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Perth planner named Professional of the Year

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 23 NOV 2017
... services support offered to this community, which provides financial counseling services and financial literacy for high schools students. FPA chair Neil Kendall helped hand out the awards in place of chief executive De Gori, who wasn't able to be there ...

ASIC adds life insurance to school curriculums

KARREN VERGARA AND JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 28 SEP 2017
... its financial literacy initiatives that plans to incorporate life insurance in curriculums across primary and secondary schools. Already the regulator is undertaking an extensive program with state and territory governments to train teachers and update ...

The rise and impact of insurtech

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 14 SEP 2017
... who said the same about insurtechs. A key finding of the report is that the complementary strengths of the new and old schools present a solid case for partnership. About 53% of life insurance executives surveyed said they preferred a partnership model ...

FPA supports children's financial literacy

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 8 SEP 2017
... Association of Australia has partnered with an 'edtech' start-up to help boost financial literacy skills of young Australians. Schools that are referred to Banqer via FPA members will be able to access online interactive programs for students from years ...

Cbus chief executive wins FEAL award

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 4 AUG 2017
... has been awarded a $25,000 executive education grant courtesy of AMP Capital to be used at his discretion with business schools.

Budget for the wealthy: Labor

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2017
... government's budget has locked in $16,000 in tax cuts for people making $1 million a year, he said, and cut funding for schools (including TAFE) and Medicare. The Medicare levy will increase on 1 July 2017 from 2% to 2.5% to fund the National Disability ...

Netwealth backing financial literacy in schools

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAR 2017
... discover a brighter future," Heine said. The program is already used by about 10% of New Zealand's Year 1-7 students, with 28 schools around Australia also already participating. The program is the brainchild of New Zealand school teacher Micah Hocquard ...

FPA educating future planning generation

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JAN 2017
... financial planning qualifications. De Gori added the association is looking at introducing a similar strategy in secondary schools. "We are also developing some tools and resources to support the industry going into high schools. We aren't looking at ...

A mining renaissance courtesy of President Trump

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 NOV 2016
... Americans to unite, the one where he promised to build - not the Mexican Wall - but "highways, bridges, tunnels, airports, schools, hospitals" and "infrastructure." The one where Trump said: "...we will get along with all other nations willing to get ...

Trump is heaven's gift to central banks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 NOV 2016
... infrastructure and lower taxes. "We are going to fix our inner cities and rebuild our highways, bridges, tunnels, airports, schools, hospitals. We're going to rebuild our infrastructure, which will become, by the way, second to none." This explains the ...