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Absolute Capital strengthens sales team as it looks to Asian markets

... with strong expertise and success in structured credit. I believe this is a product area whose time has come, as baby boomers retire needing income." The new product business unit will provide strategic support to the sales and investments teams focusing ...

Funds management industry set for generational change

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2005
... 50 per cent. Yet there remains another edge to this demographic pressure. While coping with the dissaving of the baby boomers wanting to enjoy their golden years, convincing the money savvy younger generation to invest in managed funds could become more ...

Investors yield to fixed interest as Principal appoints lead manager

... highlights the need for increased investor diversification, market growth of the high yield market particularly from the baby boomers demanding higher yield and low risk, historically uncorrelated performance and improved credit risk management tools ...

BT yields to baby boomers

BT Financial Group has launched a new-style yield fund targeted towards the retirement needs of the baby boomer generation. The BT Multi-Strategy Yield Fund combines both absolute return and yield strategies and offers three-way diversification across ...

Planners still optimistic on equities

... normal market movements. Tax-effective funds, particularly those offering income streams, are likely gaining ground as baby boomers enter retirement," Miller says. DeAM surveyed over 1400 advisers for the poll between January and March of this year as ...

Falling housing market puts baby boomers Super at risk-warning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 6 JUL 2004
... superannuation averaging only $70,000, the family home or investment property was the asset used to plug the gap. But he said baby boomers risked poverty in their golden years if they bought a faulty home or devalued their property with poor renovations ...

Wizard boss tips investment property supporting mortgage sector

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAR 2004
Baby boomers are increasingly hitching their retirement to investment property rather than superannuation which will support the home loan industry in years to come, Wizard Home Loans executive chairman Mark Bouris said yesterday. Mr Bouris, speaking ...

Baby boomers to be urged to rethink early retirement

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2004
Baby boomers will be urged to rethink their retirement plans in a major speech by Treasurer Peter Costello today, which will form a cornerstone of the coalition's re-election strategy. Costello is expected to push later retirement and measures to encourage ...

Commonwealth Bank chief calls for raised labour productivity

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2003
... nation's ageing population becomes a drag on prosperity. CBA chief executive David Murray said the clock was ticking as baby boomers headed towards retirement en masse as soon as 2010. Last week, Reserve Bank of Australia governor Ian Macfarlane even ...

ASFA strongly argues in favour of a cut in super contributions tax

... "Forecasts based on what current retirees spend and need systematically underestimate what future patterns will be. Baby boomers and the generations following them will have higher maintenance lifestyles, and these have not been factored into projections." ...