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Ignore economics, investors are herders

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUN 2007
... director of the Socionomics Institute in Gainesville, Georgia, and Wayne Parker, executive director of the Socionomics Foundation, said previous assumptions that people make financial decisions in the context of the law of supply and demand were misinterpretations ...

QSuper champions fin literacy

... 470,000-odd members, including the largely overlooked Gen X and Gen Y segments. A major supporter of the Financial Literacy Foundation, which features money guru Paul Clitheroe on the advisory board, QSuper has taken the educational campaign a step further ...

'Tis the season to be philanthropic

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUN 2007
... at the moment to get a better understanding of where giving fits in their business." Finally, the Sydney Community Foundation held the Sydney leg of its seminar series on tax and charitable giving yesterday, with guest speaker, tax consultant Richard ...

Count's biggest losers donate $90k

... Perkovic, and founding managing director, Barry Lambert, spearheaded a get fit campaign to support the Count Charitable Foundation. This year it will distribute more than $600,000 to charities including The Cancer Council, Royal Hospital for Women Foundation ...

CFS feels the rhythm

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 14 MAY 2007
... investors' growing appetite for innovative investment solutions. The copyright catalogue we have acquired is likely to be a foundation asset for a media focused investment fund that First State Media Group expects to launch towards the end of 2007."

Can the cash-fest save our competitiveness?

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAY 2007
Just as well the Federal Government included some infrastructure and education spending in the Budget, but considering the money wont begin to flow until 2009 our global competitiveness ranking is likely to continue to be cut-down. According to the ...

FinLit in schools in 2008

CHRIS NICHOLLS AND ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAY 2007
The Financial Literacy Foundation has scored a major goal with the introduction of an integrated financial literacy program for all school children from years three to nine, beginning in 2008. The program will embed financial literacy programs into ...

Contango targets financial services

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2007
... traditional lending and deposit end of the financial services industry a Contango spokesman said: "Certainly not." The fund's foundation investment will be 49.9 per cent of CGPL, a company that holds all the issued shares of Contango Asset Management. ...

FinLit Foundation launches into workplaces

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 19 MAR 2007
The Financial Literacy Foundation is emerging from behind the scenes and is launching a booklet to help financial literacy in the workplace, stepping up its efforts to work with the tertiary education sector and is even launching dramatic productions ...

ALP would cut financial literacy funding: Dutton

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAR 2007
... hunger for information about managing money in the community, the ALP plan to abolish funding for the Financial Literacy Foundation. This is part of their so called savings drive to meet their own exorbitant spending commitments," Dutton said. "Cutting ...