ASFA’s latest data shows increasing costs in some areas have been offset by cheaper costs in other areas, leading to a modest increase in the cost of funding retirement. ...
Pengana CEO Russell Pillemer has reinforced the need to examine inherent risk in investment portfolios as Australia's baby boomers approach retirement....
BT Financial Group announced this week that it had received APRA approval for its MySuper licences and would launch actively-managed "lifestage" funds as its MySuper solu...
Although lifecycle investing may hold the solution to one set of problems, it also has the potential to lift the lid on another Pandora’s box, writes Renato Mota....
Sequencing risk can have a catastrophic impact on a SMSF, according to Michael E. Drew, professor of finance at Griffith University and partner at Drew, Walk & Co. ...
Australia should emulate France in introducing a "floating retirement age", according to the Combined Superannuants and Pensioners Association. ...
The traditional superannuation balanced fund, with its 70/30 allocation to growth and defensive assets, is limiting investors and failing to deliver appropriate investmen...
Investment in retirement is different and needs to be treated as such, according to former Cooper Review chairman Jeremy Cooper. ...
The Federal Opposition has called on the Government to give undertakings not use superannuation as a milch cow to feed the Budget deficit....
The financial services industry’s approach to post-retirement has long been regarded as stale. Critics’ voices have become ever louder and, as Janine Mace reports, the in...
Asset allocation is typically sold as a simple stocks-versus-bonds split, but there is much more to it than that if you want an effective result. Bhanu Singh points to a ...
Research has found that higher income earners may have a harder time maintaining their lifestyle in retirement....
AMP’s Libby Roy believes MySuper could, in fact, be a catalyst to increase member engagement with their super....
ASFA's Pauline Vamos argues the increasing complexity involved in dealing with post-retirement issues justifies a specialist qualification for planners. ...
Challenger has predicted that it will become the highest-selling lifetime annuity provider in the industry as well as selling more lifetime annuities in 2013 than the ent...
So shareholders lose a dividend plus have seen the erosion of value. Qantas decides to clawback remuneration from Alan ...
This is why I left my last position. There was no interest in giving the client quality time, it was all about bumping ...
So the Hayne Royal Commission has left us with this. What a sad day for the financial planning industry. Clearly most ...