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Riding the retirement tidal wave

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUL 2017
A future where people routinely live to 100 has significant implications for society - and more specifically financial planning, according to State Street Global Advisors head of portfolio strategists Asia-Pacific Jonathan Shead. Speaking at the inaugural ...

Insurers lagging on mental health

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAR 2017
... insurance applicants be labelled with a mental illness because they, for example, once sought counselling following a divorce. In other cases, he's seen applicants with one mental illness refused coverage for all other mental illnesses. "That's like ...

Investors must look further than US: J.P. Morgan

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JAN 2017
... Eurozone where we're going to see 50% of the population in Europe voting. The UK is going to have to figure out how it will divorce itself from the Euro this year. That all adds up to a lot of uncertainty," he said. At home, Craig characterises Australia ...

Investment managers must find purpose, not performance

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 12 DEC 2016
Investment managers need to move away from the current culture of performance-driven investing towards one that is purpose-driven. This is the key theme of the latest insight from State Street's independent think-tank, the Centre for Applied Research ...

Treasurer flags super cap exemptions

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 19 AUG 2016
Treasurer Scott Morrison has flagged that lottery wins and inheritances are unlikely to be included as exemptions around the $500,000 cap on post-tax superannuation contributions. Speaking with Sky News yesterday, Morrison said although inheritances ...

Men more confident than women in managing SMSFs

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 15 FEB 2016
... empower female trustees. This is also true when it comes to funds with joint-trustees, with major life events such as a divorce leaving many female trustees without the confidence to manage what is many individuals biggest investment," Evans said. More ...

AFA winner highlights retirement fears

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 17 DEC 2015
... secure; it's because they were afraid of what happens after retirement," he explained, pointing to escalating rates of divorce and suicide in retiree demographics in Australia. "They're looking for value and meaning in their lives once they stop working ...

The social benefits of advice

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 OCT 2015
... benefits," such as the way decreased financial stress positively affects mental and physical health, reduces the likelihood of divorce and improves social relationships. In this way, he continued, financial advice demonstrates itself as a "value-based" ...

Insurance premiums should be questioned

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 9 OCT 2015
... ranks low on uptake is a life events feature which enables members to change their cover on the occurrence of marriage, divorce or other likeable events. I recommend pruning features which have such low uptake," Crocker said.

What becomes of the broken hearted?

TREVOR HARRIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2015
The period between separation and divorce is fraught with estate planning dangers, CommInsure national technical manager Alex Koodrin explained at a recent Financial Standard Technical Services Forum in Sydney. Koodrin said that the average time period ...