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Adviser input key to super fund switch: report

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2015
... seeking advice. "Besides cost, the potential reasons for this include a lack of trust in financial advisers, low financial literacy, and lack of availability of scaled advice," Roy Morgan Research industry communications director Norman Morris said. ...

David Koch joins forces with Adviser Ratings

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2015
... consumer confidence in the industry. I am especially excited to be involved in Adviser Ratings' foray into the financial literacy space and educating consumers about how to maximise the benefits of using a financial adviser and investment." Adviser Ratings ...

CSSA guided by new name and code of conduct

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2015
... been enshrined for members who will continue to work to a set of guiding principles including accessibility, financial literacy, efficiency, transparency, affordability and adequacy. Latto said the association's members are focused on bringing financial ...

Nominations open for AFA Adviser of the Year Award

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2015
... advice," he said at the time. In their assessment, judges will look for efforts made by candidates to improve the financial literacy of their clients, prospects, and the community overall. Zurich's general manager of retail life and investments, Philip ...

New initiative to improve women's economic health

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2015
... Association of Australia (FPA) has announced a partnership with not-for-profit 10thousandgirl in a bid to improve the financial literacy and economic health of women in regional areas. The partnership will see the FPA play an integral role in 10thousandgirl's ...

Former AMP chief executive joins Westpac

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2015
... member of the federal government's Financial System Inquiry and is a current board member of the government's Financial Literacy Board and the Australian Ballet. Before joining AMP where he was chief executive between 2008 and 2013, Dunn was chief executive ...

US schools should teach finlit

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAR 2015
... introduce fiduciary standards for advisers, a major association has said a more important step is introducing financial literacy training into school curriculum. The Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) said in a policy briefing ...

FPA asks for tax deductible advice in budget submission

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 12 FEB 2015
... argued that it is important for Australians to understand the benefits of superannuation and have access to financial literacy to maintain consumer protection. "Making financial advice more affordable for consumers supports the Coalition's superannuation ...

Murray's FSI: consumers win round one

ALEX DUNNIN  |  SUNDAY, 7 DEC 2014
... has seen in decades. There is no better way to illustrate this than the nuclear option that "disclosure and financial literacy are not enough" and that financial institutions need higher [moral and ethical] obligations to ensure their consumers are given ...

IOSCO updates FinLit framework

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 NOV 2014
... Commissions (IOSCO) has released its final report outlining its global framework for investor education and financial literacy. In their Strategic Framework for Investor Education and Financial Literacy report, IOSCO said that it has a major role to ...