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Expected retirement age slowly going up

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 10 DEC 2013
Despite the policy push for increasing the retirement age, most Australians are still retiring in their early fifties even though more future retirees expect to have to keep working beyond age 70. The average age of retirement in Australia in 2012-13 ...

Consumers find super 'mind-boggling', survey shows

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 9 DEC 2013
Consumers view superannuation as "risky", "complex", "mind-boggling" and "stressful", according to a new consumer survey commissioned by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). The purpose of the survey, conducted by Latitude Insights ...

FPA to lobby against FoFA redundancy

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 5 DEC 2013
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) will lobby to take the opt-in requirement and other redundancies out of the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) reforms as soon as the government issues its proposal to amend the legislation. "Opt-in is redundant ...

Superannuation Research Cluster makes two appointments

HARRY PAGE  |  THURSDAY, 5 DEC 2013
Doctors Sonja Kassenboehmer and Jun Feng have been appointed to the CSIRO-Monash University Superannuation Research Cluster as part of its $9 million research program. Kassenboehmer is currently a post-doctoral fellow at the Melbourne Institute of Applied ...

Financial execs have poor ethics, little regulatory knowledge

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 3 DEC 2013
Most financial service executives admit that career progression is difficult without "flexible" ethical standards and only 12% are confident in their knowledge of the regulatory environment, a CFA Institute research found. The global study, entitled ...

Canberra adviser rolls out pilot project to engage GenYs

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 2 DEC 2013
An MLC financial adviser based in Canberra has come up with Cashflow Coach, a pilot program designed to engage GenYs in financial planning. Cashflow Coach, which has been designed by financial adviser Michael Miller, gathers about 10 young people together ...

Former Goldman Sachs exec to head REST in-house equities team

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 NOV 2013
Former Goldman Sachs head of equity strategy Chris Pidcock will head up REST Industry Super's new in-house Australian equities investment team, REST chief executive Damian Hill has said. Pidcock, who left Goldman Sachs in 2012 after 23 years, will head ...

Fund managers rethink distribution approach after FoFA

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 NOV 2013
A growing number of fund managers are making changes in their distribution strategy and bringing their retail and institutional distribution teams closer together to reflect industry consolidation brought on by the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) ...

People aged 85+ to triple by 2040

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 26 NOV 2013
Just released updated population projections from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) forecasts that by 2040 the number of people aged 65 or more will double and number aged 85 or more will triple. "The number of people 65 and over is projected ...

BetaShares set to increase adviser focus

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 26 NOV 2013
Exchange traded funds (ETF) provider BetaShares will increase its presence in the financial advice space with the newly created role of director of Adviser Services. Lyndall James has been appointed to the role and she will be responsible for leading ...