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Boomers care more for environment than super

Baby Boomers, often referred to as the "Me Generation", are actually more concerned with environmental issues than their superannuation, according to a poll by the National Seniors Association (NSA). Covering 500 baby boomers (defined as having been ...

Principal buys $16.5b value fund

Principal Global Investors (PGI) has acquired Morley Financial Services, a value asset manager with around $16.5 billion (US$14 billion) in funds under management, for $88.8 million (US$75 million). PGI Australia's chief executive Grant Forster said ...

Boomers can be choosers

Investment product design expert Paul Resnik has urged financial planners to abandon traditional methods of providing financial advice if they want to establish a meaningful relationship with their clients. Speaking at the Rainmaker Marketing Symposium ...

Super is now the centrepiece: Vanguard

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAY 2007
Superannuation is now the centrepiece of every consumer's financial plan, driven by a range of recent product development initiatives coming in response to changes to Federal Government policy. "The latest tax ruling on insurance offered by super funds ...

AUI healthcare re-opens for business

... and diversification to the Trust," he said. The big picture continues to be promising though thanks to Australia's baby boomer generation approaching retirement age and new medicine enabling people to live longer. "Such soundly based, long-term global ...

Baby boomers not so super informed

... Wealth Solutions conducted a study in March where a random sample of 300 working Australians aged 50 and over (the baby boomer category) were asked about their opinions of the "simpler superannuation" rules. The key finding was that nearly three in four ...

Manage your retirement: Greenspan

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2007
... the Million Dollar Round Table (MDRT) Boomertirement Industry Summit, convened to explore solutions to the looming baby boomer retirement crisis. About 150 financial services industry leaders participated in interactive sessions with economists, authors ...

Adviser confidence way up: ING

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  THURSDAY, 5 APR 2007
Adviser confidence has rocketed in the past year, according to an ING survey, with double the number of advisers bullish about growth prospects in the year ahead compared the the last year. Around 75 per cent of the 800 advisers surveyed during the ...

Time to look at Gen Xers

Many Gen Xers may be dirt poor compared to baby boomers but super funds who ignore this market segment do so at their own peril, according to Scott Pape, a finance expert and a Gen Xer. Pape, the 28 year old author of best selling book The Barefoot ...

Ageing population challenges require updated IGR

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAR 2007
Population ageing and its implications is Australia's central long-term policy challenge requiring an update to the Intergenerational Report, said Treasurer Peter Costello. "The central long-term problem for the Australian economy is that our population ...