Budget reinforces ‘retirement covenant’

10 May 2018
| By Mike |
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The Federal Government has used the Budget papers to reinforce its intention to impose a “retirement covenant” on superannuation funds.

The Budget papers confirmed the Government’s intention to amend the Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act 1993 (SIS Act) “to introduce a retirement covenant that will require superannuation trustees to formulate a retirement income strategy for superannuation fund members”.

The Budget papers said the Government would also amend the Corporations Act 2001 to introduce a requirement for providers of retirement income products to report simplified, standardised metrics in product disclosure to assist customer decision making.

The Budget announcement comes amid industry concerns that a one size fits all approach will not be appropriate with respect to the development of Comprehensive Income Products in Retirement (CIPRs).

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