RETIREMENT INCOME

Superannuation

The Government would be well-advised focusing on Age Pension taper rates rather than superannuation within its upcoming retirement incomes review, according to Australian...

Superannuation

The retirement income review’s model will be able to dispel the contagious false narratives such as spiralling inflation and plummeting house prices that disproportionate...

Funds management

The compounding effect of poor downside capture could have a devastating effect on retirement portfolios, according to Fidelity....

Editorial

A significant question mark will hang over the Government’s Retirement Income Review if all it seeks to achieve is abandonment of the superannuation guarantee timetable a...

Policy & Regulation

Industry superannuation funds have reinforced the fact that lifting the Superannuation Guarantee to 12% has already been legislated amid suggestions that the Government’s...

Financial planning

Retirees should review their income-generating strategies in light of the Reserve Bank of Australia’s second rate cut as it will mean they receive less income from their ...

Financial planning

Retirees have seen a slight increase in living costs over the last quarter, according to the ASFA Retirement Standard, with a jump in the cost of food particularly contri...

Expert Analysis

In retirement, our investment objectives need to pivot. With most investment strategies designed for people in accumulation, Alastair MacLeod writes that retirees may nee...

Awards

A portfolio of listed companies that own ‘hard’ physical assets rewarded investors in the Legg Mason Martin Currie Real Income Class A Units Fund over the last year, with...

Superannuation

A regulatory framework created over 20 ago poses barriers to companies launching new retirement income products, despite Australians fearing running out of money in retir...

People & Products

ME Bank and specialist retirement funding provider Household Capital, which launched earlier this year, have announced a partnership to establish a $100 million wholesale...

Superannuation

Dixon Advisory has backed a warning from former Treasurer Peter Costello that Australians should contribute more towards their superannuation....

Tools & guides

Bryan Ashenden lays out who should be taking advantage of the Government’s downsizer strategy and why, and how advisers can help them do so....

Superannuation

MLC Super’s MySuper members have been moved to a new default option, as the fund implements major changes to make their MySuper offering better reflect members’ needs at ...

Superannuation

Despite the strong policy emphasis currently on superannuation account consolidation, research by Vanguard has found that very few members rollover their funds into eithe...

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