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Advice industry must change as population ages: Expert

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAR 2023
... literacy is poor; they don't naturally think about financial calculations. And also what matters to them is time budgeting. What do you want to do with that time?" he asked. He said if life is getting longer, advisers are better off asking clients ...

Economic landscape spurs advice model rethink

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 28 FEB 2023
... their value proposition on something other than investment performance. Instead, they are adding value in areas such as budgeting and cashflow management, debt, superannuation, tax, Centrelink, retirement planning, estate planning and aged care, Desktop ...

NGS Super taps Robeco for major equities mandate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 FEB 2023
... a small portion of the overall tracking error, Hartmann said. Squires reinforced Hartmann's observations on risk budgeting and return. "We can manage risk with a more enhanced approach as well, effectively freeing the risk budget for where we want ...

Australians lack confidence in retirement: SSGA

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JAN 2023
... preferring products that provide access to savings during early retirement followed by stable income in later years. Budgeting for early retirement years is a major concern for respondents, with only 21% more concerned about budgeting for later years. ...

Plans afoot to narrow gender pay gap

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 OCT 2022
... minimum wages. According to Budget documents, this year marks the first that the government has used gender responsive budgeting, trialling the use of gender impact assessments on key measures to ensure women's outcomes were considered. These issues ...

Advisers can help female clients 'break the bias'

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAR 2022
... confidence when it comes to investing. "A study by Merrill Lynch and Age Wave found that where 84% of women are confident budgeting, only 52% of women feel confident in managing investments compared to 68% of men," she said. Fidelity International has ...

Funds need retirement income strategy by July

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAR 2022
... strategy can include providing a range of assistance to members, such as developing specific drawdown patterns, providing budgeting tools or expenditure calculators, providing factual information about key retirement topics, and providing forecasts to ...

Auditor referral threshold test troubling: SMSFA

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 13 SEP 2021
... at the start of a new financial year. Although fees, including referral fees, for the previous year may assist in a budgeting or planning process, there are no guarantees that the same level of work will be received the following year." The association ...

NZ Super Fund hires asset allocation head

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUN 2021
... investment strategist to head of asset allocation. Charles Hyde joined the Guardians in 2015 and has since chaired a risk budgeting team and been involved in the 2020 review of the reference portfolio, reviews of investment hurdles and proxies and climate ...

HESTA awards mandate

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUN 2021
... funds on this important digital transformation journey." TechnologyOne will also migrate HESTA's finance and enterprise budgeting as part of the project, which is expected to be completed in late 2021.