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A man is not a plan: Rice Warner

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2020
New insight from Rice Warner has re-iterated the message that a husband is not a retirement plan as women's lower super balances are highlighted on International Women's Day. The two key factors for a more comfortable retirement are marriage and home ...

New initiatives ready advisers for the future

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 DEC 2018
... clients are seeking advice about establishing granny flats with their children or grandchildren, moving into a retirement village or land lease community and accessing home care as well as residential aged care," Lane said. "Unfortunately for most advisers ...

Superannuation funds ramp up co-investment opportunities

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2018
Australian superannuation funds are actively partnering to seize investment opportunities in infrastructure and real estate compared to global counterparts, new research shows. Preqin's Australian Superannuation Funds in Alternatives report finds ...

Blue Sky offloads six funds

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 24 AUG 2018
Beleaguered Blue Sky Alternative Investments will sell its retirement living funds and its 50% stake in Aura Holdings, the operator of the retirement living business. Blue Sky today announced it signed a binding agreement with an offshore institutional ...

Boutique aims to tackle retiree housing affordability

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 FEB 2018
A boutique asset management firm is hoping to raise more than $9 million to acquire a Queensland retirement village, providing affordable housing for older Australians receiving government assistance. Hamilton Asset Management is looking to raise $9.06 ...

Industry funds must renew aged care investment focus

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 10 NOV 2017
One of the top national lobby groups for older Australians has called for more involvement from industry superannuation funds in the aged care sector. At a roundtable hosted by Industry Super Australia and over 50s consumer group Council on the Ageing ...

Retirement village receives super fund boost

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  THURSDAY, 7 SEP 2017
... Group, posed an attractive opportunity for First State Super," Dwyer said. "This is our first investment in the retirement village sector, and with Australia's ageing population likely to fuel demand for quality retirement housing solutions, we believe ...

Adviser group expands national footprint

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 20 JUL 2017
... when it comes to managing their wealth portfolios, in particular, Affinity's specialisation in aged care and retirement village financial advice which is unique to the Brisbane market. Affinity founder and senior partner Keith Jones said having left ...

New Blue Sky MD shoots for $5bn

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 6 OCT 2016
The new Blue Sky managing director believes there is "no reason why we won't grow to least $5 billion in fee-earning assets under management in the next three years." In what could be described as Robert Shand's "mission statement," he told an ASX update ...

Retirees increasingly favour income over lumps sums

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 4 AUG 2016
Retirees are increasingly choosing to access their superannuation through income streams rather than withdrawing lump sums, according to new analysis released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). Bjorn Jarvis, the program manager of the ABS' ...