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Property investing key to outlasting super

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 7 NOV 2017
... four of the eight measures: economic growth, retail spending, business investment, unemployment, construction work, population growth, housing finance and dwelling starts, he said. Meanwhile, a new report from Industry Super Australia shows housing affordability ...

Charter Hall launches fund, backs consumer spending

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 2 NOV 2017
... non-discretionary items from their household budgets and consequently demand for them generally grows in line with population. They are not subject to the volatility of demand associated with more discretionary items and they are very often dominant ...

Advice industry compensation bill hits $37m

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 27 OCT 2017
... of scale. Net contribution flows also declined as a percentage of average net assets, reflecting Australia's ageing population and the maturing of the superannuation system, as a growing number of members reach retirement age and begin to draw down superannuation ...

Super lump sums increase poverty risks: Report

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 OCT 2017
... of 10 Australian retirees over 75-years-old are income-poor, and living on less than half the median income of the population, according to the OECD Preventing Ageing Unequally report. Choosing lump sum payments from pension schemes "can truly increase ...

Aussie super maintains good grades

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 23 OCT 2017
... there is room for improvement. "Without the immigration of young people from other countries our ageing locally-born population would face significant challenges funding their retirement," Buckingham said. "The reason is simply that as we live longer ...

AMP Capital shutters core equities, restructures team

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 12 OCT 2017
... Australian equities plays to our strengths and the needs of our clients," Allen added. "Demographic shifts towards an ageing population and rising client demand for income means there is strong demand for equity income products. This is particularly ...

Accessing financial wellbeing: The power of general advice

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 OCT 2017
The proliferation of financial stress across the Australian population is at its height and yet so many impediments to gaining quality financial advice remain. This is the key driver behind Association of Financial Advisers' president and Noall ...

The trillion dollar pension fund

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 SEP 2017
... Management manages the fund on behalf of the Ministry of Finance, which owns the fund on behalf of the Norwegian people - a population of approximately 5.2 million. In April last year the Norges Bank announced that 52 coal companies, including Australia-based ...

The rise and impact of insurtech

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 14 SEP 2017
... necessary one," UBS head of APAC Investment Office, Min Lan Tan said. In 2016 emerging Asia held about 43% of the world's population but just 13% of its total premiums as a result of traditional distribution models proving costly and inefficient due ...

Superannuation and debt: Inextricably linked

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 SEP 2017
... said, the "humps of debt just move along" as a person ages, and things are unlikely to improve given Australia's ageing population. Due to this, based on research, he said that if you have a super nest get between zero and $450,000, "you will likely ...