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FEATURE: Gear up for retirement

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2014
... Australians were confronted with the crude reality that the system cannot cater for the needs of the country's ageing population and self-funded retirement is not optional anymore. Retirees will increasingly have to build retirement portfolios that protect ...

Prepare for the 'financial Amazon': Joye

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUN 2014
... Commonwealth Bank, whose market capitalisation is greater than that of McDonald's despite Australia's relatively small population. Joye also touched on the amendments to the Future of Financial Advice reforms, saying that "one real wrinkle" in the reforms ...

Exceeding your MAXpectations

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2014
... professionals are forecast to manage $8 trillion of retirement savings in 20 years. At the moment, less than 20% of the population seek professional advice. Is it really fair that $6 trillion of savings rely on the will of the gods? CEOs and CIOs are ...

Group risk premiums on the up: Rice Warner

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2014
... average," Rice Warner head of research Thierry Bareau said. He added that a combination of forces including changing population demographics and underwriting pressures appear to lie at the base of this new pricing development. "Should the group segment ...

MAX Preview: Beyond value of advice

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUN 2014
... 9,000 practices and 826 licensed adviser groups. Illustrating the nascent stages of the industry, less than 20% of the population seek professional advice. A The MAX one-day professional learning program for marketers and BDMs is on 18 June, Wednesday ...

Super isn't working for us, say baby boomers

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 2 JUN 2014
... ever the over 50s needed trust in a robust superannuation system, it's now. The ratio of pension recipients to working population is predicted to rise from 20 per 100 per working population in 2010 to as high as 36 per 100 per working population by 2030. ...

Baby boomers account for four in five dollars under advice

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAY 2014
... and four out of every five dollars under advice, the latest report from researcher Investment Trends shows. An aging population and generational wealth differences have made retirees and pre-retirees the pre-eminent markets for financial planners - and ...

Dancing with digital: MAX

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAY 2014
... educational videos (a no-go zone for many fund managers). That said, Scopelliti noted that nine million or nearly half of the population are either Gen X and Gen Y: his talk gets to the bottom of how these digital investors behave when it comes to managing ...

Beware engaged baby boomers, super funds told

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAY 2014
... written complaints in 2012-13. "With great respect to you as administrators and trustees, 2,444 out of a superannuation population of 27 million is a very small number of complaints indeed. And with enormous respect, I don't think it means that the industry ...

La Trobe registers for the Shanghai Free Trade Zone

ALICE URIBE  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAY 2014
... FTZ ) as part of an effort to participate in China's proposed financial market deregulation. "Asia's development and population base means it is now well on track to be a significant global player in financial markets. Looking towards 2020, we believe ...