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Surveys show accumulation and retirement battle

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUN 2016
... survey participants and accounted for 55% of fund balances. Roy Morgan Research industry communications director Norman Morris said: "This segment is the primary group facing potential losses to self-managed superannuation funds (SMSFs), making it imperative ...

Australians putting off retirement planning

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2016
... to do with lack of long-term planning and other priorities," Roy Morgan Research industry communications director Norman Morris said. "The superannuation industry and the government have roles to play here to make people aware of the benefits of financial ...

Super switches estimated at $35 billion

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 7 JAN 2016
... being switched annually or 3.2% of superannuation products. Roy Morgan Research industry communications director Norman Morris said given the complex nature of superannuation, the lack of consumer engagement, poor understanding and low confidence in ...

Use of bank-aligned advisers in decline

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 OCT 2015
... of website internet banking are the high value customer," Roy Morgan Research director of industry communications Norman Morris said. He defined high value customers as the top 20% that controls 63% of the total market value of financial services. "Nearly ...

Super gender gap large, but closing

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 20 AUG 2015
... very slowly, and more definitive action is probably needed," Roy Morgan Research industry communications director, Norman Morris, said. The research also shows that women have much lower median balances across all age groups. "This makes it very difficult ...

Adviser input key to super fund switch: report

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2015
... financial literacy, and lack of availability of scaled advice," Roy Morgan Research industry communications director Norman Morris said. The report was based on the answers to 250,000 interviews conducted over the last five years, examining all aspects ...

SMSF growth driven by investor satisfaction

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2015
... achieving such rapid growth over the last decade or more," said Roy Morgan Research industry communications director Norman Morris. "With satisfaction levels higher than Industry and Retail funds since 2002, they continue to pose a major threat to them ...

Big four banks missing out on customer wealth management

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 24 FEB 2015
... indicating a relatively high level of customer loyalty across-the-board - Roy Morgan industry communications director Norman Morris believes the lag in wealth management business is due to leakage to the SMSF sector and industry funds. "With superannuation ...

Big four fail in cross-selling retail super funds

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 4 SEP 2014
... their superannuation through their employer rather than a planner," Roy Morgan industry communications director Norman Morris said. "The role of the employer has obviously given impetus to the strength of the industry funds whose gains appear to a large ...

Consumers have no loyalty to financial institutions

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 18 AUG 2014
... institutions and generally have only about one third of their products with any one bank," Roy Morgan Research's Norman Morris said. "While most institutions have made some small gains in product cross sell since 2010, overall they have not performed ...