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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." ...

ASFA comments on IFSA policy statement

... take action now to remedy the situation before Australia finds itself with a large chunk of the population - the baby boomers - reaching retirement with inadequate resources." In a submission to the Senate Select Committee on Superannuation and Standards ...

Sharp reduction in inheritance wealth despite rise in per capita income: AMP

Four in five baby boomers mightn't receive a significant inheritance, despite accumulated wealth per Australian having tripled since the 1960s, National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling (NATSEM) research - released by AMP - has revealed. Although ...

Macquarie predicts stable outlook for property market

... observing the moves made by the influential baby boomer generation, Macquarie Property said. "The next major trend for baby boomers will be the move toward communal living," Cornish said. "This has already begun with the move to second homes or holiday ...