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QSuper head moves to AMP

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 9 AUG 2021
... flexibility for their retirement. He previously spent six years at Sunsuper as senior manager of super and retirement products and was head of product - super concepts at ANZ. "I joined AMP because I truly believe we are the best placed organisation ...

Retirement Income Covenant paper released

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 20 JUL 2021
... effect in July 2022. The new paper, released July 19, proposes a framework for superannuation funds to develop retirement products for their members. "The covenant will place a key obligation on trustees to formulate, review regularly and give effect ...

Retirement portfolios need a rethink: Research

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 16 JUL 2021
... officer Reece Birtles said. "The old view of the economic behaviour of retirees that most existing multi-asset retirement products assume is that when people get to 65, they automatically become more risk averse and should move away from risky, growth-style ...

Super funds slam budget's super gap measures

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAY 2021
... lowering the downsizer contribution age limit to 60 from 65, providing a two-year amnesty for exiting legacy retirement products, relaxing residency requirements for SMSFs and small APRA-regulated super funds. However, it was quiet on in creasing Commonwealth ...

Retirees freed from legacy products

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAY 2021
Individuals locked into legacy retirement products will now have the chance to transfer into newer, more flexible products without penalty under a new measure. The government is introducing a two-year amnesty for individuals in market-linked, life-expectancy ...

Why advisers don't recommend annuities

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAR 2021
... retirement product market," the report said. "However, financial advisers may have an incentive to recommend retirement products that require an adviser's frequent involvement, such as an account-based pension, rather than a 'set and forget' product ...

Which longevity product yields the highest income?

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 20 NOV 2020
... protection. To ensure its appropriateness, analysis compared this longevity product type to other possible retirement products," the review said. It then compared it to three other products as follows: A 100% allocation to group self-annuity starting ...

BT cuts Wealth Connect

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2020
... sufficient scale or where risk outweighed return. These included its wealth platforms, superannuation and retirement products, investments and general and life insurance.

Super fund gets ahead of CIPR obscurity

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 15 SEP 2020
... the lack of guidance from the federal government - which continues to back down on its Comprehensive Income Retirement Products (CIPRs) proposal. RetireSmart was constructed to be flexible with the view that it will eventually be CIPR-compliant, he said ...

Industry funds triumph July performance

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2020
... pension at 1.9% and Vision Super's balanced growth at 1.8%. UniSuper took out the top two spots for growth retirement products with its sustainable high growth pension returning 5.6% over one year, 11.5% over three years, 9% over five years, 11.7% over ...