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Retirement adequacy beats market slump

MICHELLE BALTAZAR AND RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2009
... last year. "These boost the incomes - and hence pre-retirement consumer spending - of workers more than the income of retirees."

Fin services back associations

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 6 JUL 2009
... going through some membership demographic changes. Pauline Vamos, chief executive at ASFA, said more individuals such as retirees and contractors are signing up. "Over the last two years we've seen the numbers stabilise. We've had more individuals and ...

Rev mortgage guide "out of date": RBS

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2009
... versus the response we get from customers is so positive," said Lynch. Lynch pointed the bank's research of more than 400 retirees which he said found people that take out a reverse mortgage are using it sensibly. The key reasons for taking out a reverse ...

OECD vindicates govt super reforms

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2009
... income policy when it revealed that Australia has the fourth highest poverty rate among the OECD countries for seniors and retirees. The finding lands a fatal blow to critics of the government's superannuation reforms who have argued that the tax concessions ...

Super changes hit retirees

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2009
Self-funded retirees will be hit hardest by the Federal Government's changes to super, according to Martin Murden, director of Partners Superannuation Services. According to Murden self-funded retirees are among a select few who don't hold out their ...

J.P. Morgan extends protection to retirees

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 1 JUN 2009
Pre-retirees take heart - a global asset manager is looking to implement a new strategy that allows Australian investors to have 80 per cent protection of the highest value of their investments as risk aversion continues to sweep the market. According ...

Super escapes budget knives

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2009
... superannuation however is the shifting emphasis towards the age pension which is still what the overwhelming majority of retirees rely on for their retirement income. Re-focusing to the age pension and boosting it by $32 per week or 11 per cent - three ...

Govt continues to target high income HHs

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2009
... Funds Professionals Association today released a statement asking the government to reconsider any windbacks, self-funded retirees only represent less than five per cent of retirees. Other segments of the superannuation industry being divided on the ...

China's smoking gun

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2009
... worried about losing their beloved dividend tax imputations, high income earners worried about losing their tax breaks or retirees wanting age pension increases better get ready to hunker down for long and viscous fight. Ben Ong is on leave.

Ipac buying spree continues

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2009
... markets for their next acquisitions as the dealer group focuses on buying financial planning businesses specialising in retirees. Ipac Securities, which has $2.1 billion in funds under advice, has up to eight acquisition deals across Australia already ...