RETIREMENT

Editorial

With Baby Boomers starting to enter retirement, there is a growing realisation that retirement incomes products are insufficient and in need of an overhaul....

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Editorial

According to DEXX&R research, allocated pensions are still the most popular retirement incomes option....

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Financial planning

Financial advisers are increasingly moving away from "one-dimensional" risk profiling to an objective-based plan, according to Challenger....

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Editorial

The Federal Treasurer Wayne Swan and the Treasury must shelve any plans they may have to alter the superannuation tax regime to achieve a Budget surplus, warns Mike Taylo...

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Financial planning

Suncorp Life has moved to provide customers with a new tool via the launch this week of an online simulator that delivers a retirement snapshot in under 60 seconds....

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Financial planning

MLC has launched a new insurance product aimed at helping Australians protect their retirement savings from ongoing volatility in equity markets....

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Superannuation

Self-Managed Super Fund Professionals' Association warns Government against further superannuation tinkering to bolster its promised Budget surplus....

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Financial planning

Sonnie Bailey explores some of the sources of regulation which extend beyond what financial planners may think of as ‘regulation’, in the narrow sense of the term....

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Superannuation

ASFA has called for the implementation of the SRM despite concerns about the measure from some industry players....

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Editorial

WHK Group has posted a net profit after tax of $10.2 million for the 2011-12 financial year - down from $17.8 in the previous financial year....

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Superannuation

Morningstar has launched fund analyst research on Australian industry superannuation funds, which it said would provide an independent insight into this sector....

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Superannuation

Post-retirement requires that Australian superannuation funds look to objective-based strategies that can protect members from future market volatility, according to Stan...

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Financial planning

Fledgling financial planning software developers may be able to utilise an advertising funding model to stake a claim in the market....

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Superannuation

New SuperRatings data highlighting the outperformance of industry superannuation funds over the long-term shows the representative trustee governance system is a superior...

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Superannuation

A steadily increasing number of retirees say they are financially unprepared for retirement, according to Investment Trends research....

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