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Financial planning

While the financial services industry is a little behind the curve in terms of developments in the post-retirement solution space, keeping things simple and user-friendly...

People & Products

Challenger and HUB24 have announced that the former’s annuities should be available to advisers and clients on the platform by the 2019 financial year....

Financial planning

Staggered annuitisations can help support retirees through to maximum probable life expectancy, and planners are showing increased interest in them as a retirement soluti...

Funds management

Challenger’s first quarter 2018 update showed an increase in AUM, driven by its life and funds management businesses....

Features

Mike Taylor writes that while other options may exist, annuitisation has become the preferred foundation for the development of Government approved retirement income prod...

Features

The Government has moved further to facilitate the development of post-retirement products but, as Hope William-Smith reports, the provision of good advice will remain th...

Awards

‘Old world’ lifetime annuities that offered little access to capital have been flipped on their head by Challenger, which saw its Challenger Guaranteed Annuity named the ...

People & Products

legalsuper has added Challenger's lifetime and fixed term annuities to its retirement products menu....

Financial planning

CFS platforms have exceeded $535 million thanks to advisers driving annuities to meet complex retirement needs while maintaining admin efficiencies....

People & Products

Suncorp has announced it would offer white-labelled Challenger annuities via its adviser channel....

Superannuation

Funds and fund members needed to understand both the benefits and compromises that deferred lifetime annuities (DLAs) offered, Frontier Advisors and Milliman said....

Tools & guides

Minh Ly looks at what advisers need to take into consideration once the asset test changes have been implemented....

News

Challenger’s total group assets and FUM was up three per cent for the September quarter from the previous quarter, which it attributed to interest in annuities....

Features

Getting retirees to cut back spending in the middle of retirement will be seen as more of a failure of advice than a useful strategy, Aaron Minney writes....

Features

Mike Taylor writes that platforms are rapidly evolving to meet both planner needs and Australia’s rapidly changing demographics — something which has given rise to the av...

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