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UK announces new Pension Schemes Bill

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUL 2024
... individual deferred small pension pots, allowing multiple deferred savings accounts to be combined to maximise retirement income. The government added that this would benefit pension schemes as many are currently managing loss-making pots, undermining ...

Equip Super returns 9.23% to members

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUL 2024
... November 2023, buoyant equity markets, driven by expectations of rate cuts, enhanced returns. Equip Super's Retirement Income Account members also saw healthy returns, with the Retirement Income Balanced Growth option delivering a 9.88% return for FY24. ...

Adviser queries jump 40%: AMP

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUL 2024
... the most common topics raised by AMP's adviser network for the half year ending June 30 included innovative retirement income streams, navigating limited recourse borrowing arrangements as well as aged care. "The last six months have seen a significant ...

APRA heightens expectations around trustees' spending

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUL 2024
... front-and-centre in trustees' strategic and business planning, financial resource management, implementation of the retirement income covenant and fund transfers." The regulator wants to ensure that all decisions, particularly around expenditure, are ...

Brighter Super launches Retire Easy Pension

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUL 2024
... buckets. Launching the product last month, Brighter Super said it marks the first stage of the fund's new retirement income strategy "which is designed to help more members live comfortably in retirement." The product takes a bucketing approach ...

Morningstar names new manager research lead

ELIZABETH FRY  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUL 2024
... strategic leadership across financial services and superannuation. He was most recently head of research and retirement income at Insignia Financial leaving the business as part of an ongoing wider change last month. During his six years at Insignia ...

Retirement Income Covenant still weak: APRA, ASIC

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUL 2024
Superannuation funds continue to grapple with their retirement income strategy obligations, citing financial advice regulation uncertainty, costs, and the lack of member engagement as major barriers. This is according to joint oversight by ASIC and ...

Betashares promotes key sales execs

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUN 2024
... solutions as part of Betashares' planned move into superannuation. At Vanguard, Hatch established the fund's retirement income strategy. Before his three years there, he was a senior product design manager at AustralianSuper. He earlier oversaw ...

Inflation weighing on next generation of retirees

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 20 JUN 2024
... (56%) said they would need professional advice to achieve their financial planning goals (48%) and specific retirement income planning services (44%). However, 49% of Gen Xers reported that they preferred digital advice over in-person services, marking ...

GBST, Wipro join forces on holistic administration service

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JUN 2024
... operational efficiency, reduce costs, improve customer experience, and enable proposition expansion, like innovative retirement income solutions.