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What Stronger Super?

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 26 FEB 2013
... superannuation funds all have an important role to play in educating working Australians about financial and retirement planning, which will be a fundamental step in trying to combat the looming retirement funding crisis," said Anderson. A nationally-representative ...

New Melbourne manager for Centric Wealth

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 FEB 2013
... planning professional since 1995 and has been with Centric Wealth since 2004, advising clients in all areas of retirement planning, wealth creation, portfolio construction and superannuation. She had held a number of senior roles at Centric Wealth. Prior ...

Energy Super makes two senior appointments

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2012
... relationships manager respectively. With $4 billion in funds under management, industry fund Energy Super provides retirement planning solutions to 48,000 members across Australia. Judd has more than seven years' experience in investment management and ...

Two boutiques merge to target SMEs

MARK STORY  |  MONDAY, 19 NOV 2012
... advising both private clients and small to medium size (SME) businesses and Ellingworth's specialist skills in retirement planning, the new practice plans to specialise in retirement, risk insurance, business succession, superannuation, and wealth accumulation. ...

Consumers clueless on retirement: Bateman

MARK STORY  |  THURSDAY, 15 NOV 2012
... and spending, Bateman advised delegates that Australians' low financial skills are reflected in insufficient retirement planning. What's concerning, added Bateman is the two thirds of the Australian population who don't do any additional retirement saving ...

Govt overhauls aged care

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2012
... perspective, this switch to a user pays model further highlights the need for aged care to be factored into retirement planning. "Retirement plans therefore need to both provide income for the type of active retirement sought, as well as the potential ...

Retirement funding needs aged care inclusion

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 12 APR 2012
... cuts to public spending loom, wealth providers are warning the cost of aged care needs to be factored into retirement planning. "The likelihood of care and its associated cost needs to be recognised at the beginning of retirement, not when care looms ...

Flawed assumptions pushing RRR too high

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAR 2012
... 2005 issue of the US Journal of Financial Planning that contained an article by Ty Bernicke entitled "Reality Retirement Planning: A New Paradigm for an Old Science" that argued pre-retirees are being cajoled into saving too much in their retirement ...

Target setting works for super funds

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 24 JAN 2012
... said Sara Higgins, PIMCO account manager. Higgins said that while DB and DC may have different structural retirement planning vehicles, the purpose of the structures to maximise savings and balance risk is the same. For a fund to rate either vehicle ...

Female SMSF trustees narrow gender gap

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  MONDAY, 23 JAN 2012
... an increased interest among women to be more involved in the management of their finances when it comes to retirement planning which means there needs to be a greater focus among advisers on educating women in planning for their retirement." According ...