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Superannuation needs change: Keating

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2012
... superannuation lump-sum payments. The Government would be most suited to running such a fund, especially since the aged pension it finances is the currently the only real backstop against longevity risk, he said. Another option would be lifting superannuation ...

Low-volatility post-retirement solutions needed: Bell

MARK STORY  |  THURSDAY, 15 NOV 2012
... isn't a lay-down misere, and so investors need to turn to low volatility products like reverse mortgages and the aged pension system," he concluded.

Consumers clueless on retirement: Bateman

MARK STORY  |  THURSDAY, 15 NOV 2012
... better understand liquidity issues and the role of bonds. "Consumers should be encouraged to use savings to add to the aged pension rather than blow them at retirement."

Aust super system failing retirees

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 OCT 2012
Australia is headed for a retirement savings disaster, with increasing numbers of baby boomers resorting to the aged pension after spending their entire superannuation to pay off debt, a CPA Australia study has shown. In light of the new study findings ...

SG increase the key to global pension top spot

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 OCT 2011
... report, David Knox, told Financial Standard Australia jumped two places from fourth in 2010 because it raised its Aged Pension two years ago and increases in household savings rates. "That increases the pension for the poorest age, but also increases ...

In defence of superannuation

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 15 AUG 2011
... compulsory savings still don't have enough in their retirement incomes to allow much more than a bit of super and the aged pension. "And the Gillard Government wants to change that. That's why we're pushing from 9 to 12 per cent." Fuelling discontent ...

Energy Super offers online "next generation" pensions calculator

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUN 2011
... accuracy than fixed calculators. Developed by software firm Provisio, the new calculator incorporates Centrelink aged pension entitlements, the company said. It also provides recommendations to bridge any shortfall between a member's expected and desired ...

Super problems to short-change retirees

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAY 2011
... do give good inflation hedging were difficult to manage for retirees as they were not liquid, he said. He said the aged pension was the perfect retirement product as it dealt with the problems of longevity and inflation. The problem is that it is means-tested ...

Equities don't work in retirement

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAY 2011
... superannuation's retirement phase, is for the wealth management sector to create products that look a lot more like the aged pension, argued Cooper. "What the industry needs to do is work out private ways that life insurance companies and superannuation ...

Regrets, I've had a few

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 7 APR 2011
... all when the global financial crisis struck. Almost half of the 1,000 retirees surveyed also expect to receive the aged pension yet only 31 per cent of current retirees are entitled to a full or part pension. Worse, those in their 40s and 50s underestimate ...