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BlackRock's Fink signals a tough road ahead for future retirees

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2024
... retire. "It's no wonder younger generations, Millennials and Gen Z, are so economically anxious. They believe my generation - the Baby Boomers - have focused on their own financial well-being to the detriment of who comes next. And in the case of ...

Australia's wealthiest women not getting the advice they need

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 25 MAR 2024
The number of high-net-worth (HNW) women seeking increased engagement with financial services is growing in Australia, according to new research. JBWere and CoreData research found Australian woman are more highly educated, entrepreneurial and participating ...

Policymakers face significant challenge in regulating AI

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAR 2024
... significantly impacting the labour market, productivity and sector concentration, as well as margins and free cash flow generation."

Advised investors spurring SMSF rebound

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 18 MAR 2024
... by advised clients as the number of self-directed investors opening SMSF accounts declined. Perhaps unsurprisingly, generation X - those likely to inherit the bulk of the intergenerational wealth transfer - were the biggest cohort among the advised investors ...

Taskforce suggests aged care funding be based on personal wealth

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAR 2024
The final report from the government's Aged Care Taskforce suggests the amount paid by Australians accessing care should be determined by their personal wealth, including superannuation, rejecting the idea of an aged care levy. On the back of the ...

Philip Lowe joins LIC board

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAR 2024
... first move since leaving the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA), joining the board of listed investment company Future Generation Australia (ASX: FGX). Lowe takes over from Mike Baird effective today, who will remain on the FGX board as an independent director. ...

'About bloody time': Industry responds to PPL super reform

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAR 2024
... result of taking time off work or working reduced hours to have and raise children." "It's about bloody time. "A new generation of women who receive the full benefit of the Superannuation Guarantee payment on their government paid parental leave ...

Long-term cost of super early release to be $85bn: SMC

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAR 2024
... now leave many people significantly poorer in retirement." Schubert said those withdrawals will also cost the next generation of taxpayers in a case of fiscal long-COVID. "These are the devastating consequences of schemes that break super's preservation ...

US family office launches Australian arm

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 27 FEB 2024
The Asena Family Office (Asena) has officially set up shop down under, merging with Melbourne-based boutique family office and asset management firm Giles Wade. To date, Asena said it has almost exclusively targeted an Australian audience with interests ...

Five megatrends shaping financial services: McCrindle

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 23 FEB 2024
... getting that language diversity." Another aspect of language that creates gaps is not based on country of birth but on generation of birth. "Younger generations communicate in new ways, with new devices, and with new slang," McCrindle said. The second ...