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Equity lenders prepare to take on reverse mortgages

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAR 2007
... start-up equity mortgage specialist that plans to launch an equity mortgage by mid year, has said that it will target the baby boomer and retiree market. Greenway chief executive Peter Martin said yesterday that his group's product would be a "pure" ...

Baby boomers in good shape

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAR 2007
Baby boomers are in a relatively strong financial position for retirement and have more options available than ever before, according to a new report. The 16th AMP.NATSEM Income and Wealth Report, Baby boomers - doing it for themselves report, released ...

38 per cent of US retirees like reverse mortgages

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAR 2007
A survey by global consulting firm McKinsey & Co has found that US baby boomers will be forced to retire far sooner than they had hoped while having too little in retirement savings and holding unrealistic expectations about how they will finance it. ...

Salary sacrifice now three times more powerful

Salary sacrifice will become an even more powerful saving tool for Gen-Xers under Costello's latest Budget, allowing those 35 and under the option of saving at least three times more than in previous years. According to MLC, under existing rules, those ...

Planning starts at 30: MLC

Gen-Xers or thirty-somethings can save as much as $10,000 per year by getting financial advice much earlier rather than later in life, according to new research from MLC. MLC technical manager, Andrew Lawless, said that tapping into the overlooked segment ...

More growth through structured products and MAs

Structured products and managed or wrap accounts are the next cornerstones of the global investment funds sector, according to an on-the-spot poll of fund managers and other industry participants at the SIBOS conference held this week. The majority ...

You are how you spend, not your age

... you are or even how much money you earn." He even went as far to say, "Any kind of analysis using Gen X, Gen Y and Baby Boomer is the 'big swindle' because that is based on one factor, when you were born." By contrast, Honeywill and Byth's research looked ...

Home equity needs to be part of retirement strategy

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 26 SEP 2006
... now not only have considerable assets to draw from, but an effective way in which to do so." Martin said that the baby boomer demographic are typically hungry for more options in their financial strategies, and a shift in how people thought about the ...

Super funds to back new home equity mortgage group

KATE HAGE  |  FRIDAY, 22 SEP 2006
Superannuation funds are set to get behind a new home equity mortgage group, headed up by the former chief executive officer of Rothschild Asset Management, that will bring shared appreciation style mortgages to Australia. Peter Martin together with ...

Super tax concessions cost more than they save: Greens

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 16 JUN 2006
The Greens have issued a discussion paper that argues the cost of the tax incentives to encourage superannuation saving are greater than the tax savings we will later recoup through lower pension costs. The paper, The costs of ageing in Australia, a ...