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A man is not a plan: Rice Warner

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2020
... International Women's Day. The two key factors for a more comfortable retirement are marriage and home ownership, but with higher divorce rates and escalating property prices closing the gap in super balances is more important then ever, according to ...

Chief economist update: UK is now Bailey's baby

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 FEB 2020
... have recovered." Still, until the UK-EU negotiations are finalised at the end of this year, the possibility of a no-deal divorce will continue to remain a nagging uncertainty for the UK economy. Looks like incoming BOE Governor Andrew Bailey would have ...

Chief economist update: Brexit - the news that was

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 JAN 2020
"MPs voted to give third reading to the Withdrawal Agreement Bill (WAB) by 330 to 231 - a majority of 99 - which allows the bill to sail through to the House of Lords where peers will begin line by line scrutiny next week." This the latest news from ...

Chief economist update: Three cheers for Christmas

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 DEC 2019
... expecting a rate HIKE next year. Next stop, Brexit. The three and half year uncertainty that is the United Kingdom's divorce from the European Union has become less uncertain following the Conservative Party's, led by Prime Minister Boris Johnson ...

Trillionaires around the corner: study

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 18 OCT 2019
... when he will be 62 years old, according to UK website Comparisun. His trillionaire status will come despite of his recent divorce from MacKenzie Bezos after 26 years of marriage. Bezos' net worth has grown at 34% an average over the last five years ...

Chief economist update: Brexit uncertainty is not all that bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 OCT 2019
... medieval times, the kingdom's ruler is now a figurehead. The chance of the UK leaving the EU on October 31 is 100% if the divorce is finalised without a deal. Parliament doesn't want that, keeping alive the uncertainty of the how and when of ...

Chief economist update: The fear of Brexit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 AUG 2019
... a vote of no confidence versus Johnson, reverse Brexit, and/or delay the prime minister's hard deadline of a final divorce by 31 October 2019. "Groans and convulsions, and a discoloured face, and friends weeping, and blacks, and obsequies, and the ...

NEOS upgrades super product

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUL 2019
Enhancements to NEOS Life's superannuation product Super Plan are helping customers apply for cover in a fraction of the time. When applying for the risk-only superannuation product, a customer's identity is validated and automatically matched with ...

University to probe reverse mortgages

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUN 2019
... The said borrowers typically entered reverse mortgage arrangements as a result of one or more unforeseen events such as divorce, losses in superannuation, poor health, early retirement and higher costs of living. ASIC reviewed 17,000 reverse mortgages ...

Super startup to relaunch

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 30 APR 2019
... points out members won't be charged any extra in circumstances where they need to split their superannuation after a divorce. Xplore Wealth head of distribution and marketing Tony Nejasmic told Financial Standard the partnership between Aracon and ...