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APRA deputy chair Helen Rowell warns superannuation fund trustees not to delay meeting their obligations in designing suitable retirement income products for members.

The way forward for Australia’s superannuation system is to combine two key pieces of legislation according to Challenger’s chair of retirement income, Jeremy Cooper.

Two MDUF Research Awards were presented this week to Graeme Mather from Schroder Investment Management and Geoff Warren from Australia National University.

Treasurer Josh Frydenberg’s long-awaited review of Australia’s retirement income system has been broadly welcomed by an industry weary of repeated government inquiries.

Given the review of retirement incomes, announced by Treasurer Frydenberg last week, it is timely to ask: What is the role of the age pension in Australia’s retirement system?

We are familiar with the extraordinary returns achieved in the past decade depicting the ‘single path’ nature of any particular return outcome, and the challenges of achieving return objectives prospectively.