Risking Retirement Income Uncertainty Retirement Retirement products should be designed with the aim of creating income sufficiency, rather than wealth maximisation, Michael Drew and Jason West argue in a new paper. Read More
Behind QSuper’s Retirement Design Asset Owners, Retirement [i3] Insights speaks with Brnic Van Wyk and Ben Hillier about the design behind QSuper’s newly launched retirement option. Read More
Designing Default Retirement Plans Innovation, Opinion, Retirement Academics, practitioners, consultants and fund managers have come together to develop a new framework for designing default retirement plans. In this article, they give an insight into how to implement such a framework and what the implications for members are. Read More
Rethinking Retirement Strategies Editorial, Retirement Retirees are often too conservative in their spending of superannuation money. How do we address this issue, when developing retirement products? Read More
LGIAsuper on Retirement Products Asset Owners, Retirement While long-term expected returns are likely to be low and short-term risks remain high, developing retirement products is a tricky exercise, especially with younger members in mind, Troy Rieck, CIO of LGIAsuper, says. Read More
Designing Menus of Retirement Products Opinion, Retirement The design of retirement products is an increasingly pressing challenge for many pension plans. Associate Professor Geoff Warren provides a potential way forward. Read More
Life-cycle, Annuities Less Relevant For Cbus Asset Owners, Retirement The unique characteristics of Cbus members make life-cycle and annuity strategies less attractive to them, the pension fund’s chief executive said at the inaugural [i3] Pensions Portfolio Forum. Read More
No Retirement Solution Fits All Retirement, Women in Finance Jacki Ellis has been given the task to spearhead First State Super’s retirement strategy from an investment perspective. We speak to Ellis about the complexity of the problem, the challenges of CIPRs and the need for customisation. Read More
In Defence of Life-cycle Strategies Asset Owners, Innovation, Retirement Australian Catholic Super CIO Michael Block addresses some of the criticism of life-cycle strategies and argues that we should take a closer look at the concept behind it. “To always place a member who is 20 years old with a 60-year old member in the same strategy is clearly ridiculous,” he says. Read More
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