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MLC bolsters group insurance team

KERRIE SYDEE  |  TUESDAY, 8 NOV 2016
MLC Life Insurance is renewing its focus on group insurance with five key appointments. MLC is expanding the team to include experienced price actuaries, insurance product experts and relationship managers all with institutional client experience. The ...

Retirement system needs work: Actuaries

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUL 2016
Australia's retirement system is not sustainable for people living longer than the average life expectancy if drawdown trends continue, according to the Actuaries Institute. The Institute says the number of super members to completely exhaust their ...

PROFILE: Mercer senior partner David Knox

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 16 MAY 2016
... pension age to be lifted to 67. Among other recommendations, the 2007 paper also called for the pension age to be linked with life expectancy. Knox recalls that initially both ideas were knocked back, before Rudd, in his very next budget, introduced ...

Actuaries call for objectives across retirement system

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 8 APR 2016
The Actuaries Institute has called for the Federal Government to go further than defining superannuation and complementary objectives for the Age Pension and the mandatory superannuation guarantee. Releasing its submission Treasury on super's objective ...

Actuaries re-enter super housing debate

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 14 MAR 2016
... to doubts over the ability of superannuation to provide a sustainable and comfortable income for most Australians over the life of their retirement. Institute president Lindsay Smartt said it is an emotional issue as many people do not see the family ...

Seniors react to Commission's retirement housing idea

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 DEC 2015
... "Australians would fiercely resist any government that forced them to take up reverse mortgages in retirement." PWC partner and Actuaries Institute housing working group head Catherine Nance said some smart thinking is needed about how to remove impediments ...

International actuaries have consensus on retirement

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 OCT 2015
... pension contributions and encourages the introduction of lifetime income guarantees or "intelligent default products." Actuaries Institute of Australia president Estelle Pearson said the paper underlines the significance of the Australian government's ...

Super doing its job: Actuaries Institute

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2015
The superannuation system is doing its job, a newly published white paper from the Actuaries Institute has concluded, but Financial System Inquiry chair David Murray argues it must be removed from political intervention. The new paper, 'For Richer or ...

NZ looks to Trowbridge for life reforms

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2015
New Zealand's Financial Services Council (FSC) has commissioned a report on life insurance advice, with Life Insurance and Advice Working Group chair John Trowbridge selected as an adviser for the project. Consulting actuaries Melville Jessup Weaver ...

Actuaries say super taxes need to be reviewed

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2015
... weighing in to a debate about the federal government's uncertain position regarding superannuation tax reform. Today the Actuaries Institute said there is growing clamour for clarity around superannuation taxation arrangements. In its submission to the ...