Genevieve Cua

Rising premiums and costs are putting employers in a quandary

The planner uses the firm’s ‘sufficiency, safety and flexibility’ framework

However, Jenny Johnson has some reservations over Magnificent Seven stocks due to ‘trickier’ risk proposition

In major talent hubs such as the Republic, employers will have no respite from rising benefit costs

However, ‘materially higher’ yields from current levels can lead to weakness in credit spreads and equities

Research shows that TPA adopters have a performance edge of 1.3% per annum over portfolios using strategic asset allocation

Due to the surge in AI as a theme in public equities, fixed income and real assets, exposure risk is rising

The macro forces exerting upward pressure on bond yields are unlikely to let up

Human capital can generate long-tail dividends far beyond the technical retirement age

The Australia-based firm plans to utilise up to US$300 million in funds out of the new section