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Asia-Pacific needs more retirement income specialists: Milliman

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2017
... noted. In particular, more than 60% of companies surveyed felt financial advice is required by the majority of the population, but importantly, they did not feel as if advice should be reserved for net worth customers only. Currently, less than 20% of ...

Sharing economy to reshape global real estate

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAY 2017
... just the millennials, the baby boomers are making their preferences felt as well. According to research, 70% of the population in developed countries will live in cities by 2050. Baby boomers, unlike their predecessors, are drawn to the conveniences ...

Wealth transfer poses advice business risk

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 28 APR 2017
... intergenerational wealth transfer in history. New GlobalData research shows while millionaires represent just 0.2% of the world's population, they hold over 30% of the world's investable assets. On top of that, 35% of the world's millionaires are over ...

RARE fund receives Lonsec tick

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 APR 2017
... Infrastructure Income Fund (formerly the RARE Yield Fund), which is designed to help meet the income needs of an ageing population, received the rating as a result of the Lonsec's strong conviction that the fund can generate risk adjusted returns in ...

IFM Investors and Samsung partner for infrastructure fund

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  THURSDAY, 20 APR 2017
An Australian institutional investment manager is partnering with Korea-based Samsung Asset Management to form a global infrastructure debt fund. The US$480 million fund will be jointly managed by IFM Investors and Samsung Asset Management to invest ...

Elder financial abuse requires education

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 18 APR 2017
... requires increased education for trustees and advisers, not stricter legislation. The dangers emerging from an ageing population and cognitive decline makes elderly superannuation fund members more vulnerable to financial risk, but the SMSFA's head of ...

Australian Unity appoints trustee GM

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAR 2017
... recognised that there is a growing need for trustee services amongst middle income Australians, particularly as the population ages," Sakellaris said. "An important part of my role will be to ensure we continue to build a high calibre team who can provide ...

Women-led super funds outperform, so why so few leaders

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 MAR 2017
... said, however, this out-performance is not the core issue. The low ratio of women in leadership positions is. Half the population is female, half of superannuation membership is female yet less than 40% of fund executives are women, 28% of fund trustees ...

Global advice group becomes investment bank

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAR 2017
... which is based on good governance, pro-business policies, legal expertise and an educated, English and French-speaking population," Green said. He added that given deVere's extensive experience in global financial advice, the group was "best-placed to ...

Australian Unity enters trustee services

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 2 MAR 2017
... objective for Australian Unity. There is an increasing need for estate planning and trustee-type services as the Australian population ages and personal circumstances become more complex, for instance with blended families, diseases of ageing such as ...