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Challenger stages lifetime annuities comeback

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JUN 2013
... monthly income for life." According to Challenger, favourable demographics in the form of the 'greying' Australian population is driving a 20-year growth cycle in specialist retirement investments like lifetime annuities. "Structural demand drivers have ...

Investors move to real assets after GFC

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 18 JUN 2013
... for infrastructure and direct property, the annual Principal Global Investors (PGI) CREATE Report found. The ageing population and a global move by governments and corporates to get out of the "pension business" have encouraged this trend according to ...

Only half Britons saving enough for retirement

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUN 2013

VC funds outperform, punch above their weight

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAY 2013
... the sector is much more mature with 24,000 companies - 48 times the number in Australia compared to the US Australia population ratio - having VC backing.

Retirement platforms to become the new battleground

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 27 MAY 2013
... (FUA) of $125 billion in 2012. That compared to FUA of $96 billion in the retirement segment. However, with an ageing population, this battleground is set to shift to the retirement segment, with the crossover expected to occur in a decade. The projections ...

Variety of strategies needed for all-weather outperformance

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAY 2013
... securities in 11 countries, is in Japanese drug stores. Lowenstein explains that this is both a play on the ageing population in Japan and a local trend for Japanese consumers to prefer local stores to supermarkets. The fund also has a sizeable position ...

LGBT wealth management market worth $3trn

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAY 2013
... from the UK's Office for National Statistics which show that typical two-parent families have fallen from 51% of the population in 1961 to 36% in 2009. LGBT Capital is an asset manager that specialises in providing financial services to the LGBT community. ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 20 MAY 2013
... Australia's second largest telco Optus will expand its latest 4G mobile network to 70 per cent of the country's metropolitan population by the middle of 2014. Its parent company, Singapore Telecommunications, was up 2.5 cents at $3.305 in local trading. ...

Planner numbers drop on FoFA changes

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAY 2013
... as Westpoint which have affected the reputation of planners," he said. De Gori also pointed the fact that the advice population is ageing and transitioning to retirement. Despite this both the FPA and AFA have had upticks in their membership over the ...

Coalition super plan to harm retirees, low income earners

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAY 2013
... the pressure on future governments - as well as generations of taxpayers - to meet the costs of our rapidly ageing population". The AIST was also disappointed that Abbott had confirmed the Coalition's intention to scrap the Government's Low Income Superannuation ...