BABY BOOMERS

Financial planning

The sheer size of the baby boomer generation presents a retirement planning opportunity too good for financial advisers to miss. But the fact that they also think differe...

Financial planning

Inflows to managed funds are expected to grow at between 5 and 10 per cent a year over the next two to three years, according to a new KPMG report into the wealth managem...

Financial planning

A SIGNIFICANT cultural shift is underway in our attitudes towards retirement....

Financial planning

If you think this Federal election is a fizzer, then consider this: if the Labor party manages to unseat the Government in less than two weeks time, you will no longer be...

Financial planning

Almost two thirds of baby boomers do not have financial plans or have a financial planner with nine out of 10 confident of their own financial knowledge according to a su...

Financial planning

Financial services institutions will battle it out for a share of $25 billion in annual fees by early next decade according to the latest bi-annual Market Projections Rep...

Financial planning

Generation Xers - already feeling the strain from huge increases in housing and tertiary education costs, job insecurity and changes to welfare - can look forward to furt...

Financial planning

While most financial planners probably understand the essentials of handling the accumulation phase of self-managed superannuation funds (SMSF), they will need to know a ...

Superannuation

The sad truth is that many clients will not be able to retire when they want to. Mike Taylor reports....

Financial planning

Australian baby boomers will have to save for their own retirement rather than rely on inheritance handouts, as existing retirees are living longer and increasingly optin...

Superannuation

RetireInvest is on the up and up – and they want you....

Financial planning

As the end of the financial year approaches, Julie Bennett looks at how well advisers think traditional tax planning strategies stack up this year....

Financial planning

Australia’s peak industry body for the superannuation industry, the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA), has warned the Government that any increased ...

Policy & Regulation

Two of the financial services industry’s most influential lobby groups have joined forces to call on the Government to cut taxes on superannuation contributions in order ...

Financial planning

From its birth only three years ago, Matrix Financial Group has established a successful network of financial advisers. BARBARA MESSER reports....

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