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Wealth forecasting engine announces Infocus as first client

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 7 MAR 2016
... first engine client, making use of a simulator that projects an investor's future wealth and provides savings rate, retirement age, and asset allocation recommendations for all life stages. Assets invested through Infocus' direct-to-consumer advice solution ...

Rising age pension costs unfair on young people: CIS

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAR 2016
... were willing to contribute to past generations," it said. According to the CIS report, the percentage of people of retirement age receiving the age pension more than doubled over the past century as has the real (post inflation) cost of each age pension. ...

NAB Prosper launches next month

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 21 SEP 2015
... they might pull around what they need to do to grow their retirement nest egg," Miller said. "If you change your retirement age from 55 to 65 it has a massive difference on the amount of money you need for retirement. If you change your contribution ...

Australians are hardly retirement ready

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2015
... Rice Warner found those between 60 to 64-years-old were the least likely to be retirement ready - assuming the retirement age is 67. Couples are faring better than singles in the approach to be "retirement ready". The CommBank Retire Ready Index suggests ...

Super gender gap large, but closing

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 20 AUG 2015
... women have much lower median balances across all age groups. "This makes it very difficult for women to catch up by retirement age," Morris continued. "Furthermore, a serious problem exists for both sexes with regards to inadequate funds from super for ...

Extend compulsory super to self-employed: ASFA

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2015
... financial assets, and they may face problems retaining the standard of living they are accustomed to when they reach retirement age." Vamos said that of particular concern are self-employed workers "being forced to move to a contractor, rather than part-time ...

Graccident averted (yet again)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUN 2015
... because Tsipras batted his eyelids - he blinked. Reuters reports that, "In its proposal, Greece offered to raise the retirement age gradually to 67 and curb early retirement. It also offered to reform the value-added-tax system to set the main rate at ...

Australians ill prepared for financial future

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2015
... many Australians in the later years of their working life - those who have only 15 to 20 years until they reach retirement age - haven't got financial plans in place. In fact, less than one in 10 people aged 40 to 49 said they had a comprehensive financial ...

Former Gold Coast adviser sentenced

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2015
... high risk strategy of recommending double gearing strategies to his clients, the majority who were approaching retirement age, was completely at odds with the provision of appropriate financial advice," said ASIC deputy chair Peter Kell.

Embrace rising retirement age, says futurist

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 13 NOV 2014
The rising retirement age is nothing to fear because in a service economy we are not going to die of over-physical work, according to IBISWorld chairman and 'futurist' Phil Ruthven AM. Ruthven told delegates at the Association of Superannuation Funds ...