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Ageing population challenges require updated IGR

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAR 2007
... Treasurer Peter Costello. "The central long-term problem for the Australian economy is that our population is ageing. The baby boomers, that huge bulge in population is now working through our society and it means over the next 10 and 20 years, the proportion ...

Equity lenders prepare to take on reverse mortgages

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAR 2007
... start-up equity mortgage specialist that plans to launch an equity mortgage by mid year, has said that it will target the baby boomer and retiree market. Greenway chief executive Peter Martin said yesterday that his group's product would be a "pure" ...

Baby boomers in good shape

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAR 2007
Baby boomers are in a relatively strong financial position for retirement and have more options available than ever before, according to a new report. The 16th AMP.NATSEM Income and Wealth Report, Baby boomers - doing it for themselves report, released ...

38 per cent of US retirees like reverse mortgages

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAR 2007
A survey by global consulting firm McKinsey & Co has found that US baby boomers will be forced to retire far sooner than they had hoped while having too little in retirement savings and holding unrealistic expectations about how they will finance it. ...

Salary sacrifice now three times more powerful

... much of the focus in the lead up to the 1 July introduction of new super rules was on how the Budget has been a bonanza for baby boomers. "Everyone's talking about the million dollar opportunity," he remarked, referring to the four month's window where ...

Planning starts at 30: MLC

... too asset-poor, cash-poor and debt-rich to 'afford' financial advice. And many financial planners agree. Many cater for the baby boomers or the asset-rich and cash-rich 50-somethings. This segment is closer to retirement and therefore more likely to ...

Anti-phishing industry code needed

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  TUESDAY, 21 NOV 2006
... However Paul Ducklin, head of technology with Sophos Australia, disagrees. "I think it's a little bit like throwing out the baby - and the bath - with the bathwater. After all, web sites falsely representing themselves as being associated with financial ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 24 OCT 2006
The economic impact of the Federal Government's baby bonus as well as improved employment conditions in Australia have helped improved the national birth rate, according to the latest data from the ABS. The national birth rate is the highest since 1995 ...

More growth through structured products and MAs

... million Americans will retire over the next 10 years. A similar situation is happening in Australia where the majority of the baby boomers will retire over the next two decades. "That has shifted the demand from growth funds to more income producing ...

You are how you spend, not your age

... consumers spend on financial services, according to a leading demographics expert who argued that labels such as Gen X, Gen Y and Baby Boomers were outmoded and ineffective. Ex-KPMG consumer behaviourist, Ross Honeywill, and co-author Verity Byth have ...