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Retirement income the big challenge

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 6 AUG 2012
... annual review, 16% of the membership of Australian super funds now holds 31% of the assets, representing the baby boomer generation about to hit retirement. As a result there is now a huge challenge about where to invest in retirement, McFarlane said. ...

UK should raise state pension age to 70: PwC

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 25 JUL 2011
... need to be." The UK is facing similar demographic shifts as Australia with the retirement of the post-war baby boomer generation beginning to retire while life expectancy rises. The UK's ratio of working age people to those above state pension age is ...

Older people seek more financial advice

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUL 2011
... tendency for older people to seek advice, and said it was an age category dominated by men because the baby boomer generation had a lot of stay-at-home mothers. "They had no super," he said. "Their husband built up the account balance as it was generally ...

Dutch pension tackles longevity risk and ageing population

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 7 MAR 2011
... affordability of the system," she said. Besides longevity risk, an ageing population is also an issue. Bos said the baby boomer generation is squeezing through the population pyramid, resulting in a pyramid that is getting higher and wider at the top. ...

Peering into the future

JOHN MCDULING  |  TUESDAY, 31 AUG 2010
... Scully for the industry was a shift from the "accumulation" phase to a "retirement income" phase, as the baby boomer generation becomes further entrenched in retirement. As a result, many pension funds will have more pensioners than contributors, putting ...

Wealth transfer strategies top adviser books

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUN 2010
... Younger, said at the firm's annual conference last month that the transfer of wealth or inheritance from the Baby Boomer generation and their parents to their children and grandchildren over the next two decades could be the catalyst of an adviser's ...

Time to grow: Securitor

MICHELLE BALTAZAR IS A MEDIA GUEST OF THIS YEAR'S SECURITOR ANNUAL CONFERENCE.  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 APR 2010
... break a planner's business in the future. One is the massive transfer of wealth, or inheritance, from the Baby Boomer generation and their parents to their children and grandchildren over the next two decades. According to a Bankwest report called the ...

Planners sidelined for self-investing strategies

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 FEB 2010
... were likely to invest in global shares, compared to just 29 per cent of Gen Xers and 13 per cent of the Baby Boomer generation. Familiarity with the local stock market lies in the two latter demographics preferring to put their money in local investments ...

Planners prepare for retirement shock

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2009
... said. Either way, McKeon said that total retirement planning could soon become the norm as the bulk of the baby boomer generation retire. But he doesn't think all financial planning firms will do it. "The smarter financial planning firms will recognise ...

Boomers to postpone retirement

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2009
Almost half of the baby boomer generation in the UK, France, Germany, the US and Australia expect to postpone their retirement because of the global financial crisis, according to a new study. The TNS Financial Crisis Study found 44 per cent of respondents ...