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Advice is the business to be in: Salt

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 OCT 2018
... their time upon retiring - putting financial advisers in the hot seat to manage not only the wealth of the Baby Boomer generation, but the transfer of that wealth. "The sort of business to be in on the Australian continent would be to manage the wealth ...

Retirement living advice is an opportunity: Challenger Financial Standard Technical Services Forum

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2018
... Morrison said a Royal Commission was necessary, given the increased demand the sector will experience as the baby boomer generation reaches an age where it will need the system's support. Also speaking at the event, MLC senior technical consultant ...

Government establishes aged care Royal Commission

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 17 SEP 2018
... Royal Commission into aged care was necessary, given the increased demand the sector will experience as the baby boomer generation reaches an age where it will need the system's support. The inquiry is set to examine the quality of care provided in residential ...

Baby boomers unprepared for wealth transfer: Australian Unity

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2018
... companies. Referencing an ING report from 2016, Australian Unity said $2.4 trillion will be passed down from the baby boomer generation, which makes it the largest ever intergenerational transfer of wealth of its kind. According to the mutual, the size ...

Crisis emerging in Australian retirement system: HILDA

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  THURSDAY, 3 AUG 2017
... generations coming up are not going to have quite the same living standards in retirement that many of the baby boomer generation will have," survey leader and University of Melbourne economist Professor Roger Wilkins said. "You have to wonder whether ...

Retirement income sector keeps pace with population changes

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2015
... highest or second-highest priority for retiree clients. "Planner expectations reflect Australia's ageing Baby Boomer generation," said Investment Trends senior analyst Recep Peker. "Over the next 25 years the number of Australians aged 65 and over is ...

Boost from Chinese stimulus to be short-lived

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUL 2014
... economic conditions and with no social safety net, China is predominantly a nation of savers. But as the baby boomer generation retires, the resultant shrinking labour force will put upward pressure on wages and therefore generate a higher level of consumption. ...

Beware engaged baby boomers, super funds told

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAY 2014
... Complaints Tribunal (SCT) chairperson Jocelyn Furlan. Furlan said this was a particular danger among the baby boomer generation, who have proved some of the most persistent and aggressive complainants at the SCT. Speaking to an audience of super fund ...

More young Americans worried about retirement

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 29 OCT 2012
... retirement worries peak among adults in their late 30s - many of whom are the older sons and daughters of the Baby Boomer generation," noted the PRC commentary on the survey findings. The PRC analysis noted that the reason for the heightened fears of ...

40% of super funds gone by 2020:CoreData

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 7 AUG 2012
... change confronting the industry between now and 2020 is the shift from accumulation to decumulation of the Baby Boomer generation," she said. "The battle for growth will be focused around post-retirement innovation and products and services that provide ...