{"id":81112,"date":"2026-02-17T11:15:03","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T00:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/?p=81112"},"modified":"2026-02-23T09:54:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T22:54:23","slug":"acenda-life-enters-the-retirement-arena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/2026\/02\/17\/acenda-life-enters-the-retirement-arena\/","title":{"rendered":"Acenda Life Enters the Retirement Arena"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Acenda Life has marked its entrance into the retirement arena with Lifestream Guaranteed Income, a product backed by Nippon Life.<\/p>\n<p>Described by the firm as a modern retirement income solution, it aims to address the challenges posed by longer lifespans by \u201cproviding predictable, guaranteed income for life\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sean McCormack<\/strong>, Acenda Chief Commercial Officer, said there is a clear opportunity for the industry to create more predictable retirement income solutions, &#8220;that give Australians confidence and certainty in their financial future&#8221;.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;certainty becomes increasingly important over longer retirement periods&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThis is the first in a suite of modern retirement solutions we\u2019re building in response to the growing need for financial confidence,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Features of Lifestream Guaranteed Income include:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_62992\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-62992\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-62992\" src=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2022\/10\/Sean-McCormack-Integrity-Life-website-e1664859166429.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2022\/10\/Sean-McCormack-Integrity-Life-website-e1664859166429.png 421w, https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2022\/10\/Sean-McCormack-Integrity-Life-website-e1664859166429-250x300.png 250w, https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2022\/10\/Sean-McCormack-Integrity-Life-website-e1664859166429-350x420.png 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-62992\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sean McCormack<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<li>Predictable, guaranteed income for life, even when circumstances change<\/li>\n<li>Income remains stable regardless of market volatility or interest rates<\/li>\n<li>Payments can be protected from inflation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>McCormack said the product can provide predictable retirement income even when markets or circumstances change, saying indexed payments will not reduce if the CPI falls.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat certainty becomes increasingly important over longer retirement periods, while helping to counter market volatility and rising living costs,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Acenda Life has marked its entrance into the retirement arena with Lifestream Guaranteed Income, a product backed by Nippon Life. Described by the firm as a modern retirement income solution, it aims to address the challenges posed by longer lifespans by \u201cproviding predictable, guaranteed income for life\u201d. Sean McCormack, Acenda Chief Commercial Officer, said there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":81140,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-company-news","category-products"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}