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Advisers can step up to retirement planning boom

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 11 FEB 2022
... 250,000 people retiring each year and Australia having 3.9 million people aged over 65 this is "a huge market of people either retired or thinking about retirement". Advisers have a key role to play in helping Australians align their retirement with ...

Inflation hitting retiree budgets: ASFA

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 10 FEB 2022
... comfortable budgets were the largest since 2010. Automotive fuel costs rose 6.6% in the quarter, while vehicles rose 1.9%. Food - either dine-in or takeaway - costs increased by 1% too, while groceries like cheese, milk and yoghurt went up by 1.7%. In ...

Munro launches new fund

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 4 FEB 2022
... exposure to a concentrated portfolio of growth oriented global equities with the potential for capital gain. It can be used as either a core component or satellite within a portfolio for investors with a high risk/ return profile, and a medium-to-long ...

Online meetings to dominate in 2022

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 FEB 2022
... Financial Solutions and the Financial Services Institute, reveals that 51% of advisers still conduct formal client meetings either via phone or video conferencing. Should the technology improve, most advisers believe that the client acquisition process ...

HESTA impact lead goes it alone

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 1 FEB 2022
... from speaking publicly on matters of heritage and mining leases. "It is this integrity gap that the emerging consumers, either through their buying power or their investments, will not stand for and nor should they," she said. Delahunty was with HESTA ...

Insignia loses self-employed advisers

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 27 JAN 2022
... continued investment in technology and process improvements, for the benefit of advisers and their clients." For advisers who either retired or exited the industry altogether during 2021, Insignia facilitated over 50 intra-group acquisitions and mergers ...

Most paraplanners will not become financial advisers

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 20 JAN 2022
... majority (69%) of Australia's paraplanning sector is female, aged between 30 to 40 years old. About 60% are employed either full time or part time, while 39% are contractors. On average, they have over four years' experience in the industry. ...

Water, water everywhere but nothing to drink

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 JAN 2022
... supermarket shelves. Heck, even covid testing sites in Australia (for one) were closed as numerous staff became infected and were either on their sickbeds and/or required to isolate. While government and central bank largesse may have succeeded in moderating ...

Digital advice predicted to soar in 2022

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 14 JAN 2022
... Management, for example, took a stake in OpenInvest in 2021. Meanwhile, Finura expects Six Park, Stockspot and MapMyPlan to either be acquired or embrace significant investors in 2022. However, Vanguard's digital advice offering will not make the ...

VGI Partners confirms merger talks

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 10 JAN 2022
... obligations," the firm said in a statement. The Australian also reported Challenger as one of the other parties that could either merge or acquire VGI, as executives and major investors informed staff of the potential transaction during the holiday break. ...