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Optimum Pensions urges super trustees to insure mortality risk

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 28 FEB 2023
... and risks when designing retirement products, the whitepaper said. Nevertheless, Optimum Pensions managing director David Orford told Financial Standard that many super funds are considering uninsured products. Trustees of self-insured super funds must ...

Australians worry about retirement - and maybe they should

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 8 NOV 2022
... Further, in another report titled ' You'll live longer than you think ', Optimum Pensions managing director David Orford added new retirement product innovation in Australia means retirees can look to the best of both worlds - exposure to ...

Optimum Pensions, Generation Life launch lifetime annuity

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 AUG 2022
... The launch coincides with the Retirement Income Covenant's recent launch. Optimum Pensions managing director David Orford said vital steps toward an increased focus on post-retirement and the product innovation are required in this space. "The investment ...

Why advisers don't recommend annuities

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAR 2021
... at Melbourne University is funded by the Orford Foundation, set up by former Financial Synergy managing director David Orford. Orford has since set up a retirement income product provider Optimum Pensions, which this month signed a distribution deal ...

Optimum Pensions partners with Generation Life

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 19 JAN 2021
... former head of wrap and self-managed superannuation Patrick Clarke as the general manager, retirement solutions. David Orford is the former co-founder of superannuation administration company, Financial Synergy, which was sold to IRESS for about $90 ...

Global manager hires IFM associate director

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 NOV 2019
... equity fund has a successful long-term track record, with its local investor base including high-net-worths such as David Orford and his family office.. Orbis Investment Management currently manages in excess for $12 billion in client funds, according ...

Curtain call for industry body after 96 years

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 14 JAN 2019
... be a huge impost to the government but it would work out in the end." However, Optimum Pensions managing director David Orford disagrees, saying: "Many Australians in their post-retirement phase would have loved to receive an indexed pension to support ...

New mortality study adds to retirement conversation

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2018
... used UK mortality data on annuitants to calculate similar rates for the Australian population, in research funded by David Orford. A 60 year old Aussie man has a 6.6% probability of dying between their 60th and 61st birthday, according to the Australian ...

Retirement income rules boost annuities: Challenger

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAY 2018
... knowing their deferred lifetime annuity will provide a reliable income from then on." Optimum Pensions chief executive David Orford was similarly supportive of the Government's changes to the retirement income framework. He said: "Protecting your standard ...

Optimum Pensions appoints general manager

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 26 MAR 2018
... strategies and materials for Optimum products. Optimum Pensions was founded in 2017 by the founder of Financial Synergy, David Orford.. Its white label solution for superannuation funds, the Real Life Time Pension (RLP), can provide better returns than ...
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