ASFA View

A retiring personality

There has been considerable policy debate about the regulation and design of retirement income products. The government has been developing a framework for Comprehensive Income Products for Retirement (CIPRs) following

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The path from 9% to 12%

The path for the increase of the Superannuation Guarantee to 12 per cent has had a few potholes along the way. As originally legislated it was due to steadily increase

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Battle Royal

At the time of writing this column the first week of the substantive hearings of the Royal Commission was near complete. The progress of the hearings has been a bit

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Even more testing times

Superannuation funds—along with retirees, impending retirees, and financial advisers—have had to cope with the substantial changes to the means test for the Age Pension that came into effect on 1

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Ageing in place and in other places

In new research presented in an informative and entertaining session at the 2017 ASFA National Conference, Bernard Salt used Census data to describe how Australian retirees with property in capital

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