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FoFA opt-in to cause advisers biggest headache

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2014
... system operates. We're waiting for direction from ASIC and the FPA. It's a wait and see again." Pierre Ong of Victoria Teachers Mutual Fund said: "It's pretty frustrating. It only came out yesterday and we'll know more about it when the dust settles ...

New tech can't beat face-to-face advice meetings

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 14 OCT 2014
... research explored the financial attitudes of 2,500 public sector employees, including the nation's nurses, police and teachers. State Super Financial Services general manager of financial planning, Sean Bradley, said the research showed the initial formation ...

Abbott eyes Canadian pension money

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUN 2014
... fund'. Canadian pension funds are already significant investors in global infrastructure. The C$140 billion plus Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan, for example, allocates 22% of its portfolio to real assets, $11.7 billion of which is in infrastructure. ...

PROFILE: MetLife head of distribution Michael Gooddall

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAR 2014
... geography and economics teacher, but a lack of opportunity saw him take a more pragmatic turn. "There were so many unemployed teachers when I came out of the system in 1981, especially in the social sciences, that I thought 'I'll just go and get a job," ...

PROFILE: AMP Horizons director Amelia Constantinidis

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 30 JAN 2014
... range of backgrounds with the skills and experience they need to fast-track into the professional planning industry. Teachers, vets, chefs and even professional athletes have been among the 650 who have passed through the 12-month course in its relatively ...

Pension uncertainty for municipal workers in Detroit

HARRY PAGE  |  FRIDAY, 6 DEC 2013
... Aubry added. According to CNNMoney, a pension overhaul has also been approved by Illinois. This cut pension benefits for teachers, nurses and other retired state-employed workers further damaging the reputation of the U.S public pension system.

NGS Super rethinks ESG as green option flops

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 SEP 2013
... been a matter of considerable interest to us for a number of years." He said that, while the fund's members (largely teachers) pay lip service to green values, they are not putting their money where their mouth is. One reason for this could be the volatility ...

FPA wants schools to teach financial literacy

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUL 2013
... proposed expanding financial literacy in the formal education sector as well as taking key actions such as training more teachers to teach financial literacy in schools. The FPA also said that it supported financial advisers who want to run school and ...

Greece what?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUL 2013
... mandated austerity measures - wage cuts and "plans for a transfer and layoff scheme for 25,000 public workers - mainly teachers and municipal police," according to Reuters. Reuters also reports that this 25,000 sorry mob would be given eight months to ...

Niche mergers have their benefits

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAY 2013
... niche service is equally important, and Rodwell-Ball attends "at least ten" member meetings a year around the country. "Teachers are very intellectually curious people," he said. They want to know what their money is doing.