by James Coyle | Nov 24, 2023 | Planning for Retirement
What you believe will help Our regular Retirement Pulse surveys never fail to surprise. Yes, they always deliver useful insights and help us understand your key concerns. But they also often deliver useful solutions to problems that plague retirees across the...
by James Coyle | Oct 19, 2023 | Planning for Retirement
Recent news reports about 4.6 million Australians were alarming for retirees. The news was that more than one quarter of us are ‘too poor to retire’. We tracked down the research which led to these widespread TV and press reports. It came from comparison website,...
by James Coyle | Sep 27, 2023 | Planning for Retirement
Q. I’d like to travel overseas for six months. Do I need to wait until Age Pension age? I’m only 61 and really want to head off now. That’s the question that Anishka posed a few weeks back. She’s single, 61 and has a strong desire to enjoy extended travel experiences...
by Kaye Fallick | Sep 15, 2023 | Planning for Retirement
In a previous article we have analysed some of the different ways of setting retirement savings and spending targets. These main projections are published regularly by the Association of Super Funds Australia (ASFA), the Super Consumers Association (SCA) and...
by James Coyle | Jul 31, 2023 | Planning for Retirement
Managing your retirement finances can be pretty daunting when you no longer have a regular salary to fall back on. There are so many questions and issues to think about including. Are you getting, and maximising, all your Centrelink entitlements? What should you...
by James Coyle | Jul 19, 2023 | Planning for Retirement
What the numbers tell us ‘Life’s what happens while we’re busy making other plans’, said the inimitable John Lennon. Sadly and ironically this was the case for Lennon himself, gone way too soon at just 40. None of us can ever know what lies ahead. That’s probably a...