of sophistication. He said baby boomers and retirees, not millennials, are creating a new stage in the global lifecycle. In Australia the most common age of retirement is 58, and ...

Jeremy Cooper explores the inconvenient truth of super

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 20 NOV 2017
... superannuation industry and its regulators need to address an inconvenient truth: the system is wholly unprepared for retirees. Speaking at the Financial Services Council Retirement Income Products Conference in Sydney, Cooper said that even Paul Keating ...

ATO warns SMSFs about risky arrangements

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 17 NOV 2017
... ATO is "working hard to shut down illegal arrangements quickly." O'Halloran also warned SMSF trustees and self-funded retirees, including small business owners and those involved in property development with significant assets, that they may be overtly ...

Fund managers' transparency poor: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 10 NOV 2017
... investment strategy. Any misalignment between super funds, fund managers and investors may create long-term deterioration on retirees' retirement savings, warned Monash University associate professor Paul Lajbcygier. The report suggests one way the Australian ...

Property investing key to outlasting super

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 7 NOV 2017
Pre-retirees can retire comfortably on passive income if they start investing in the property market now, according to property consultancy firm WealthMart. As much $80,000 per annum can be earned from a portfolio of properties that generate positive ...

Super guarantee must be 12pct: ASFA

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 27 OCT 2017
... system is delivering larger superannuation balances to both men and women, and in turn lifting the living standards for retirees, however there's still quite a gap to reach comfortable and modest retirement levels. ASFA chief executive Martin Fahy said ...