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Changing the face of super

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2009
... Pape, author and founder of The Barefoot Investor and a speaker at today's Rainmaker Marketing Symposium, says Generation Y-ers are far from disinterested in their finances. In fact, it is the super funds that are failing to target them properly. Changing ...

IOOF targets Gen Y super

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 SEP 2008
IOOF has launched Individuum - a new online financial services business and super provider for Australian Gen Y-ers. But will the budding company succeed in cashing in on the online super trend? Individuum is IOOF's new online financial services business ...

Tuning in to Generation Next: ASFA

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 12 AUG 2008
... member's attention while ipac's executive chair Arun Abey will talk about behavioural finance and how it applies to Gen X and Y-ers. ASFA chief Pauline Vamos said that while Generation Next has largely been overlooked because they have relatively small ...

Gen Y risks high fees

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUL 2008
Gen Y-ers are more likely to pay higher super fund fees during their lifetime because of their job-hopping lifestyle, according to legalsuper. legalsuper chief executive, Andrew Proebstl, said many employees particularly those in the Gen Y bracket could ...

Erste Bank signs SimCorp for fund platform

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 AUG 2007
SimCorp Dimension has scored a major coup after it signed a funds management and administration IT contract with Erste Bank, one of the largest financial services group in Central and Eastern Europe. The Austrian banking giant will use SimCorp as its ...

Gen X-ers choose brokers over banks

... per cent of those surveyed used a broker to select their current mortgage, the number increases dramatically among the Gen X-ers, with half of respondents aged under 35 using a broker instead of going through banks. "With younger people choosing non-traditional ...

Count to include equity release on approved list

... include equity release products on their approved list, aimed at the growing number of retirees nicknamed the MERLOTs and SKI-ers. Retirees of the 'More Equity Release - Lots more' (MERLOTs) and 'Spending the Kids' Inheritance' (SKI-ers) schools of thought ...

ASFA calls for super projections to assist 'under 40s' save

... information to be akin to a guarantee as opposed to a forecast. ASFA chief executive Philippa Smith says, "Few Generation X-ers, and even fewer Generation Y have a clue about how much income they're likely to have in retirement from their current super ...