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AIA launches digital life insurance advice tool

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAR 2017
... funds to better engage with their members. "Our goal is to improve the retirement outcomes and help address the financial literacy of fund members through education," Morrow said. "We enable super funds to engage, and encourage, their members to make ...

ASIC spots forex breaches at ANZ and Westpac

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAR 2017
... financial capability of vulnerable people, including women experiencing family violence, and ANZ's will go to Financial Literacy Australia. Westpac Institutional Bank chief executive Lyn Cobley said: "We continue to enhance our policies and controls ...

Netwealth backing financial literacy in schools

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAR 2017
Leading platform provider netwealth launched a financial literacy campaign this week, looking to bring financial education to the classroom through an interactive tool aligned with existing school curriculums. Banqer, designed by a New Zealand start-up ...

AFA chief executive steps down

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAR 2017
... establishment of Genxt, Inspire, and Leaders Forum Communities of Practice; the Your Best Interests consumer financial literacy campaign; the setting of the Fellow Chartered Financial Practitioner designation (FChFP) at Masters level; AFA's renewed Professional ...

Industry super attacks SMSFs

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 FEB 2017
Industry Super Australia says growth in the SMSF sector is a result of members having low levels of financial literacy. Citing a 2016 working paper from CIFR, ISA chief economist Stephen Anthony said the 5.5% increase in SMSF membership in 2015 was ...

Distrust is super's biggest challenge

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 FEB 2017
... Williams believes if super funds invested more heavily in technology to engage millennial members and provide financial literacy while offering a real-time view of their super balances, trust will grow. SMSF Association chief executive Andrea Slattery ...

UniSuper partners to bridge financial literacy gap

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 27 JAN 2017
In response to a gap in financial literacy highlighted in member surveys, UniSuper recently launched two education initiatives. The $58 billion fund partnered with T. Rowe Price to make its successful US program, Money Confident Kids, available to UniSuper ...

Industry funds blame ATO for super underpayment

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JAN 2017
... required to pay 9.5% of an employee's salary into superannuation accounts. The ATO said in its submissions that financial literacy, irregular employment, and a profound lack of knowledge about superannuation each identified as barriers to active participation ...

Aussie firms join gender index

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 24 JAN 2017
... while 73% require a gender diverse range of candidates for management roles. A further 83% offer or sponsor financial literacy and education programs for women, and 75% have return to work processes in place for female staff. Bloomberg head of strategy ...

AustralianSuper lends muscle to big employers

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 24 JAN 2017
... just in Business Solutions but across the board, including a mobile app with a pension functionality, more financial literacy and mental wellbeing programs this year and a shift to using Net Promoter Scores (NPS) to gauge member experience and engagement ...