The fintech firm has launched a new online product comparison tool to help advisers compare the fees and features of over 1,000 superannuation, pension and investment fun...

Defined contribution assets in pension markets have overtaken defined benefit assets for the first time in what could be construed as a vote of confidence in Australia’s ...

New pension rules, combined with the ATO’s revised treatment of some existing practices surrounding exempt current pension income, have increased the workload of administ...

Nearly half of the respondents in a survey of over 1,400 investors by Plato Investment Management expect Labor’s proposed franking dividend reform to make them more relia...

The emergence of the gig economy and other policy factors have resulted in Australia dropping to fourth place on the Melbourne Mercer Global Pension Index as northern Eur...

Rahul Singh explains how to contend with the planning issues stemming from the recent introduction of downsizer contribution rules while still utilising the opportunity t...

Research from Milliman Inc. has found that a scheme encouraging older Australian couples to downsize their homes will likely help those couples with lower super balances....

Self-managed superannuation funds in the pension phase are much more likely than their accumulation counterparts to focus on conservative and high-yield investments, acco...

The Financial Planning Association has called for the Australian adoption of a regime which would allow up to $1,000 of super savings to be withdrawn to cover the provisi...

Changes to the aged pension’s asset test rules may hurt middle-income Australians, according the to SMSF Association....

The reduction in the household saving rate has led to a drop in the Australian pension system’s sustainability value, according to the Melbourne Mercer Pension Index 2017...

Australians have been seeking help to repair their financial plans for retirement less than two months since the Age Pension asset test changes....

Pension-phase investors need specialist, high-yield strategies to supplement traditional sources of income, according to Plato....

Pensioners considering selling the family home in light of the changes to the Age Pension assets test should take into account emotional and practical consequences before...