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Advisers dismiss Medicare-style advice service

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 18 OCT 2013
... adviser who is giving advice to them for their best interest. "I think that all of us as professionals sharing financial literacy, sharing our knowledge, it comes back to you in abundance." No one on the panel seriously explored the idea of a Medicare-style ...

Finance industry integrity called into question

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 12 SEP 2013
... that advisers operate with integrity, only 9% of the segment correspondent to government agencies, media and financial literacy experts believed in the integrity of advisers. Investor and consumers' opinion was between these two. Fund managers also ranked ...

Industry asks for stronger consultation after elections

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 5 AUG 2013
... that compares the economic plans of the major political parties and includes recommendations such as including financial literacy in the school curriculum or lowering the company tax rate. From the superannuation sector, the Association of Superannuation ...

Bank levy upsets senior lobby

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 2 AUG 2013
... lead to them taking money out of the bank and putting it under the bed," he said. This comes in a week when financial literacy among retirees came under the spotlight, with the release of a manual on retirement from the Australian Human Rights Commission ...

FSC to support Indigenous financial literacy

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 1 AUG 2013
... Council (FSC) has formed a long-term partnership alliance with First Nations Foundation (FNF) to help improve the financial literacy of Indigenous Australians. The FSC will be providing a minimum of $50,000 a year for three years funds to the FNF to ...

Financial literacy in retirement a human rights issue: AHRC

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JUL 2013
Financial literacy among retirees has become a human rights issue, with the release of a manual aimed at helping people prepare for retirement by the Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC). The release coincided with a call from National Seniors ...

FPA wants schools to teach financial literacy

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUL 2013
Financial literacy should be taught in schools in order to improve Australian's knowledge of finance issues, the Financial Planning Association (FPA) has proposed. In a submission to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) National ...

MoneySmart list of unlicensed companies approaches 700

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAY 2013
... number of unlicensed companies listed on the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC)'s online financial literacy website, MoneySmart, has grown to 696. China Environment Group Limited (CEG), based in the British Virgin Islands, has become ...

Confusion reigns over financial literacy

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 9 MAY 2013
Despite the focus on financial literacy by regulators, Australian school curriculum designers and financial services firms, there is still no agreed definition of what it is and how to measure it, reveals the Australian Securities and Investment Commission ...

What Stronger Super?

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 26 FEB 2013
... Mercer's Index tested respondents on their understanding of super related terms and concepts, to gauge levels of financial literacy. Less than one in four (22%) correctly answered seven or more, out of ten questions. A similar proportion (19%) answered ...