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Super fund gets ahead of CIPR obscurity

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 15 SEP 2020
... the lack of guidance from the federal government - which continues to back down on its Comprehensive Income Retirement Products (CIPRs) proposal. RetireSmart was constructed to be flexible with the view that it will eventually be CIPR-compliant, he said ...

Industry funds triumph July performance

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2020
... pension at 1.9% and Vision Super's balanced growth at 1.8%. UniSuper took out the top two spots for growth retirement products with its sustainable high growth pension returning 5.6% over one year, 11.5% over three years, 9% over five years, 11.7% over ...

Rejigging retirement income: First Sentier Investors

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 10 AUG 2020
... a view that if someone can't explain something then it's unable to be used, particularly when it comes to retirement products. "There is a requirement to bridge the knowledge gap between the finance industry professionals and the end consumer. There ...

Westpac to review business units

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2020
... where the returns are insufficient for the risk," he said. These include wealth platforms, superannuation and retirement products, investments, and general and life insurance and auto finance, he added. It will also include Westpac Pacific. Commenting ...

COVID-19 to hasten merger talks

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAR 2020
... members "bland and related to personal circumstances". "Those funds which use bucketing strategies with their retirement products are better placed. Members can continue to draw pensions from cash and not panic about the fall in the rest of their portfolio ...

Industry fund introduces new fee

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 FEB 2020
... products and services at the lowest possible cost. We recently reduced the fees for members invested in our retirement products." "Depending on the member's investment option or account balance the reduction was from 6 bp to 36 bp. At the same time we ...

Cbus Super chief to exit

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2020
... In recent months, Atkin has also spoken about the flaws in CIPRs legislation and the fund's stance that retirement products must give trustees the discretion to tailor them for their members' needs. "Cbus members fought for and won the right ...

US manager eyes Aussie retirement income

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 OCT 2019
... heads and fixed income heads have been siloed from each other. "Now they have a person tasked with building retirement products so it's easier to explain the product," a Terrain managing director Jim Richards said.

CommInsure eyes deferred lifetime annuities

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 18 OCT 2019
... retirement income products. Lytas also thinks that DLAs could find use in developing comprehensive income retirement products (CIPRs). Superannuation trustees are required to have a retirement income strategy in place from 1 July 2020 but are not required ...

Calls for better drawdown rules

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 SEP 2019
... including retirement income objectives, retirement income estimates, well designed draw-down rules and better retirement products. "Careful use of the term 'income' which could confuse members with the dual meaning of investment earnings and ...