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Regulator warns on rev mortgages

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUN 2009
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) and Paul Clitheroe's financial literacy team launched an information guide on reverse mortgages, warning consumers about the possible pitfalls. Thinking of using the equity in your home? A ...

Indigenous Australians get fin lit boost

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 9 DEC 2008
... traveling around the northern regions of Australia this week along with Australian Financial Literacy Board chairman Paul Clitheroe and ASIC commissioner Jeremy Cooper to better understand the specific financial literacy needs of Indigenous communities. ...

Clitheroe and Kelty honoured

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUN 2008
Financial services stalwarts Bill Kelty and Paul Clitheroe were recognised in this year's Queen's Birthday Honours List for their contributions to the finance industry. Former trade union leader Bill Kelty was awarded the Companion of the Order of Australia ...

Women-friendly finance tips launched

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2008
... budgeting, investment choices, boosting their superannuation and how to manage money should their partner die. Paul Clitheroe, Financial Literacy Foundation advisory board chairman, said women had more financial options than ever before. "Women are often ...

Australians at ease with debt

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 OCT 2007
... to purchase items they could not afford and 17 per cent stated they only paid the minimal amount on that debt. Paul Clitheroe, chairman of the Financial Literacy Foundation, said to use debt wisely it needed to be understood and affordable. "Shop around ...

QSuper champions fin literacy

... overlooked Gen X and Gen Y segments. A major supporter of the Financial Literacy Foundation, which features money guru Paul Clitheroe on the advisory board, QSuper has taken the educational campaign a step further when it created the new role of Financial ...

FinLit in schools in 2008

CHRIS NICHOLLS AND ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAY 2007
... penetration into English as well, as one of the key problems with financial literacy was, according to chairman Paul Clitheroe, that people in the financial sector "speak a different language". Will Morony, executive officer of the Australian Association ...

Top fund communications win 2006 ASFA Awards

... the standards are," said Smith. Held at Star City in Sydney last night, the event was hosted by investment guru Paul Clitheroe who highlighted the importance of communicating super and money management in a way that ordinary Australians could understand. ...

Fin literacy won't happen overnight, but it will happen: Clitheroe

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 11 APR 2006
Paul Clitheroe, chair of the Financial Literacy Task Force, believes improving financial literacy is a 20 year project. Being a long term project, he said, it starts in the home, should be taught in schools and, above all, needs to be demonstrated through ...

Advisers should provide advice for philanthropy too

... Private philanthropic funds (PPF) or bequests are both ideal channels, Gonski said, citing that financial guru Paul Clitheroe has his own PPF, which donated equipment to a children's hospital. Meanwhile fellow speaker Peter Cosgrove, retired former Chief ...