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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...

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Superannuation

The SMSF Association has labelled the Government’s decision to release draft legislation regarding a Reversionary Transition to Retirement Stream as positive, saying it w...

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Financial planning

New research from Investment Trends has confirmed high demand for planners as people prepare for retirement....

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Superannuation

The Federal Government has been urged to give its 2016 Budget super tax changes time to work or risk making Australian retirees significantly worse off....

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Superannuation

The SMSF Association has urged the Government to better coordinate pension and superannuation policy in the forthcoming Budget to eliminate ‘perverse’ outcomes....

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Superannuation

Industry funds group, the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees has warned that raising the superannuation preservation age could lead to a blow-out in involunt...

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Superannuation

Vision Super has helped implement a program at Mount Alexander Council that seeks to help employees increase their superannuation by taking into account behavioural econo...

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People & Products

Long-serving ANZ Chief Risk Officer, Nigel Williams, will be retiring from the role early next year....

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Editorial

Robert Ross looks at the harsh realities which make delivering advice around aged care so challenging....

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Superannuation

Mercer has called on advisers to take a leading role in the challenge of longevity risk in retirement planning and funding....

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Superannuation

Financial planners need to communicate future uncertainty in a nuanced and careful manner, according to Milliman....

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Financial planning

Senior Australians are increasingly turning to planners for retirement incomes advice....

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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...

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Features

Paul Harding-Davis looks at the five retirement transition phases now that he is approaching the ‘sunset’ of his life....

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Superannuation

MLC has called on Australians to maximise their super balances and thus not slip into ‘retirement poverty’....

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