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Blue Sky invests $20m in Oak Tree retirement villages

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUL 2013
... acquisitions and conversions. The company plans to add three to five new villages each year thereafter. Blue Sky said Australia's ageing population is increasing demand in the sector, with the Retirement Village Association forecasting the need for 140,000 ...

Self-education cap to harm senior workers

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUL 2013
... is a risk that senior professionals retire early as a consequence. According to research by National Seniors Productive Ageing Centre, early retirement has a detrimental effect on the Australian economy because it reduces the size of the labour force ...

Platforms surpass pre-GFC levels

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 1 JUL 2013
... of the platform market, BT Financial head of Platforms Kelly Power said. "We are also seeing more and more baby-boomers ageing and seeking advice for their retirement," she said. Platform funds under advice (FUA) were of $428 billion in March 2013 and ...

Aon Hewitt partners with EQT

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUN 2013
... partnership will give Aon Hewitt's financial adviser network access to EQT's estate planning and wills specialists. "Australia's ageing population and the transfer of wealth from baby boomers to their children and grandchildren means that estate planning ...

Gonski urges Australia to look long-term

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUN 2013
... with the purpose to meet the Commonwealth's superannuation liabilities in recognition of the funding problems posed by an ageing population. The fund's stated return target is 4.5%-5.5% above the Australian rate of inflation and it is prescribed that ...

Super charter should be enshrined in legislation: AIST

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUN 2013
... 'sustainability' be developed. The AIST also said non-financial issues should be addressed in the charter. "With the growing ageing population, AIST supports comments from the World Bank that there is a Fourth Pillar required for the ongoing success ...

Investors move to real assets after GFC

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 18 JUN 2013
... preference for infrastructure and direct property, the annual Principal Global Investors (PGI) CREATE Report found. The ageing population and a global move by governments and corporates to get out of the "pension business" have encouraged this trend ...

Only half Britons saving enough for retirement

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUN 2013

Retirement platforms to become the new battleground

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 27 MAY 2013
... administration (FUA) of $125 billion in 2012. That compared to FUA of $96 billion in the retirement segment. However, with an ageing population, this battleground is set to shift to the retirement segment, with the crossover expected to occur in a decade. ...

Variety of strategies needed for all-weather outperformance

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAY 2013
... invested in securities in 11 countries, is in Japanese drug stores. Lowenstein explains that this is both a play on the ageing population in Japan and a local trend for Japanese consumers to prefer local stores to supermarkets. The fund also has a sizeable ...