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Census 2011: Australia is changing, and fast

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2012
... wealth management sector, they also present huge challenges for any sections of it unwilling to adapt. For example, Australians are wealthier, getting older, having fewer children, earning more money, spending more on housing, and all this while we are ...

FOFA passes as industry backs professionalism

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUN 2012
... right qualifications will ensure higher standards are set for financial planners and provide further confidence for Australians seeking financial advice," Rantall said. The AFA has also announced a focus on supporting members in implementation, although ...

Older Australians delaying retirement

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUN 2012
... Australian intend to delay retirement. The report, titled Financial Wellbeing: Concerns and choices amongst older Australians, also found that having a mortgage increases the likelihood of delaying retirement by 20%, three quarters of people aged between ...

As many smartphones as people

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 18 JUN 2012
... firm, Telsyte, predicts that more than 20 million smartphones will be used by consumers by 2016 and that by 2014 more Australians will access digital services via a smartphone than a computer. This rate of penetration means Australia will have as many ...

Sequencing risk impacts super savings

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUN 2012
... depleted by the market downturn at a time when they are starting to draw down a pension. "The key challenge facing older Australians and those who advise them and who manage their superannuation funds is how to mitigate sequencing risk so that superannuation ...

Former AFA president mourned

RACHEL DAVIS  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUN 2012
... compassion and overwhelming conviction about the value of advice and its power to transform the lives of ordinary Australians," said Klipin. "As he said in the AFA's 65th anniversary book, 'We are all put on this earth to serve.' He touched many lives ...

PIG now officially PIGS

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUN 2012
... to 60-80 bil two days later) - to recapitalise its bankrupt banks. Were it not for the Queen's Birthday holiday us, Australians all, would today be returning what we bought only yesterday. (Come to think of it, that's another case for the monarchists ...

PM rejects lifting retirement age to 70

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2012
... economic reform scenarios and found that optimising the tax mix and encouraging labour force participation among older Australians could potentially add $20 billion each to GDP within a decade. Increasing female labour force participation could add a ...

Equity value - cheap or the new normal?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUN 2012
There must be some truth in reports that came out a few days ago, that Australians have now surpassed the Brits as the world's biggest whingers. Whinge, whinge, whinge. This went on full display right here, right now after the RBA decided to give the ...

MLC model shows social benefit of Budget

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUN 2012
... financial benefits of these new tax and super changes aren't massive, some suggestions that these changes would leave most Australians worse off are unfounded." The analysis considered changes to some marginal tax rates and income thresholds, a reduced ...