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StatePlus partners for holistic retirement transition

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 24 OCT 2017
StatePlus has partnered with a specialist organisation to help mature age workers transition seamlessly and holistically to retirement. The collaboration with Perth-based Life Time Wise, a practice that coaches baby boomers on financial, workforce and ...

Advisers can transform tragedy

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 16 OCT 2017
... Gold Coast, Corgenius chief executive Amy Florian said how advisers deal with the broad financial responsibilities of baby boomer clients will shape future generations and their interaction with the industry. "In a little more than 10 years from now ...

Traditional funds too apathetic to super start-ups

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 5 OCT 2017
While the short-term impact of new players in the superannuation market might be overstated, established super funds should prepare for the long-term threat of such competition. That is the view of SuperEd chief customer officer James Coyle, who believes ...

Intergenerational business succession failing: Report

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 29 SEP 2017
Australian private and family business owners are about twice as likely to sell than hand over the reins to the next generation when compared to the global average, a report by PwC Australia found. But of the 38% that want the next generation to take ...

Young Aussies driving sharemarket

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 1 SEP 2017
... holdings held by these demographics that nabtrade has ever seen. For comparison, the number of domestic shares held by Baby Boomer and Generation X investors rose 5% and 7% over the same period. Further, investment selections demonstrate an increased ...

Advice at any age will enhance retirement: Sunsuper

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 22 AUG 2017
More than half of Australian adults say they want to spend retirement travelling, yet two thirds don't have a plan for how they will live in retirement, according to Sunsuper. More than 70% believe they will rely on the Age Pension, while 40% don't ...

Retirement fintech makes senior appointment

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 AUG 2017
A financial advice start-up founded by former Challenger executive Paul Rogan has appointed a chief customer officer. Joining Retirement Essentials in the new role is Antoinette Tyrrell. She joins a growing team to lead the 'direct to consumer' marketing ...

Crisis emerging in Australian retirement system: HILDA

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  THURSDAY, 3 AUG 2017
... that the generations coming up are not going to have quite the same living standards in retirement that many of the baby boomer generation will have," survey leader and University of Melbourne economist Professor Roger Wilkins said. "You have to wonder ...

Retirement advice will take hit from education reform

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 3 AUG 2017
... avoiding financial abuse and longevity risk, Sinclair said. "This need is going to increase drastically as more and more Baby Boomer workers and business owners exit the workforce and find themselves facing a myriad of often complex and bewildering issues ...

DomaCom to ease issue of retirement funding

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUL 2017
... Australians could access in their retirement is in excess of $500 billion; DomaCom said the product is aimed at the growing baby boomer market and would allow advisers to include property in multi-generational wealth planning. The product is subject ...