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Planner annuity interest climbs

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 APR 2012
... 2012 if they were available to them," said Peker. Long and short term annuities were the most popular with lifetime annuities holding a smaller subset of the market with only 9% of planners recommending the use of lifetime fixed annuities and a mere ...

Call for new generation annuities

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 3 FEB 2012
... Australia's ageing population, the Actuaries Institute has recommended that proposed tax disincentives on deferred lifetime annuities be culled to allow local market use along with new generation of products that cater for new client demands and a younger ...

Challenger results prove annuity winner

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 22 AUG 2011
... advisers who want greater flexibility for customers who use platforms." Challenger may also bring in Deferred lifetime annuities (DLAs), which currently require minor legislative changes to put the product on an equal footing with other super products. ...

Rainmaker reveals 2011 Sales & Marketing Excellence Awards

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUL 2011
... 'Future-proof your retirement' campaign. It also bagged the best innovation of the year award for its Liquid Lifetime Annuities. Australian Super's Brook Carter and Paul Schroder picked up awards for marketer of the year (superannuation) and wealth executive ...

Super problems to short-change retirees

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAY 2011
... sum. He said insurance solutions should be considered rather than just the current wealth-management approach. Lifetime annuities needed to be a bigger part of a retiree's defensive allocation. Private pensions also had a role to play, he said.

Speed bumps to annuities

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAR 2011
... according to a Towers Watson report. Under the current tax and the age pension means test provisions, deferred lifetime annuities are penalised during the deferment period, restricting the development of annuities and further innovation in related products ...

Annuities help combat longevity risk: Cooper

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAR 2011
... $343 million. Challenger has been advocating the removal of unintended impediments to the issuance of deferred lifetime annuities, with the Financial Services Council (FSC) now supporting that stance. Within the FSC's pre-budget submission to the Government ...

Smarter annuities can plug retirement savings gap

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 10 FEB 2011
... until you die. Very straight forward, everyone can understand it and the cheque comes in," said Evans. For lifetime annuities to become a more viable option, they require some government backing to counter the unknown risks of declines, inflation and ...

Govt is longevity insurer of last resort

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 13 AUG 2010
... investment. The new product also follows the Henry Review's recommendations in support of both lifetime and deferred lifetime annuities, said a Challenger spokesperson. In October last year, ING Australia launched MoneyForLife, a retirement product that ...

Challenger injects more liquidity into annuities

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAY 2010
... market], and we have a different approach to managing longevity and that can be done through innovation to lifetime annuities," he said. Liquid Lifetime offers investors protection against inflation and longevity risks, while allowing investors to access ...