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La Trobe gains new ground on aged care

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 12 JAN 2017
... challenge is the lack of basic competency requirements in Australia for aged care specialists. Mid last year, senior Australians and financial planners have called on ASIC to start specifically regulating the area of aged care financial advice in order ...

FPA educating future planning generation

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JAN 2017
... which are practicing financial planners. But the FPA won't be resting on its laurels. "We can't increase the number of Australians getting financial advice if we don't have more advisers. We're going to lose members through natural attrition and also ...

Offline Australian retail sales

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JAN 2017
... for sure. This slowed the annual growth rate in retail spending to 3.3% from 3.5% in October. But I wonder whether Australians' increasing take-up of online shopping is skewing the Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) traditional retail sales estimate. ...

Spending and debt, Australia's biggest test

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 10 JAN 2017
Concern about the national economy is driving a lack of confidence in Australians' ability to achieve greater financial outcomes in 2017. According to new research commissioned by St. George, about 70% of Australians are worried about their finances ...

Severe inadequacies in retiree portfolios: VicSuper

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 9 JAN 2017
... retirement lifestyles and a lack of awareness regarding ideal drawdown rates. Citing an HSBC report, VicSuper said 45% of Australians expect their social lives to improve in retirement, and 50% are drawing down more than the minimum amount each year ...

Climate calling

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 9 JAN 2017
... there's still quite a different way of approaching sustainable investing between the Americans, the Europeans and Australians," Cheang says. Ultimately, super funds and other instos have to be clear on what they are trying to accomplish. "If you're trying ...

Will 2017 be a mirror image of 2016?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 JAN 2017
... there's China too, which itself, is currently trying to contain capital outflows and currency depreciation. For us, Australians all, we'll either be caught in the crossfire or rejoice with the rising tide that lifts all boats. Here's to prosperous New ...

Rejected TPD claims deemed fair

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 6 JAN 2017
... outcomes using common definitions and data to help restore consumer confidence in an essential financial product for many Australians." BTFG was under the microscope in October last year for its denial of 37% of all TPD claims received in 2015. At the ...

Advisers must be tribal: Stackpool

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 5 JAN 2017
... advisers must do more to help combat it. Certainty Advice Group managing director and founder Jim Stackpool believes Australians are suffering with growing insecurities around their finances and advisers must adopt a tribe mentality in order to achieve ...

Westpac provides head start to wealth management

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 3 JAN 2017
... Westpac to mark the beginning of our bicentennial year in the best way possible - by investing in the next generation of Australians and inspiring good savings habits with the potential to have a lifelong impact," Frazis said. The recent Westpac Financial ...