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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 ...

Seniors vote against Westpoint

... Vote 2007' program, the National Seniors Association (NSA) is demanding a three point plan, including more financial literacy initiatives, to prevent senior investors from losing their money on high risk debentures such as Westpoint, Australian Capital ...

Super veterans accept Industry Service Awards

... Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA), which represents the market's fastest growing sub-sector. Advocating financial literacy, Colley has co-authored a number of books and publications on superannuation and has been involved in writing material ...

Vanguard arms investors with Plain Talk

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 OCT 2007
Index manager Vanguard joins the growing list of investment companies championing investor financial literacy when it launched a line of educational materials based on their popular Plain Talk Guide format. The guides cover seven different topics including ...

Australians at ease with debt

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 OCT 2007
... could be affecting investor perceptions with one in three exceeding their debt capacity. A Federal Government Financial Literacy Foundation report, Financial literacy: Australians understanding money, found 79 per cent of respondents said they were comfortable ...