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FEATURE: Quenching the thirst for income

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2014
... deposit, wedding or family holiday used to be as simple as making regular payments into a high interest cash account, younger savers are now being forced to look to investment assets to meet their goals. The laws of supply and demand dictate that as ...

Young Australians clueless about life insurance

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 SEP 2014
One in five younger Australians knows nothing about his or her life insurance through superannuation, a new report commissioned by the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) has found. Overall the report found 40% of Australians had ...

Gen Ys most keen on intra-fund advice

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUL 2014
... super funds focus on communicating their advice offer to members and using this as a tool to start the conversation with younger members about the value of superannuation savings," CoreData head of financial services Kristen Turnbull said. But intra-fund ...

Christian super funds merge

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUL 2014
... this merger. Our membership will increase by 20% and the demographics of our members will also change, moving towards a younger membership. "This is largely due to the composite of churches within the Australian Christian Churches movement that has a ...

SMSF members getting younger

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUN 2014
... super fund (SMSF) members are aged between 34 and 54 as Australian Taxation Office (ATO) data shows members are getting younger. According to the latest Trends in SMSFS report from CoreData, the age distribution of members has changed drastically in ...

Budget forces advisers to rethink tax, retirement strategies

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAY 2014
... security, aged care and the Age Pension indexation. "Advisers will have to do some strategy and some planning with their younger advisers in terms of when and how they can retire," the FPA general manager of policy and government relations Dante De Gori ...

Poll shows low esteem for financial advisers

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 5 MAY 2014
... their parents. Twenty-eight per cent said they receive no advice of any kind. When asked what advice they would give their younger self, 57% said they would "start saving earlier". One in four said they would advise against getting a credit card. REST ...

Younger Australians taking interest in superannuation

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 15 APR 2014
Younger people are taking a more active interest in their superannuation, according to the latest quarterly MLC Wealth Sentiment Survey. In a break from tradition where younger people have typically been disengaged with their savings, the survey found ...

NGS Super lifts premiums for older members

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 APR 2014
... the person," he said. Overall, the new insurance deal is much more tailored towards members' needs. NGS Super found that younger members, for example, were often significantly over-insured. They therefore lowered the premiums paid by members in their ...

QSuper unveils 'industry first' lifecycle product

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAR 2014
... well as age in its new MySuper product, QSuper Lifestage. While most lifecycle products focus exclusively on age, with younger members on more growth oriented strategies and older members on more defensive ones, QSuper will now also consider its members' ...