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New advice firm hits Melbourne

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 OCT 2023
... debt management, investments, superannuation, insurance, asset protection, tax planning, government support benefits, aged care, retirement planning and estate planning. Interestingly, Source Wealth will also specialise in divorce and personal injury ...

Challenger posts record annuity sales

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 17 OCT 2023
... CarePlus product achieved its highest quarter of sales since launching in 2015, reflecting the growing opportunity in aged care. Consistent with growing longer duration business, Challenger said retail fixed term annuity sales of two years or more increased ...

Treasury outlines plans to boost employment

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 26 SEP 2023
... bid to tackle a lag in the employment rate of First Nations people. According to the paper, in 2021 Indigenous Australians aged 15 to 64 had a 52.2% employment rate compared to 74.6% for non-Indigenous people in the same age group, a 22.4% gap. The partnership ...

Older Aussies are retirement illiterate: Survey

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 19 SEP 2023
... Pension varies considerably with the value of the pensioners' assets rather than the amounts they drawdown," he said. Aged care also weighs heavily on retirees' minds for a variety of reasons, ranging from human vulnerability to the incidence of dementia ...

Aussie investors tighten purse strings: Survey

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 19 SEP 2023
... achieve their investment goals," D'Souza added. The research, conducted last month, included 1056 Australian investors aged over 18 years.

Australia sees modest uptick in HNWIs: Study

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 18 SEP 2023
... guidance, HNWIs acknowledged "a need for advice" with inheritance and estate planning, intergenerational advice, and aged care ranking. Praemium said the need for advice in these areas is now at its highest in the three years it has been sponsoring this ...

Cost-of-living crisis will persist into future: Study

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 15 SEP 2023
... or over, 59% said they could cut their spending to adjust to the cost-of-living increases. Unknown future health and aged care costs, as well as the added pressure of financially assisting adult children and other family members who are struggling to ...

Young Aussies flock to SMSFs

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 14 SEP 2023
... self-managed super funds (SMSFs), according to new analysis from Class. The 2023 Annual Benchmark Report reveals that Generation X aged 42 to 56 (52.7%) and Millennials aged 27 to 41 (23.7%) collectively drove 76.4% of new fund establishments in the ...

Ring-fencing super for aged care adds complexity, cost: ASFA

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 SEP 2023
In a submission to the Aged Care Taskforce, which is currently evaluating the fairness and sustainability of aged care funding in Australia, the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) has voiced strong opposition to ring-fencing superannuation ...

Priority Advisory Group, Wise Planners merge

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 SEP 2023
... advisers. Based in Sydney's north shore, the newly merged firm will have four divisions: personal and family wealth, aged care, life risk insurance, and workplace financial advice. The two practices are authorised representatives of Fortnum Private ...