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SG needed to save retirees: Shorten

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2011
Thousands of 100-year-old baby boomers will live out their last days in poverty unless superannuation changes are passed, Assistant Treasurer Bill Shorten has told delegates at the Conference of Major Super Funds. Minister Shorten, who flew to the Gold ...

Fund manager takes social media to next level

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAR 2011
... through social media, it's their comfort level with the internet." "The demographics of our users range from GenY to Baby Boomers and beyond, people are used to doing everything online these days from bank statements to ebay, the preference for online ...

Gen Yers turn to social media for financial advice

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 14 MAR 2011
... 22 to 34 ask friends, relatives and colleagues about finances and investing. This compares to just 43 per cent of Baby Boomers and 31 per cent of Boomers' parents that reported the same sources. Further differentiating Gen Y, around 33 per cent or one ...

More tailored advice for baby boomers: Salt

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAR 2011
Financial advisers who abandon the 'one-size-fits-all' approach when serving their baby boomer clients are better positioned to grow their business, said Bernard Salt, KPMG partner. Speaking at a Challenger briefing, Salt told over 300 planners and ...

SG war far from over

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 25 FEB 2011
... Anderson said, "It's a convenient argument when spending someone else's money and then taking a cut on the side. For baby boomers, if 9 per cent is not adequate then 12 per cent by 2020 won't help because most will be retired by then." But for Reynolds ...

Maritime gives members a work out

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 FEB 2011
... found that only one in five Generation Yers have received professional financial advice, compared to over half of baby boomers.

Longevity products in early stages

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 11 NOV 2010
... distribution. An aging population means that life insurance and the rate of payouts will probably spike as many of the baby boomers and older generations begin to retire. Yet the unprecedented stats behind people living a lot longer - even outliving ...

End the factions: Shorten

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 11 NOV 2010
... liabilities. Shorten said the problems will only become more pressing over the next 15 years as the first wave of baby boomers retire, and understanding this "historic challenge" and laying out a strategy to tackle the problem will be a key mandate for ...

Super segmentation comes of age

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 16 SEP 2010
... funds should be aware of four new key super situational segments, as opposed to the formally used Gen X, Gen Y, and Baby Boomers, arguing that it takes more than the year a person was born to determine what their super profile is. The new segments relate ...

Timing the market still a tough game: survey

JOHN MCDULING  |  TUESDAY, 24 AUG 2010
... confidence," continued Land. Intergenerational change was another theme from the survey with "generation X superseding the "baby boomers" as the most confident demographic in the trading community. Some 79 per cent of traders from "Generation X" identified ...