Deconstructing retirement income

Part one on October 16, Deconstructing retirement income, featured Peter Chun, Aware Super (previously First State Super), David Carruthers, Frontier Advisors and Deborah Ralston, Monash University. The session was chaired by Jeremy Cooper from Challenger.

This session addressed:

· The role of superannuation;
· Defining retirement adequacy;
· Outcomes from the Retirement Income Review;
· Structural deficiencies with Account Based Pensions, and;
· What this means for trustees

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Questions and answers

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Funds open to pre-set retirement options – just don’t call them ‘defaults’

Discussion over retirement “defaults” has been heating up, but it is often unclear what the industry is actually asking for. Interviews by The Conexus Institute with super funds have uncovered support for suggesting retirement solutions to members and for contingency accounts, but not much support for opt-outs.

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