RETIREMENT INCOME

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...

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Funds management

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

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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...

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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...

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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 ...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Superannuation

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

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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....

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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 ...

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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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Tools & guides

Minh Ly breaks down the new means testing rules for lifetime income streams, which have now been legislated by Parliament....

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