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Financial services experiencing 'workforce transformation'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 12 AUG 2024
... rates, bringing with it the challenges and opportunities of intergenerational leadership," Profusion said. The whitepaper said baby boomers and generation X are starting to transition out of the workforce and into retirement, seeing millennials taking ...

Industry demands action to stop abusers claiming victims' super

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 8 AUG 2024
... victim survivors," the government has "baulked at the idea of anything to do with super." "We're only now starting to see baby steps from the government in favour of survivors, but it's still not good enough. They're still not acting quickly enough to ...

Australia unlikely to tame inflation

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUL 2024
... Reserve. There are also some structural issues keeping inflation high such as de-globalisation, protectionism, and declining Baby Boomer workforce participation," he said.

Australia climbs global wealth ranks

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUL 2024
... only exceeded by Luxembourg and Switzerland," he said. "This growing wealth, and the wealth transfers now occurring as the baby boomer generation ages, reinforces the need for investors to build a long-term wealth plan and to get the correct advice." ...

Innova backs using leverage in super for housing

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 17 JUN 2024
... Innova co-chief investment officer Dan Miles said rising residential property prices have created unprecedented wealth for Baby Boomers thanks to the power of leverage, lucrative tax breaks, constrained supply, and strong population growth. "Unfortunately ...

Retiree dilemma: Supporting children or preserving lifestyle?

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 3 JUN 2024
... Australians aged 18 to 29 still live at home. Interestingly, the latest Census showed that younger Australians with 25-39-year-old Baby Boomers in 1991 were three times more likely to own their home outright compared to 25-39-year-old Millennials in ...

Australians selling assets over seeking help: ASIC

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 3 JUN 2024
... in the next 12 months, which was far more likely than their older generation counterparts. Around 39% of Gen X and 31% of Baby Boomers reported they expected to experience financial hardship. In addition, over a third of Millennials (40%), Gen Z (35%) ...

Freshwater Wealth launches

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAY 2024
... team of advisers will shortly expand to seven. The advice industry is in a perfect storm given the unmet demand for advice, Baby Boomers are now more aware of their complex needs, and there are not enough advisers to supply the service, he said. "Financial ...

New platform launches for high-net-worth families

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2024
... and women," Tubman said. "Over the next 20 years we will see an unprecedented amount of wealth being transferred from the baby boomers to the millennials. "We are about to witness the feminisation of wealth and the transfer of wealth to a new generation ...

Super funds to solve the housing crisis?

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAY 2024
... that the key determinant of success in retirement is not a superannuation balance, but homeownership status. He noted that baby boomers principally used their houses as a savings vehicle since they didn't have superannuation, and that generation ...