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FinLit boosts productivity while educating kids

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 29 APR 2008
Promoting financial literacy is not only for educating children about money, it's also about securing our industry's future, said Joan Fitzpatrick, chief executive of the Australia and New Zealand Institute of Insurance and Finance (ANZIIF). "We are ...

Tasplan uses ant mascot as Gen Y magnet

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 21 APR 2008
... snags the leading role in what Tasplan claims is the first animated superannuation website aimed at boosting financial literacy among its Gen Y members. According to Neil Cassidy, general manager of Tasplan, Superant will play a tactical role in demolishing ...

FinLit goes global

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2008
The world is catching the financial literacy bug with the launch of new programs now targeting the impoverished in the third world. Last month the Aflatoun global Campaign for Child Social and Financial Education was launched in Amsterdam by Princess ...

Women-friendly finance tips launched

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2008
A federal government survey found women are more interested in financial literacy than men, prompting the government to develop an education series tailored to their specific needs. The Financial Literacy - Women understanding money survey found 70 ...

Centrelink lends hand on fin literacy

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 12 FEB 2008
Centrelink has tweaked its financial literacy program to reflect new changes to superannuation and tax rules. While many finance institutions have joined the financial literacy trail only in the past few years, Centrelink has been providing free financial ...

Super gender gap narrows

... incentivises the higher income spouse to put money into their partner's super and partnering with the government on financial literacy initiatives. "The Australian government, through their financial literacy unit, has started producing fact sheets for ...

Govt urges auto-rolling of $9.7bn lost super

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JAN 2008
... it may also lessen the number of increasing unclaimed super accounts. "The Government really needs a major financial literacy program to accompany the 'auto roll' and to tackle the lost and unclaimed super problem once and for all," said Fawcett. The ...

The lighter side of super: HESTA

Laughter is not only the best medicine, it can also be a handy educational tool judging from a new financial literacy initiative of HESTA Super. HESTA has signed up comedian Fiona O'Loughlin, who is a regular Spicks and Specks panelist, to feature in ...

Product-based fees create conflict

... qualifications, the broadening of a pro bono culture among financial planners and the enhancement of consumer financial literacy within an evolving industry," he added. The paper also suggested that adopting a genuine, non-product-based fee-for-service ...

Rising Star calls for home loan tax relief

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  THURSDAY, 22 NOV 2007
... campaign, Browne held out hope. He referred to a speaker at an ING function who talked about their push for financial literacy, who said they had flagged ideas years and years ago and only after continual pushing did it eventually happen. "In my opinion ...