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ALP would cut financial literacy funding: Dutton

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAR 2007
... Labor is to find the money for their irresponsible spending rather than help ordinary Australians achieve their financial goals." Nominations for the Australian NetGuide awards are received from readers and the category winners are then decided by a ...

Teach a man to fish: ANZ

... were still saving after 24 months. "This shows Saver Plus is not only helping participants achieve their short term savings goals, but more importantly, it is also developing long-term behaviour change which is continuing after the monitoring, incentives ...

Zurich expands super and allocated pension menus

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 23 JAN 2007
... advisers by making it easy for them to provide a sound portfolio of investment options that will match their clients' needs and goals," said Matthew Drennan, director of investments. Drennan said the expanded menu was driven by adviser feedback. "Advisers ...

Plum treads its own path past $8b

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 5 DEC 2006
... That's a great run rate, but our challenge going forward is to help all Plum members save enough to achieve their retirement goals," Fitzsimons said. To this end, Plum launched the Escalator Program earlier this year, a superannuation savings system ...

Paul Barrett to head up distribution at CFS

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 4 DEC 2006
... of advisers and the demands placed upon them. I look forward to supporting advisers to meet their investors' and business goals."

Access all asset classes: Vanguard

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 4 DEC 2006
... realistic expectations of returns" and should consider whether an actively managed fund was really suited to their investment goals, and whether drilling down too far in chasing asset classes was really effort and money well spent. "Regardless of whichever ...

Members Equity offering saving without fees

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 27 NOV 2006
... customers what they wanted most from their bank. "MEB has undertaken extensive qualitative research to understand the savings goals of working Australian families. We've identified that consumers are frustrated with unnecessary fee structures and want ...

Failure to focus on after-tax letting down members

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 20 NOV 2006
... measuring the performance of fund managers by their before-tax returns was inadequate, misleading and sometimes counter to the goals of the fund. "Super funds have after-tax objectives. But decisions are made on pre-tax information. This is imperfect ...

AFS begins restructure

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 9 NOV 2006
... has been appointed head of strategic development. Peer's brief is to work with management to devise long term strategic goals, processes and solutions to improve the profitability, efficiency and financial viability of AFS practices and advisers. Peer ...

FPA appoints GM for standards, certification and education

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 27 OCT 2006
... looking forward to bringing Deen's passion, energy and experience to the fulfillment of FPA's professional and co-regulatory goals", Ms. Bloch added. Sanders takes up the role from 11 December and will be based in Sydney.