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Industry funds lead website experience

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 23 NOV 2018
... checking investments (0.7 points higher than retail), checking insurance (0.6 points higher), opening Transition to Retirement (TTR) accounts (0.7 higher) and locating Age Pension information (0.6 points higher). Corporate governance documents were tough ...

Super fund slashes fees, switches administrator

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 NOV 2018
... Members of West State Super saw admin fees reduce from 0.06% p.a. to 0.04% p.a. RI Allocated Pension and Transition to Retirement Pension admin fees changed from fee from 0.20% p.a. to 0.12% p.a.

Industry fund begins lifecycle pension strategy

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 24 APR 2018
... minimum balance in the cash option. The arrangement is now the default across REI's Retirement Pension and Transition to Retirement Pension. The new option follows the decision by the real estate industry fund to adopt the Insurance in Superannuation ...

New law tightens unpaid SG penalties

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAR 2018
... will protect you, but that's not always the case." The new provisions, O'Dwyer added, will enable the transition to retirement income stream of a super fund member to be paid at death to their eligible dependants without having to be commuted and a new ...

GROW Super begins group insurance innovation

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAR 2018
... super should be delivered, and that is income for life from age 65. At the moment, we have accumulation, transition to retirement and then the pension phase - it does not make sense to anybody else outside of this room, to them they just have a super ...

Is risk advice at risk?

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 27 FEB 2018
... same education qualifications as financial planners. "To do this job, they do not need to understand transition to retirement strategies, the intricacies of managed funds, or the latest superannuation caps legislation. That kind of education is not appropriate," ...

O'Dwyer proposes TRIS changes

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 13 FEB 2018
The Federal Government is pushing for reversionary transition to retirement income streams (TRIS) to be paid to an eligible dependent upon a death, regardless if a condition of release is met. Minister for Revenue and Financial Services Kelly O'Dwyer ...

Super funds that embrace change will prevail: DST

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 30 JAN 2018
... concert with insurers" to provide competitive retirement investment products; services to simplify the transition to retirement; and advice and support "to help members manage their retirement investments as their lifestyle and circumstances change over ...

SMSFs grappling with super changes

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 12 JAN 2018
... under $1.6 million as well as considering CGT relief for those affected by the transfer balance cap and transition to retirement changes," he said. Consequently, members paid less attention to the longer-term strategies, namely optimising estate planning. ...

TRIS tops adviser query list

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  THURSDAY, 9 NOV 2017
Transition to retirement income streams strategies remain a priority for financial advisers according BT Financial Group. The BTFG Advice Technical division said in its September quarter round-up the business found the top two queries made by financial ...