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Australian Ethical awards $300,000 in grants

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 12 OCT 2015
... goal." One of the recipients is Free To Shine, an Australian charity committed to breaking the cycle of sex trafficking in rural Cambodia. "The $10,000 grant from Australian Ethical will allow us to identify and enrol an additional 33 girls into our ...

Global Financial Inclusion winners announced

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2015
... that teaches children about financial literacy, the Shanghai F-road Commercial Services program that helps banks provide rural China customers with mobile banking services, and the Kiva program that crowdfunds microfinance. "An estimated 1.2 billion ...

Super industry collectively engages indigenous Australia

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2015
... consumers in relation to various financial services issues. The IOP is a national team and undertakes outreach trips to urban, rural and remote Indigenous communities to raise awareness about money matters and to take complaints. They also work with ...

PROFILE: EISS chief executive Alex Hutchison

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2015
... the property trust arena. "That was a pretty good experience, working on a number of major cases. One at the time was the Rural Property Trust collapse where we got a $68 million settlement for the investors. At the time it was the largest settlement ...

Top bankers get together for pro bono venture

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2015
... non-executive director Audette Exel in 1998 and it specialises in providing help for maternal, infant and child health; remote and rural community development; and care, support and reintegration of children at risk. "Adara Partners and the Adara Panel ...

Groups call for default super fund decoupling

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2015
... for consumers, and we welcome the opportunity to compete equally through our extensive branch network and importantly, in rural and regional Australia where access to financial services can be problematic." Latto said employers often negotiate special ...

BGL and CoreLogic launch SMSF property tool

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2015
... integrated a number of CoreLogic RP Data products with its Simple Fund software. These include residential, commercial and rural property valuations and land title searches. "Our clients are continuing to benefit from the automation and integration BGL ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 18 NOV 2014
The Australian market looks set to open higher after Wall Street fluctuated amid concern over Japan slipping back into recession. At 0645 AEST on Tuesday, the December share price index futures contract was up 11 points at 5,437. In local economic news ...

Hawks Nest is Australia's oldest town

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2014
... Bowral with 31% in the Southern NSW Highlands, reflects a preference among many older Australians to retire to coastal and rural parts of the State." The tilt to older people living in regional towns, as especially coastal towns, in NSW is further highlighted ...

"Pleasant" but...

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 SEP 2014
... exports dropping by 0.8% on the quarter. Go back to the National Accounts and you'll see that the bulk of an 8.9% drop in rural exports accounted for much of fall in the overall figure. Non-rural exports up 1.1% (ties in with the 'voluntary' stockpiling ...