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Combined Insurance to cease new Australian business

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 FEB 2016
... an enforceable undertaking due to the company "[selling] inappropriate insurance policies to members of at least 18 Aboriginal communities across Australia in circumstances that were unfair and may have been misleading and deceptive." This was compounded ...

Indigenous super on Canberra agenda

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 17 AUG 2015
... to be put on the agenda of the Council of Australian Governments (COAG). Working Group chair, Eva Scheerlinck, said Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have poorer superannuation outcomes than non-indigenous Australians, including significantly ...

Action plans for Indigenous super

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2015
... industry superannuation fund to launch a Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) aiming to further build its relationships with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander stakeholders. HESTA executive people strategy, Sophie Sigalas, said the RAP seeks to increase ...

Whitehelm appointed to advise $2 billion Land Account

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 29 SEP 2014
... Global infrastructure investment manager Whitehelm Capital has been appointed as investment adviser for the $2 billion Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Land Account. Operating under the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Act 2005, the Land Account ...

FICAP RockStar of the year crowned

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAR 2014
... said: "The Kool Kids program has been running for 13 years, and we work with 160 kids a year. 89% of those children are Aboriginal and many have problems with truancy and behavioural problems at school. Many also have problems at home." Count's Mekhail ...

IBA launches REIT for indigenous investors

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2013

FICAP confirms Weave as new charity partner

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 OCT 2013
... contrast, it costs $250,000 to run high quality early intervention programs, such as the Kool Kids Club, for over 160 young Aboriginal people per year." In a change to FICAP's funding model, weave will receive 33% of all funds raised by the organisation ...

FSC to support Indigenous financial literacy

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 1 AUG 2013
... building long term assets, such as a houses and superannuation." The FNF said it wanted to see an Australia in which Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people value their unique and integral contribution to Australia's nationhood. The 2013 FSC Conference ...

LUCRF Super extends Community Partnership Trust to SA

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUL 2013
... Adelaide on 2 July. She announced Western Youth Centre Inc., Pooraka Farm Men's Shed, Willo's Men's Shed and Zebra Finch Aboriginal Men's Group as South Australia's inaugural community partners. The Community Partnership Trust initiative was established ...

Indigenous Australians offered chance to Clime career ladder

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 7 OCT 2011
Clime Asset Management will welcome an Aboriginal trainee into its business next month, with a view to helping them develop into an investment professional and prompt other firms to follow their lead and change perceptions within the industry. Clime ...