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La Trobe Financial Standard Philanthropy Awards judging panel announced

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 DEC 2015
... impact of donations in eight categories: Health, Medical Research, Humanitarian, Environment, Education, Arts and Culture, Children and Youth and Corporate Social Responsibility. Gearing has over 35 years' experience in superannuation, funds management ...

Bombora appoints chairman

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 1 DEC 2015
... company Alto Nominees, the executive director of RYCO Group and the non-executive director of Agrocel Industries and the Children's Cancer Foundation. He has also held senior executive positions with Linfox Group, was a non-executive director Excel Crop ...

Paying super on parental leave could help gender gap: Mercer

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 5 NOV 2015
... on parental leave," Adams said. The report shows the current average time out of the workforce for a woman caring for children is five years. Based on median earnings this could reduce superannuation at retirement by $80,000, according to Mercer. Mercer ...

Six point five is PM Li's new like

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 OCT 2015
... communique following its fifth plenum, central command announced that it is ditching its one-child policy - it'll be two children henceforth. More births, more babies to buy diapers and milks and what-nots for, more consumption and in time, a larger ...

The power of saying no to difficult advice clients

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 OCT 2015
... inheritance," she said. While Sam wanted to keep his investment property, she continued, Ange wanted to sell it to ensure their children had a private school education. He was opposed to the idea, having gone to a public school. "If I had had that meeting ...

The social benefits of advice

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 OCT 2015
... Advisers National Adviser Conference in Cairns, Lombardo related how he'd run a workshop with parents of primary school-age children about their financial situations, and encountered a mother whose partner had committed suicide due to financial hardship. ...

AXA IM to launch impact fund in Australia

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 27 OCT 2015
... not have access to traditional sources of financing. "We track what the loan is for: for a business, for education and children. If the funds are giving loans to families for education, we want them to have a criteria that says, for example, that the ...

Australians don't want government to step in on super: research

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 26 OCT 2015
... Australians aged 50 or over and it presented many other telling numbers. Seventy-two per cent of respondents with adult children are planning to help them financially, primarily by drawing down from their superannuation balances on retirement. Of the ...

FEATURE: Reshaping insurance

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2015
... down further, Rice Warner estimated the amount of cover needed for a typical middle-income Australian family with two children to be $680,000 - $480,000 more than the average default cover provides. Which means that, for many Australian families, group ...

Findex firm sets up family office division

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2015
... wealthy families," he added. "Now that Prescott Securities is part of the larger Findex group, all our clients and their children will benefit from the option." Caire confirmed that the additional services "will be available at a significantly more attractive ...