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Online insurance lost in cyberspace

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 26 MAY 2008
Australians shopping for insurance online can save up to ten per cent more than buying them through conventional means - but the online revolution seems to be slow on the uptake, a new survey shows. According to a recent Allianz poll, only 32 per cent ...

Advice that spans three generations

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2008
... "The key is estate planning. If advisers can have a more active role in estate planning then that will lead to Gen X and Gen Y. "This module is really giving the advisers the tools to market to these people and also give an appropriate solution."

Tasplan uses ant mascot as Gen Y magnet

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 21 APR 2008
... role in what Tasplan claims is the first animated superannuation website aimed at boosting financial literacy among its Gen Y members. According to Neil Cassidy, general manager of Tasplan, Superant will play a tactical role in demolishing the financial ...

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 ...