Retirement in Australia
Find out how the retirement landscape is changing in Australia.
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Find out how the retirement landscape is changing in Australia.
Australia is in the early stages of an enormous intergenerational wealth transfer. Baby boomers, being those born between 1946 and 1964, have started to retire and/or reaching retirement age. This poses enormous challenges for our economy, and extraordinary opportunities for advisors to those baby boomers.
These opportunities exist in intergenerational transfer within families but also in advising baby boomer business owners, professionals and executives more broadly on their retirement planning strategies.
The following statistics highlight the size of the extraordinary opportunities for advisors to baby boomers:
If the Australian experience is similar – and the US and Australian wealth transfer statistics are similar in many other aspects – then over $2 trillion in wealth transfer is in jeopardy. For example, if, through lack of business succession planning and proper business structures and processes, a business sells at a value of say three times profits rather than four times profits, then 25% of this wealth might simply disappear, with drastic consequences for:
In a recent US survey, 76% of baby boomers said they intended to keep working and earning in retirement, but will alternate periods of work and leisure. 30% of those US baby boomers will continue to work for earnings, and 67% seek continued mental stimulation and challenge. (Generational change: Gen X, Gen Y and baby boomers – hype or risk, by Malcolm Anderson published in ‘Change Drivers’). Again, anecdotal evidence, and comments in the Intergenerational report referred to later in this paper, suggest a similar trend in Australia.
From the family business perspective, the top five issues for families in business are:
Advisers to family businesses should take note of these factors when undertaking assignments for their family business clients – although this will not come as a surprise to many.
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