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Industry fund offers retirement income bonus

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  THURSDAY, 20 JUL 2017
An industry super fund is offering retirement reward incentives of up to $11,520 to customers who sign up to the fund's retirement pension plan. The offer from BUSSQ, which represents a transfer of the fund's tax surplus - gained when members transfer ...

Association launches retirement savings research hub

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 18 JUL 2017
The SMSF Association will establish a 'policy think tank' to provide thought leadership for the retirement savings market on financial and non-financial issues. The Global Centre of Excellence for Retirement Savings will be based in Adelaide and will ...

Plum Super launches retirement product

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 18 JUL 2017
... help Australians manage their superannuation in the lead up to and during retirement has hit the market. Plum Retirement Income, a Plum Super (wholly NAB-owned) initiative, will offer an account-based pension for customers to convert their superannuation ...

Government closes super loophole

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 10 JUL 2017
... underlying cash balance by $470 million. "The Productivity Commission has recently found that transition to retirement income streams have increasingly been used by people for tax minimisation purposes without any reduction in work hours," Budget papers ...

Australia a nation changing fast: Census

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 27 JUN 2017
... plus the proportion of women rockets to 63%. The implications for aged care planning, household structures and retirement income product designs will be significant. Australia's population doubled in the past 50 years and is likely to double in the next ...

MyRetirement too product heavy: Morningstar

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 26 JUN 2017
... take an approach that goes beyond products, and for trustees to offer digital advice when it comes to providing retirement income solutions with the help of data and technology. Morningstar managing director of research strategy for Asia Pacific Anthony ...

Location, location, location: the key to retirement

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JUN 2017
... 165,000-plus members are based in (or originally from) Tasmania. The $7.6 billion fund should use a different retirement income target than the Public Sector Superannuation accumulation plan (PSSap), which has a significant proportion of Canberra-based ...

Industry supports super threshold removal

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 20 JUN 2017
... unfair on workers who have multiple part-time or casual jobs," Atkin said. "This has a big impact on their final retirement income and ensures a greater reliance on the age pension in retirement. "We encourage the Government to look carefully at this ...

Super tax reforms take effect

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 16 JUN 2017
The suite of superannuation taxation reforms affecting contributions, CGT relief and transition to retirement income streams have passed through Parliament. Revenue and Financial Services Minister Kelly O'Dwyer said the amendments under the Treasury ...

Actuaries warn against one size fits all retirement products

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 5 JUN 2017
... approach to be reviewed as the product landscape evolves. It should not be compulsory to offer a particular type of retirement income product until we see how the market develops," Actuaries Institute president Jenny Lyon said. "Instead an 'if not why ...