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SMSFs lead charge

... Association of Australia Ltd (SPAA). She added that it is also all about control, where the statistics suggest future retirees want to manage their own super although many might have multiple funds. "It might also be that they want an SMSF to supplement ...

Retirees short on yield

Australian retirees are struggling to find quality long term, high yield products to fund their retirement as domestic and overseas share markets continue their strong performance, according to a Zurich Financial Services Australia (Zurich) report. ...

One in 10 investors are switchers

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 27 NOV 2007
One in ten US retirees and pre-retirees are looking to change financial institutions at any one time based on costs or level of service they receive, according to research from Aite Group. US-based research firm Aite Group surveyed 505 people in the ...

The new government: what it means

... investments provider in the country, has outlined what the landslide victory of the Labor party means for investors and retirees. Working class families are the clear winners with child care rebates to increase from the current 30 per cent to as much ...

Gen X and baby boomers clash on FP

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 NOV 2007
The recent sub prime-related market re-rating has exposed a divide between how retirees and younger investors perceive the performance of their financial planner. According to the Lifeplan University of Adelaide's International Centre for Financial ...

What members want

... longer customer service hours. Digging further on who these members were, it turned out more than 90 per cent of them were retirees. "The retirees were completely out of kilter with the response of the rest of our members when we offered more services. ...

Seniors vote against Westpoint

... when the property group collapsed. NSA represents 280,000 members aged over 50 who are either still working, self funded retirees or pensioners. Michelle Baltazar

Village People

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2007
... the USA to relocate considerable distances from their family home in their retirement years." By contrast Australian retirees prefer to remain close to the old neighbourhood and their families, friends and the local doctor. Major pressure points in Australia ...

Tassies downsize to upsize retirement

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2007
... super chief executive Wayne Davy. Quadrant commissioned a study that reinforces other national surveys, which found many retirees are looking to their homes as the core source of income for retirement. But Davy said that potentially rising prices in ...

Mercer opens new TAP

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  THURSDAY, 18 OCT 2007
... for member empowerment and support," he said. Anderson said personal financial advice was especially important for pre-retirees, as they needed to deal with social security, insurance, estate planning and superannuation, and despite the Federal Government's ...