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Global aged care specialists eye Aussie market

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 16 AUG 2013
... "Studies across the developed world show that if people had the choice, they would rather stay at home," he said. "Baby boomers are more demanding on the services and the products that their parents are receiving, so they will be more demanding as well ...

Investors warned off making extra super contributions

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUL 2013
... government and decreases spending power during working life. "As the aggregate amount invested gets bigger, and as baby boomers get older, the temptation to tap into the giant pool simply becomes too great for the government to resist," said Montgomery ...

SelfWealth to distribute through BGL

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUL 2013
... a position to provide demographic performance data such as, accumulation phase versus pension phase, Gen Y versus baby boomers and provide an insight into how and why they invest," SelfWealth managing director Andrew Ward said. SelfWealth is currently ...

Aon Hewitt partners with EQT

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUN 2013
... access to EQT's estate planning and wills specialists. "Australia's ageing population and the transfer of wealth from baby boomers to their children and grandchildren means that estate planning is an area of key importance to Aon Hewitt advisers," Aon ...

AIA extends IP insurance to target baby boomers

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 18 JUN 2013
... insurance company AIA Australia has extended its Income Protection benefit to include workers up to the age of 70, as baby boomers work beyond the traditional retirement age. AIA will also include true level premiums to age 70 for life cover, TPD and ...

Lonsec and Milliman partner for post-retirement research

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUN 2013
... Pourbaix said the investment management and superannuation industry needs to evolve to cater for the growing number of baby boomers who are entering retirement. "At the moment the industry is focused primarily on wealth accumulation but as people enter ...

Insurance cover through super overlooked: survey

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 2 APR 2013
Baby boomers often don't realise that they are insured through their superannuation fund, a TAL survey found when only 31% of people aged 50 to 65 said they have insurance. According to TAL managing director Jim Minto, the figures should be higher because ...

Superannuation to wield $6tr muscle by 2030

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAR 2013
... two," said Sherry. Frontier Advisors managing director Fiona Trafford-Walker reminded the audience that the amount of baby boomers in retirement will generate a need for new products to manage longevity risk. "Sales of caravans will probably dive because ...

GFC derails wealth fee growth by $30bn

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 25 MAR 2013
... wave of product design and breed of fund managers will be dictated by an issue far bigger than the GFC. "The army of baby boomers moving towards retirement age and out of the workforce will further fuel this secular shift within the economy and its patterns," ...

Annuities boost Challenger growth

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 28 FEB 2013
... morning. This includes growth of $1.06 billion in retail sales and $921 million in institutional sales. The wave of Baby Boomers coming into retirement, retirees' preference for secure and guaranteed income investments, such as lifetime annuity products ...