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Platforms ramp up innovation, back-end efficiencies

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 16 FEB 2024
... discounted platform administration fees to clients, targeting a total cost to client of less than 1%. For retirement products, AMP's MyNorth Lifetime leads the way in offering a guaranteed stream of lifetime income that afford advisers the flexibility ...

Industry needs better retirement advice blueprint: Expert

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 30 NOV 2023
... [navigating the retirement phase] is becoming more complicated. There are about half a dozen new individual retirement products on the market. How advisers can best help clients understand and use them is the question we are trying to address," he said. ...

Commonwealth Super Corp selects Challenger for retirement products

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 28 NOV 2023
Commonwealth Superannuation Corporation (CSC) has joined forces with Challenger to launch the next stage of its retirement income strategy in early 2024. The longevity solution was developed by CSC under its RIS program to help meet its customer's ...

Allianz Retire+ heavyweight jumps ship

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 17 NOV 2023
... providing sensible household-level advice will drop. And financial advice will be much more available, enabling retirement products and services to be offered to more people. "Some of those protocols already exist for a particular purpose. If we think ...

Super fund fees now at record low: Data

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 14 NOV 2023
... administration fees, in contrast to retail funds which typically offer lower investment fees. Meanwhile, personal and retirement products have higher average fees at 1.16% and 1.07% per annum, respectively. The research house also found that despite ...

Frontier calls out structural super fund flaws

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 30 OCT 2023
... adhered to this "suboptimal approach" in practice. "This misalignment is a result of the complexity of existing retirement products and the challenges members face when navigating income strategies," Frontier said. Frontier Advisors principal consultant ...

AMP names super, investments lead

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 24 OCT 2023
... before leaving for personal reasons. Between 1993 and 2004, she was BTFG's director of superannuation and retirement products. In the intervening years, she worked in senior roles that included leading the Actuaries Institute as chief executive and ...

TelstraSuper revamps strategy team

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 29 SEP 2023
... retirement. Buoyed by the Retirement Income Covenant, pension funds are gearing up to meet a growing need for retirement products. Like some of its peers, TelstraSuper has long provided members with financial advice and retirement products to help members ...

Government must do more after product failures: FSC, SCA

JAMIE WILLIAMSON, RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 SEP 2023
... government for cracking down on "shoddy" Choice products, it believes the test now needs to be further expanded to retirement products. Labelling it "a major blindspot", O'Halloran said: "This leaves Australian retirees without protection when they need ...

Westpac closes Specialist Businesses Division

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 20 JUL 2023
... house the business lines that Westpac deemed to lack sufficient scale, being platforms, superannuation and retirement products, investments, general and life insurance, auto finance, and Westpac Pacific. Jason Yetton was appointed to lead the review ...