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Meet the mini-institutions

For all the talk about the investment industry ignoring Gen Xers and Gen Yers in favour of baby boomers, one industry expert has said the segment, which he refers to as "the mini-institutional investors", are not well served. Julian Smith, a director ...

Plum podcasts

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 25 JUN 2007
Plum Financial Services is targeting Gen Y with a move to podcasting information the first step in a multi-channel communications strategy. Managing director, Mike Fitzsimons, said the move to podcast the Plum member newsletter was the first step in ...

QSuper champions fin literacy

... initiatives that will help improve the financial literacy of its 470,000-odd members, including the largely overlooked Gen X and Gen Y segments. A major supporter of the Financial Literacy Foundation, which features money guru Paul Clitheroe on the advisory ...

HOSTPLUS tailors fin lit to Gen X and Gen Y

Industry super fund HOSTPLUS is forging a new path to reach its Gen X and Gen Y super fund members, launching a financial literacy program specifically for 20 to 30-somethings. This month, the fund partnered with Scott Pape, author of the bestseller ...

Slow tech roll-outs putting off tech-savvy Gen Y

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 17 OCT 2006
... services providers is impeding staff performance and damaging employee attraction and retention, particularly for tech-savvy Gen Y. Roberts Weaver Group, who specialise in designing and delivering high performance work environments, found that many financial ...

You are how you spend, not your age

... consumers spend on financial services, according to a leading demographics expert who argued that labels such as Gen X, Gen Y and Baby Boomers were outmoded and ineffective. Ex-KPMG consumer behaviourist, Ross Honeywill, and co-author Verity Byth have ...

Max Super to go max Direct with investment funds

Incumbent financial services providers will face a new threat early next year when online super fund max Super launches its own branded investment funds, to be called max Direct. Co-founder and chief executive of max Super, Andrew Barlow, said the group ...

Govt recommends 3 per cent super top-up for under 40s

... that the move is a "positive step" but said he was disappointed that the report dismissed his proposal to allow Gen X and Gen Y to access part of their voluntary contribution for a home deposit. "If we start with the guaranteed 9 per cent level of super ...

DirectPortfolio to launch SMA Lite

Separately managed account (SMA) specialist DirectPortfolio Services plans to tap into the Gen X and Gen Y market with a slimmed down version of their product to be called 'SMA Lite'. An SMA is like a managed fund except an SMA structure allows clients ...