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Enduring baby boomers redefine retirement

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 24 SEP 2012
... years) once they've stopped working. Then there are retirees in higher socio-economic groupings with better health and wealth outcomes who - based on emerging actuarial analysis - can look to a life expectancy well into their mid 90s. "Planning for retirement ...

Financial Simplicity boosts managed accounts offering

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2012
... upgraded its managed accounts offering to include a personalised multi-tax wrapper rebalancing to model portfolios for its wealth management clients. This new functionality has been added to enable wealth managers to calculate and resolve which investment ...

Waiting to digest

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2012
... stats as precisely the reason behind the central banks' recent actions - that, in time, the flood of money would create a wealth effect that would encourage consumers to spend more, businesses to hire and invest more and ultimately, create a self-reinforcing ...

Family businesses provide engine for recovery

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2012
... seen as a long-term perspective and sense of custodianship given the family business accounted for the majority of family wealth among survey respondents. The research found that "most [respondents] have a long-term payback approach to investment and ...

New MLC product protects retirees from volatility

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  THURSDAY, 20 SEP 2012
... and the size of accumulated savings, continuing to invest in growth assets after retirement can generate over half the wealth we'll eventually consume," he noted. However, Barnett said, following the GFC, people have become acutely aware of the need ...

Zurich launches life risk update

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 SEP 2012
... said the Zurich Upgrade Guarantee will ensure that that the changes filter through to old clients as well as new. "Our Wealth Protection range has been on sale since 1998, meaning customers who took out their policy more than a decade ago have the same ...

Deutsche Bank restructures

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 18 SEP 2012
Deutsche Bank has created a new integrated Asset & Wealth Management division at the global level, calling the unit an "essential part" of the universal banking model and effectively curtailing earlier speculation it was up for sale. The new division's ...

Treasury paper ignores responsibility: ACFS

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 17 SEP 2012
... institution as troubled and imposing unwarranted interventions on its activities," Davis said. He contends that reallocations of wealth and social costs associated with resolution of a failed institution, which can impose an additional source of risk ...

Shorten defends low-income super contribution

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2012
... morning, Minister Shorten said the low-income super contribution (LISC), which commenced on 1 July 2012, will build the wealth of some 3.6 million of the lowest paid workers by almost $1 billion a year, helping to take pressure off the pension. "The ...

Adviser faces court on 22 charges

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  THURSDAY, 13 SEP 2012
Former WealthSure financial adviser, Brian William Veitch has appeared in court on 22 fraud charges, after he allegedly fraudulently transferred funds totalling $500,000 from seven client accounts without their knowledge or authority. These charges ...