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2022 is the hardest year to retire: Report

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 SEP 2022
... risks with their portfolio to make up the ground they've already lost. Both will make it hard to preserve retirement savings and make it harder to attain a secure retirement." A separate survey recently conducted by Natixis IM found that 49% of advisers ...

Mind the managed accounts roadblocks: MLC

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 SEP 2022
... outcomes versus client outcomes. "As an industry, most of the content and literature that's written is about time savings, efficiencies and the impacts on practice valuations but none of that can be copied and pasted into an SLA because it's ...

Financial stress at record highs: AMP

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 SEP 2022
... communities are at a significant disadvantage compared to the non-indigenous population in terms of meeting expenses, savings balances and use of financial products and services. Meanwhile, on how financial stress affects workers, 21% of employees admitted ...

Final Royal Commission reforms to be tabled, YFYS review begins

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 SEP 2022
... members' fees through multiple sets of fees and ensuring that members weren't getting the full value of their retirement savings, but we understood that there were going to be some consequences to the way the former government set stapling up ...

Affordable housing super's Achilles' heel: Weaven

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 6 SEP 2022
... Rubin said that if she were re-designing the superannuation system today, she would address the lower levels of retirement savings for women. "The system was designed for full-time permanent workers, and we can see now when we look at the retirement ...

Financial literacy in Australia drops by almost 10%

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 6 SEP 2022
... financial literacy, backed up by financial planning activities such as having a household budget or setting longer-term savings goals, is as important as ever. The report also revealed that 13.4% of Australians have received financial hardship assistance ...

Not enough being done to fix super gap: AIST

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 6 SEP 2022
... money from their superannuation during the pandemic's early release of super scheme will struggle to make up the COVID savings gap, particularly women. "We want to ensure that governments resist the temptation to tinker with super in future, especially ...

IFM Investors appoints chief strategy officer

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 5 SEP 2022
... ESG and sustainability, which we believe helps us deliver on our purpose to protect and grow the long-term retirement savings of working people," Neal said. "She will lead IFM's global strategy to continue to meet the needs of our investors and their ...

Data demonstrates success of compulsory super: Report

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 AUG 2022
... research John McCallum said. "On just about every score on superannuation, women trail men." When thinking about accumulated savings and investments, 48.7% of people said that they would maintain only part of their capital because they expected to spend ...

Four MySuper products fail for second time: APRA

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 AUG 2022
... of the result. Combined, the failed products are home to about 600,000 members and close to $28 billion in retirement savings. Those that failed for a second time have until September 28 to notify their members. They can now not take on any new members ...