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Tax breaks no enough: seniors

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JAN 2010
It would take more than tax breaks to help baby boomers stay in the workforce beyond the average retirement age, argues an industry body. Michael O'Neill, chief executive at National Seniors, welcomed head of Treasury, Ken Henry's, proposal for tax ...

Towers Watson to fix post-retirement blues

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 19 JAN 2010
Towers Watson is set to design longevity strategies that best suit super funds and insurers - ahead of the three million Australian baby boomers expected to retire over the next 20 years. Towers Watson (the former Watson Wyatt Australia merging with ...

ING to guarantee money for life

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2009
ING Australia has launched MoneyForLife, a new retirement income product that promises to banish investor concerns of ever outliving their savings. For a minimum investment of $50,000, anyone from age 18 to 85 can access the product. Depending on the ...

Gen Y have unrealistic investment expectations: research

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 18 AUG 2009
Gen-Y investors expect double-digit returns despite the fact that, on average, they hold a third of their investments in cash and are highly risk-averse, research shows. The RaboPlus sponsored data compiled by Celsius Research surveyed investors with ...

Macq prepares for longevity risk

MEDIA RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 11 AUG 2009
Australian investors who are dying for longevity-type products widely available in the US but not locally will soon see a raft of these products hit the shelves, with Macquarie Funds Group setting up an entire team purpose-built for this one product ...

Mercer's self employed advice strategy falls short

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2009
Mercer Wealth Solutions' strategy to sign self-employed financial planning practices has netted only two practices in a year, well short of the expected 12 practices flagged last year. Mercer Wealth Solutions launched its self-employed financial planning ...

Planners prepare for retirement shock

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2009
... filled by the provision of "total retirement planning" services. He defines total retirement planning as providing baby boomer clients with financial advice and a well-articulated lifestyle coaching program. "The majority of retirement planning you get ...

Baby boomers eye income equity

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2009
... Hobart. "Regardless of the current circumstances we looked at the demographic of investors and we can see that the baby boomer surge is about to really happen," said Hobart. "As you approach retirement, income strategies have more of an appeal for that ...

Baby boomers hang on to investments

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2009
Baby Boomers may be sitting tight with their investment strategies, but many are arming themselves with education and taking a more prudent investment approach in a bid to ride out the GFC, new research shows. The latest Retire Ready survey from Commonwealth ...

Boomers to postpone retirement

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2009
Almost half of the baby boomer generation in the UK, France, Germany, the US and Australia expect to postpone their retirement because of the global financial crisis, according to a new study. The TNS Financial Crisis Study found 44 per cent of respondents ...