TechKnow – DDO and the Retirement Income Covenant’s impact on retirement advice

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Information for advice professionals only.

Australia’s demographics are shifting, and our retirement trends are changing. In today’s podcast we are joined by Jeremy Cooper, Chairman of Retirement Income at Challenger and Richard Dinham, Head of Client Solutions at Fidelity to discuss what impact the DDO and the recently released exposure draft legislation on the retirement income covenant will have on the advice financial advisers provide to their clients.

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