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Australia world class in retirement wellbeing

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 SEP 2020
... hardship measures to access superannuation with its early release of super scheme but the future impacts on retirement savings are unclear. "It's too early for the GRI to assess the impact of the early access scheme to future retirement outcomes. What ...

Pension funds sue Allianz Global Investors

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2020
... Allianz Global Investors for allegedly engaging in risk-taking behaviour and losing billions of dollars in retirement savings. The Arkansas Teacher Retirement System (ATRS) was the first pension fund to file a complaint in July, alleging that Allianz ...

Westpac scraps SG direct debits

KARREN VERGARA, JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 21 SEP 2020
... through this process," the spokesperson said. Failure to comply with SG obligations has robbed workers of their retirement savings worth $3.6 billion, based on Australian Tax Office estimates from 2015. Industry Super Australia thinks this figure is ...

Portfolio insurance provides strong protection: Research

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 17 SEP 2020
... need to consider more sustainable income flows as a future investment objective or risk not having adequate retirement savings, according to research from the Centre for Excellence in Population Ageing Research (CEPAR). CEPAR senior research associate ...

Rest climate change case pushes ahead

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 SEP 2020
... The information McVeigh is interested in particularly relates to the impacts climate change could have on his retirement savings with Rest. After McVeigh's initial claim was filed, Rest did correspond with him. However, McVeigh remained unsatisfied ...

ERS applications flat line

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2020
There appears to be an end in sight for the withdrawal of Australian's retirement savings, with the latest APRA figures showing the amount of applications has flat lined at around three million. Over the week to September 6, only 49,000 applications ...

HESTA adds to leadership team

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2020
... roles at Austock Asset Management and Challenger Funds Management. "HESTA has been entrusted with investing the retirement savings of Australia's front-line carers for more than 30 years," Sheen said. "I feel incredibly proud and privileged to join ...

Increased SG equals increased fees: Research

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 11 SEP 2020
... only add to these costs, creating even more jobs for blow-hard spreadsheet monkeys who pay themselves from our retirement savings."

ERS sees Cbus members forfeit TPD cover

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 11 SEP 2020
... particularly strongly about the increase to SG as a member who is between 25 and 29 typically has 56% of the retirement savings of the general population. "If we extend that out to persons aged 65 years, our Cbus members retired typically with one third ...

Adviser demands answers from Media Super

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 8 SEP 2020
... as a direct result of her PTSD. Media Super has already granted the woman access to her roughly $80,000 in retirement savings, acknowledging her inability to work. But, the TPD claim for $110,000 was declined on the basis that the client had demonstrated ...