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Industry needs better retirement advice blueprint: Expert

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 30 NOV 2023
... better equipped in navigating a landscape that is becoming increasingly more complex, an industry expert says. Optimum Pensions head of engagement Stephen Huppert told Financial Standard that it's time for the advice industry to knuckle down on how ...

Older Aussies are retirement illiterate: Survey

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 19 SEP 2023
... exact amount retirees should drawdown is also complex. Citing a 2022 study by actuary and head of innovation at Optimum Pensions Jim Hennington, some 840,000 Age Pensioners (about a quarter of those over 65) are currently impacted by complex means tests. ...

Optimum Pensions urges super trustees to insure mortality risk

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 28 FEB 2023
Optimum Pensions has urged super trustees to insure life expectancy and mitigate mortality risk to meet Retirement Income Covenant objectives. Optimum Pensions' ' The difference between insured and uninsured retirement products ' whitepaper said trustees ...

Australians worry about retirement - and maybe they should

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 8 NOV 2022
... fulfilled and comfortable life." 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 ...

Optimum Pensions, Generation Life launch lifetime annuity

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 AUG 2022
Optimum Pensions and Generation Life partnered to launch an investment-linked lifetime annuity. The LifeIncome products offers a lifetime annuity with 23 different investment options and has reversionary benefit and death benefits. A statement called ...

Generation Life awards tech mandate

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAY 2021
... accounting and reporting. The package includes a tax-reporting functionality. Generation Life partnered with Optimum Pensions in January for a five-year exclusive agreement to manufacture, administer and distribute its retirement income product. Most ...

Why advisers don't recommend annuities

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAR 2021
... 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 with ASX-listed Generation Life. The final report from the Retirement Income ...

Optimum Pensions partners with Generation Life

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 19 JAN 2021
David Orford's Optimum Pensions has signed a five-year exclusive agreement with Generation Life to bring its retirement income product to the market. Generation Life will manufacture, administer, market and distribute an investment-linked pension ...

Life insurers recognised for innovation

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 3 NOV 2020
... option) and Client and Adviser Technical Support Award. The Longevity Product (Investment Linked) Award went to Optimum Pensions (Real Lifetime Pension). It also scored the Tools and Calculators Award. Generation Life is the winner of the Overall Investment ...

Curtain call for industry body after 96 years

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 14 JAN 2019
... pressure on wages and it would 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 ...
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