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Brakes on reverse mortgages

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 NOV 2007
Although the reverse mortgage market grew strongly in recent years, a new Datamonitor report has shown signs that the sector is slowing down. The Reverse Mortgages in Australia and New Zealand 2007 report found reverse mortgage advances increased by ...

BT Financial and Westpac launch all-in-one super

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 30 OCT 2007
... Group, said. The fund offers three different account choices including a savings, retirement and transition to retirement fund. According to Coombe, the fund contains no hidden, commission, establishment, contribution, withdrawal, termination or switching ...

FuturePlus new era after Newson exit

... Financial Services back in 2005. Prior to working at FuturePlus, he spent 18 years at the Stevedoring Employees Retirement Fund (SERF) where he became chief executive of Maritime Financial Services, the entity that owns SERF. A FuturePlus spokesperson ...

A third of over 55s will never retire: Citibank

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 17 SEP 2007
Nearly a third of Australian workers over 55 years old have no plans to retire, and 14 per cent intend to work well past 70, according to Citibank's latest Retirement Index. However, many of those working into retirement will not do it for the money ...

Church funds take youth off the streets

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 11 SEP 2007
... our fund members," said Sam Hallab, NCCSF chairman and deputy chief executive of the Catholic Superannuation and Retirement Fund (CSRF). He said the donation was given outside of the funds management and therefore the sole purpose test was not an issue. ...

Super fund members want a safe bet

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 6 SEP 2007
Super fund members do not want to expose their retirement funds to high risk investments with 42 per cent preferring a combination of all risk classes and only 15 per cent preferring a higher risk investment, according to a Quadrant survey. Tasmanian ...

CSRF doubles international equity holding

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 28 AUG 2007
The Catholic Superannuation and Retirement Fund (CSRF) has announced it will double its emerging market holdings in international equities after a portfolio re-weighting. The move will take its exposure from 3 to 6 per cent in international equities ...

Stable funds bad defaults: ICI

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUL 2007
The US Investment Companies Institute (ICI) has called for retirement funds to be invested to achieve growth, and dismissed calls from the US life insurance industry that capital stable funds be allowed as default investment choices in 401(k)s. "Stable ...

B&B, Primelife form largest retirement fund

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAY 2007
Primelife, Australia's largest retirement village provider, yesterday announced a joint venture with Babcock and Brown to create Australia's largest listed senior living specialist fund - Babcock & Brown Communities Group (BBC). Under the terms of the ...

Retirement banking comes of age

Retirees aged over 60 can now access their superannuation money easily and tax-free after ING Australia and ANZ launched a pension-linked cash account that works like an ordinary bank account. Called the ANZ Prime Cash Management Account (Prime CMA) ...