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Auction items for FICAP announced

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAR 2014
... are Redkite, Weave and YWCA NSW. Besides the Sydney Swans SCG prize Redkite, a cancer charity which supports children and young people with cancer, is also auctioning a three-hour F1 racing simulator corporate team-building activity for 10 people in ...

Retiree 4pct drawdown limits too high

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAR 2014
... promoters of life stage investment products especially those that aggressively dial down growth asset weightings for members as young as in their early fifties. This is because separate research from groups such as Mercer and Rainmaker have found that ...

Advice industry under-prepared for younger client base

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2014
... differences in the way baby boomers and Gen-X want their advice administered compared to younger clients but that a shortage of young advice professionals meant that these differences were being over-looked. "Boomers and mature investors are relationship ...

Brookfield shakes up board

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 3 MAR 2014
... Shane." Brookfield Prime Property Fund owns a number of office buildings across Australia, including Sydney's Ernst and Young Centre, Melbourne's Southern Cross East and West Towers, and Perth's 108 St Georges Terrace. Brookfield Prime Property Fund ...

PROFILE: Centric Wealth CEO Phil Kearns

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2014
... a job selling life insurance for AMP - a job he did "very unsuccessfully". "With age comes credibility, and I was pretty young to be out there in those days selling insurance," he says. After 18 months, he moved to a job at Tooheys, working in sales ...

Singapore lifts CPF rates

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2014
... increases are supported by already announced increases to Medisave contribution levies notwithstanding Singaporeans too young to be covered by the Pioneer Generation package will receive cash bonuses of $100 per year. The Singapore CPF as a provident ...

Financial Index launches low-cost advice platform

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 25 FEB 2014
... traditional financial advice service. "We're targeting the segment of the market that has been totally overlooked until now - young families struggling to build up their savings and accumulate wealth and would-be entrepreneurs trying to get their businesses ...

GenYs shy away from independent, professional advice

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 24 FEB 2014
Young Australians rely mostly on family, friends and banks for financial advice, while accountants and financial advisers are out of favour, RaboDirect research has found. The 2013 RaboDirect National Savings & Debt Barometer (NSDB) found that 36% of ...

Gen Ys engaged with life insurance

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 17 FEB 2014
Young Australians appear to be engaged with the importance of insurance, as new research reveals that with 48% of GenYs do not use outside influences when making a decision about their life insurance policy. A TAL survey found that 39% of Australians ...

AMP to launch integrated mobile app

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 31 JAN 2014
AMP is planning to launch a mobile app that will combine superannuation, banking and insurance information in a single place, in a move they believe will increase member engagement. AMP director of corporate super Libby Roy said the app would allow ...