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Time to look at Gen Xers

Many Gen Xers may be dirt poor compared to baby boomers but super funds who ignore this market segment do so at their own peril, according to Scott Pape, a finance expert and a Gen Xer. Pape, the 28 year old author of best selling book The Barefoot ...

Ageing population challenges require updated IGR

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAR 2007
... Treasurer Peter Costello. "The central long-term problem for the Australian economy is that our population is ageing. The baby boomers, that huge bulge in population is now working through our society and it means over the next 10 and 20 years, the proportion ...

Baby boomers in good shape

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAR 2007
Baby boomers are in a relatively strong financial position for retirement and have more options available than ever before, according to a new report. The 16th AMP.NATSEM Income and Wealth Report, Baby boomers - doing it for themselves report, released ...

38 per cent of US retirees like reverse mortgages

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAR 2007
A survey by global consulting firm McKinsey & Co has found that US baby boomers will be forced to retire far sooner than they had hoped while having too little in retirement savings and holding unrealistic expectations about how they will finance it. ...

Salary sacrifice now three times more powerful

... the focus in the lead up to the 1 July introduction of new super rules was on how the Budget has been a bonanza for baby boomers. "Everyone's talking about the million dollar opportunity," he remarked, referring to the four month's window where individuals ...

Planning starts at 30: MLC

... asset-poor, cash-poor and debt-rich to 'afford' financial advice. And many financial planners agree. Many cater for the baby boomers or the asset-rich and cash-rich 50-somethings. This segment is closer to retirement and therefore more likely to seek ...

More growth through structured products and MAs

... Americans will retire over the next 10 years. A similar situation is happening in Australia where the majority of the baby boomers will retire over the next two decades. "That has shifted the demand from growth funds to more income producing products ...

You are how you spend, not your age

... on financial services, according to a leading demographics expert who argued that labels such as Gen X, Gen Y and Baby Boomers were outmoded and ineffective. Ex-KPMG consumer behaviourist, Ross Honeywill, and co-author Verity Byth have published a new ...

Super funds to back new home equity mortgage group

KATE HAGE  |  FRIDAY, 22 SEP 2006
... flat. If it does increase we share with the person the growth," she said. Clarke added that the product targets both baby boomers who are underfunded as they move into their retirement and people looking to take the next step and upgrade to a larger ...

Super tax concessions cost more than they save: Greens

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 16 JUN 2006
... income during their working life. But the report highlights what the Greens believe is the flawed logic that so-called baby boomers require much more generously funded and luxurious retirement lifestyle than previous generations of retirees. According ...