Retirement

Retirement

Retirement Income Covenant – where does a trustee start?

Matching members with the right solutions, garnering appropriate member information within the existing legal and regulatory frameworks and through-lifecycle engagement are among the biggest challenges facing trustees as the Retirement Income Covenant lands, experts have said.

David BellJuly 19, 2021

Retirement

Making a principles-based retirement income covenant work

The superannuation fund industry might be strongly supportive of a principles-based approach because it appears to enable more flexibility in product design but David Bell argues it might not be that straight forward.

David BellJuly 5, 2021

Retirement

Widening guidance: The case for more advice in super builds

Funds might tread carefully with their intra-fund strategies but work being done by policy makers and the funds themselves around retirement solutions will open new pathways for advice within superannuation.

Matthew SmithJune 30, 2021

Retirement

Business case for retirement needs to stack up

The design and creation of retirement solutions between now and when the government’s slated Retirement Income Covenant comes into effect will have a lot to do with whether the business case for these products stack up, superannuation fund executives have highlighted.

Matthew SmithJune 28, 2021

Retirement

YFYS makes way for super’s ‘great unfinished business’

The Retirement Income Covenant will be principles-based legislation designed to push funds to develop retirement strategies and provide guidance to ensure members make the most of their accumulated savings during retirement.

Matthew SmithJune 25, 2021

Retirement

Providing advice part of a fund’s responsibility: Dr Don Russell

It’s all well and good to say super is all about accumulation of funds for members during their working lives but according to AustralianSuper Chair Donald Russell funds also have a responsibility to provide advice.

Stewart HawkinsJune 11, 2021

Retirement

It’s time to do things differently in retirement policy

After six-years in retirement income helping super funds and policymakers with their positioning, strategy and product in all things decumulation, Amara Haqqani is shifting her focus elsewhere, but not before delivering some home truths to the segment.

Amara HaqqaniMarch 24, 2021

Retirement

Simplicity and confidence key to retirement puzzle: Challenger

Finding better retirement solutions will require more than just ‘age and balance’ metrics, but the industry will need to keep things simple to retain members’ faith and their confidence to spend, according to Challenger’s Aaron Minney.

Tahn SharpeNovember 2, 2020

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