BABY BOOMERS

Financial planning

The avalanche of financial planning changes in the last year has left institutions with more orphan clients than real clients, a veteran adviser believes. ...

image
Funds management

An over-supply of business owners looking to retire and sell up means they may be overestimating the value of their businesses....

image

Boomers concerned super contributions not enough to boost retirement....

image
Editorial

A recent white paper by Lonsec and Milliman explores the conundrum facing retirees trying to balance security of income against the need for investment growth to fund gre...

image
Financial planning

After more than two years under new ownership, research house Lonsec has branched out into the online space, launching a planner portal aimed at retirement advice and por...

image
Superannuation

New research suggests too many people are still confused about the pension and retirement adequacy....

image
Superannuation

More than nine out of 10 Australians do not know the value of the age pension despite the high probability it will be their main form of income in retirement, a survey ha...

image

Challenger appears to have hit a sweet spot for both annuities and funds management, according to its full-year result. ...

image
Superannuation

Pengana CEO Russell Pillemer has reinforced the need to examine inherent risk in investment portfolios as Australia's baby boomers approach retirement....

image
Financial planning

When it comes to servicing Australia’s ageing and increasingly wealthy population, many advisers overlook the opportunities that exist in philanthropy. Lawyer Vincent Ho...

image
Editorial

The financial services industry’s approach to post-retirement has long been regarded as stale. Critics’ voices have become ever louder and, as Janine Mace reports, the in...

image
Superannuation

SelfWealth has signed a wholesale distribution agreement with SMSF administration software provider BGL Corporate Solutions....

image
Financial planning

The move by governments and corporates to exit the pension business, combined with the first waves of baby boomers reaching retirement, has shifted a higher level of risk...

image
Funds management

Plato’s Australian Shares Income Fund has won the Lonsec/Money Management’s Fund Manager of the Year Award for best Retirement Product Innovation for 2013. ...

image
Financial planning

New research reveals degree to which Australians are embracing technology in their banking habits....

image
sub-bgsidebar subscription

Never miss the latest news and developments in wealth management industry

MARKET INSIGHTS

Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

3 weeks ago

This verdict highlights something deeply wrong and rotten at the heart of the FSCP. We are witnessing a heavy-handed, op...

3 weeks 5 days ago

Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....

1 month ago

Insignia Financial has confirmed it is considering a preliminary non-binding proposal received from a US private equity giant to acquire the firm. ...

5 days 22 hours ago

Six of the seven listed financial advice licensees have reported positive share price growth in 2024, with AMP and Insignia successfully reversing earlier losses. ...

1 day 13 hours ago

A former Brisbane financial adviser has been charged with 26 counts of dishonest conduct regarding a failure to disclose he would receive substantial commission payments ...

4 weeks 1 day ago