AGED CARE

Features

Paul Harding-Davis looks at the five retirement transition phases now that he is approaching the ‘sunset’ of his life....

Superannuation

Retail, aged care, community, and labourer workers are among the biggest losers when it comes to missing out on compulsory super contributions....

Tools & guides

Sean Howard looks at strategies advisers can use to maximise Age Pension entitlements, minimise income-tested care fees, and provide income to a person that needs home ca...

Features

It is time for planners to bring aged care advice into sharper focus and initiate conversations with their clients around cost, structures, and implications for other are...

Financial planning

Education and training standards around aged care advice should be self-regulated by the industry instead of imposing a legal legislative instrument, according to Aged Ca...

Financial planning

Aged care advice is too broad with multiple moving parts to have its own specific, narrow licensing condition, according to the Financial Planning Association....

Features

The Government has moved further to facilitate the development of post-retirement products but, as Hope William-Smith reports, the provision of good advice will remain th...

Features

Understanding the correlation between technological developments and the challenges of caring for elderly clients will help advisers give holistic advice, Richard Dunkerl...

Policy & Regulation

Advisers are moving towards strategic advice as opposed to investment type services and they are particularly interested in the aged care side, according to Aged Care Ste...

Financial planning

Financial planners were only exploring aged care financial advice at a time of crisis for clients and their relatives, but this area could become mainstream in the future...

Financial planning

The percentage of aged care advice specialists will grow to five to 10 per cent but this will be a gradual growth over a long period of time, according to Aged Care Steps...

Tools & guides

Effective financial and estate plans will allow investors to enjoy their retirement years without innate fears about cognitive decline, Mick O’Brien writes....

Life/Risk

CFS has added Challenger’s aged care solution to its FirstChoice platform to meet the growing demand to help clients deal with the complexity and cost of going into aged ...

Editorial

There is a growing body of evidence to suggest that the aged care industry needs the same sort of regulatory oversight as financial planning, including a best interests d...

Knowledge Centre

Increasing life expectancy and the growing number of retirees have created opportunities in the companies that provide services to our aging population. These include nu...

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