ANZ Wealth has warned that uncertainty over the form the Government’s intended new retirement income framework will take is making their clients nervous and the industry ...
Actuarial research house, Rice Warner, has suggested that an element of compulsion may be needed to ensure an adequate take-up of comprehensive income products in retirem...
The growing size of Australia’s older population means that we need “a major shift in the way we think about the aged care workforce” and funding, according to Leading Ag...
The Committee for Sustainable Retirement Incomes has developed a sustainable retirement income scorecard to try to improve consumer outcomes from the superannuation indus...
The outcomes of the Australian retirement system for the average income worker should be improved and Denmark’s approach could offer guidance, according to Mercer’s David...
There is considerable opportunity to provide robo-advice to pensioners seeking affordable, accessible and personalised advice, according to GlobalData....
A new research paper has questioned whether the increasing importance of superannuation means that the role of the Age Pension needs to be re-evaluated....
Super funds implementing lifetime retirement income policies need to consider retirees’ needs, including access to capital and an inflation-linked lifetime income, accord...
A Super Review roundtable has questioned whether superannuation funds will need to restructure to remove the sole purpose test impacts on the delivery of post-retirement ...
The Department for Work and Pensions in the UK has taken a hard line with employers in its much-anticipated white paper outlining proposals to protect defined benefit pen...
Qantas Super’s newly launched Retirement Confidence Index has reinforced sentiment that Australians largely do not feel confident about their ability to retire comfortabl...
The Grattan Institute has pointed to the manner in which paying down mortgages is depleting post-retirement super balances....
From my perspective, 40- 50% of people are likely going to be deeply unhappy about how long they actually live. ...
Super director remuneration ...
No doubt true, but most of it is still because over 45’s have been upgrading their houses with 30 year mortgages. Money ...