FP – Financial Planning

Where is your cash flow taking you? | Money & Life

Where is your cash flow taking you? When you compare your current lifestyle, expenses and savings with what you’re planning for in retirement, does it all add up? Find out why it’s important to balance your cash flow now with the super savings you’re going to need in retirement. Living from pay cheque to pay cheque is something that many Australians are used to doing. In fact, based on levels of personal debt, quite a …

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Retirement planning: new insights on what clients need most | Money & Life

Retirement planning: new insights on what clients need most What can make the biggest difference to wellbeing in retirement? According to the new Best Possible Retirement Index (BPR Index©) from CoreData, having more in super savings isn’t always the answer to living a better life in retirement. Typically, Australians worry about money more than they worry about anything else and this can have many negative impacts on our lives. The good news is that financial …

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Working in retirement | Money & Life

Working in retirement Work Bonus is an incentive for pensioners to work past retirement age. It allows pensioners to earn more from working each fortnight before their pension payment rate starts to reduce. Retirement can often feel like a lifetime coming. But once you actually get there, it can be both exciting and a little bit daunting. It’s a major life adjustment, and particularly so if you’ve spent decades in the workforce. It’s important to …

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Is it time to throw out the retirement planning rulebook? | Money & Life

Is it time to throw out the retirement planning rulebook? A ‘mix and match’ approach to advice is replacing one-dimensional thinking around retirement income. Based on their attractive tax treatment, other than the Age Pension, account-based pensions (ABPs) remain a retirees’ primary and often only source of retirement income. However, given that the likes of ABPs and term deposits are agnostic to the individual objectives of retirees, there is a growing appetite by financial planners …

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After the Bell: daily market update, April 15 | AMP Capital

ECONOMICS & MARKETS After the Bell: daily market update, April 15 15 Apr, 2020 Some horrific data has hit the streets this week, on soft day for markets. According to our senior economist, Diana Mousina, activity indicators will be at record lows for some time. Important information While every care has been taken in the preparation of this video, AMP Capital Investors Limited (ABN 59 001 777 591, AFSL 232497) and AMP Capital Funds Management …

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Oliver’s Insights – What signposts can we watch to be confident shares have bottomed?

Introduction After a roughly 35% plunge from their February high point to their lows around 23rd March, global and Australian shares have had a 15-20% rally. What’s more this rally has occurred despite increasingly bleak economic data ranging from plunges in business conditions surveys or PMIs (see the next chart) to a record 10 million surge over two weeks in claims for unemployment payments in the US. Volatility remains very high but at least we …

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Digital payments and online banking for older Australians

Digital payments and online banking for older Australians Although we’re already a predominantly cashless society1, the introduction of social distancing has further increased our reliance on digital payments and online banking. Face-to-face encounters have become less frequent in so many areas of our lives – and banking and shopping are no different. So now’s an ideal time for older Australians to start integrating more digital transactions into their everyday banking. Using these methods for the …

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After the Bell: daily market update, April 14 | AMP Capital

ECONOMICS & MARKETS After the Bell: daily market update, April 14 14 Apr, 2020 Markets were up today and some promising data has come out of Australia, Europe and the US over the weekend. However, as senior economist Diana Mousina explains, there remains some horrible economic data to brace for. Important information While every care has been taken in the preparation of this video, AMP Capital Investors Limited (ABN 59 001 777 591, AFSL 232497) …

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After the Bell: daily market update, April 9 | AMP Capital

ECONOMICS & MARKETS After the Bell: daily market update, April 9 09 Apr, 2020 The ASX was up and some rallies have been creeping through in recent weeks. Our senior economist, Diana Mousina, talks us through the day and the week that was in markets, and what’s on the calendar for the weeks ahead. Important information While every care has been taken in the preparation of this video, AMP Capital Investors Limited (ABN 59 001 …

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Market Update 10 April 2020 | AMP Capital

Investment markets and key developments over the past week Share markets pushed higher again over the past week on the back of a declining number of new coronavirus cases in several countries raising the prospect of a relaxation in shutdowns, as policy stimulus measures continued to provide confidence that the economic downturn may be relatively short and as talk of a cut in global oil production boosted energy shares. While Australian banks were hit on talk …