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Default insurance likely to go: Silk

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 15 NOV 2019
... play in the superannuation industry," Silk said. The AustralianSuper boss said the issues of insurance in super were a problem of the industry's making, noting the super and insurance sectors put themselves in the firing line without government or regulatory ...

Defined contribution: A global perspective

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 14 NOV 2019
... issue in the US - with people withdrawing or taking loans from their retirement savings - but not the biggest. "The big problem is people have many, many jobs during their career. Each time, they have the opportunity to take their money out. It's taxed ...

TAL launching new product

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 14 NOV 2019
... activites amongst customers. TAL chief commercial officer, individual life, Tim Thorne said: "Diabetes is a challenging problem for public health worldwide and the life insurance market for people living with diabetes is underserved. "While some people ...

FASEA attempting to re-write law: AFA

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 NOV 2019
... permitted under the code and what will not, with less than two months until commencement and no obvious way to fix this problem," Anderson said. "With all forms of commissions and asset-based fees now in doubt, 57% of financial adviser practice income ...

Chi-X forced to be client of competition

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 4 NOV 2019
... of being the ASX's biggest competitor and also one of its biggest clients for clearing and settlements services. "The problem is, if we don't like the clearing and settlements service they give us, we can't go to another one down the road," Somes sum ...

Cbus chief opposes default longevity requirements for CIPRs

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 1 NOV 2019
... blanket regulation. "And to be frank, among our membership and in the broader population, there remains the more significant problem of members spending too little of their retirement savings as a form of self-insurance against a future capital needs," ...

Industry fund offers bonus on income streams

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 31 OCT 2019
A $54 billion industry fund is nudging its older members towards income streams with a bonus of up to 2%, as it develops its retirement income solutions. Cbus will introduce a bonus for members upon retirement, with chief executive David Atkin saying ...

Chief economist update: RBA rate cut outlook

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 31 OCT 2019
... stuck at 0.75% and we just have to wait until the economy catches up with the lagged effects of monetary policy. I have no problem with that. That'll be good... if the economy operates in a vacuum. But it doesn't. Apart from inflation still below-target ...

US manager eyes Aussie retirement income

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 OCT 2019
... has a lower standard deviation (volatility) than the MSCI World Index but a lower sharpe ratio than it. In the past the problem has been explaining the product to superannuation funds, where equity heads and fixed income heads have been siloed from each ...

Inflation the forgotten risk to retiree portfolios

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 OCT 2019
Advisers should not underrate inflation risk when building retirement income portfolios for clients, an AMP Capital portfolio manager told attendees at Financial Standard Retirement Income Best Practice Forum in Sydney this morning. Speaking during ...