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Crisis emerging in Australian retirement system: HILDA

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  THURSDAY, 3 AUG 2017
The University of Melbourne says the long-term sustainability of Australia's retirement system is under threat from a growing wealth divide across generations. According to the university's latest Housing, Income, and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) ...

Baby boomers lag on retirement planning

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 15 JUN 2017
With investors becoming increasingly aware the responsibility to fund their retirement will ultimately fall on their shoulders, baby boomers could learn a thing or two from younger generations. Latest insight from Natixis Global Asset Management on ...

Younger investors flock to offshore equities

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 27 MAR 2017
Generation X and Y investors have a marked preference for international stocks compared to their elders, according to the latest research from nabtrade. In the 12 months to 31 January 2017, nabtrade found Gen X investors raised their turnover of international ...

Half of Australian households will be retire ready

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 7 FEB 2017
About half of Australian households are expected to have enough saved for a comfortable retirement, according to the latest CommBank Retire Ready Index. The report, which bases their comfortable retirement standard on the Association of Superannuation ...

Super funds struggling as member engagement decreases

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 8 AUG 2016
... proportion of "highly disengaged" members also grew from 18.8% in 2015 to 23.8%. This trend is accentuated with younger generation Y members, whose engagement decreased from 47.4% to 41.3%. Unsurprisingly, this also coincides with a slide in members' ...

HESTA investment analyst collects ESG award

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAY 2016
... integration at HESTA and more broadly in the industry. ACSI president Gerard Noonan said it was important for a younger generation of superannuation professionals to take up the pioneering work of O'Sullivan in insisting ESG principles were interwoven ...

Australians pessimistic about retirement lifestyle

KERRIE SYDEE  |  MONDAY, 18 APR 2016
The majority of Australians aged 45 and up (53.1%) believe that they will not have an adequate super balance or income to maintain their desired lifestyle in retirement, according to new research from CoreData. CoreData's 2016 Post Retirement Report ...

App lets Australians invest pocket change

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 FEB 2016
A new app released in Australia will allow users to round up daily purchases and invest the "change" into a diversified exchange-traded fund portfolio. Acorns, created by father-son business Acorns Grow in 2012, was released in the US in 2014 and has ...

Super not "a top-up" for Age Pension: FSC

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 26 FEB 2015
Superannuation should no longer be considered "a top-up" for the Age Pension and the tax treatment of super debate can't be brought up in isolation, the Financial Services Council (FSC) chief executive Sally Loane said in her inaugural speech. "The ...

Super only 35% of retirement nest egg

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 FEB 2015
... come from their savings. Property investments should provide for 13.2% and inheritance 7.1%. "However with the younger generation questioning whether they will ever be able to afford property, it is becoming increasingly critical to understand and engage ...