Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 421 - 430 of 814 results for "School"

IOOF division launches philanthropy services

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 10 DEC 2015
... structures that will benefit their clients. The firm has also assisted Queensland University of Technology (QUT) Business School to research the issue and is working with other partners to develop a specialised education program to help advisers integrate ...

AFA recommends SG monthly threshold removal

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 DEC 2015
... leave scheme. Finally, the submission recommended "convenient access to affordable, quality child care including out of school hours care" and an education program to address super-related financial literacy for "women in specific segments of greatest ...

The GFC is still among us: Varoufakis

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 DEC 2015
... Sydney and argued that economic unrest in China is a sign that "the GFC is still with us." Speaking at a Macquarie Graduate School of Management event in Sydney, Varoufakis said that the economic mechanism that had worked for decades before 2008 was ...

Industry funds may set up master trust

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 30 NOV 2015
Industry superannuation funds NGS Super and QIEC Super have flagged integrating their investments and insurance under a master trust structure. The boards of both super funds have entered a memorandum of understanding that will investigate the master ...

Pick a number

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 NOV 2015
The nation stops today - Melbourne Cup Day and RBA decision day. I don't know which bet's an easier pick, choosing the winning horse where there are equines a-plenty to bet on or the RBA's decision on interest rates where it's practically a coin-flip. ...

The power of saying no to difficult advice clients

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 OCT 2015
... 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 today, there is no way I ...

The social benefits of advice

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 OCT 2015
... Financial 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 ...

NAB planner wins AFA Female Excellence Award

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 27 OCT 2015
... Walker typifies the best qualities of the advice community." Walker will receive a full scholarship from Macquarie Graduate School of Management (MGSM) (valued at $10,000) to complete an Executive Education Leadership Development Program.

AXA IM to launch impact fund in Australia

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 27 OCT 2015
... for education, we want them to have a criteria that says, for example, that the loan going to a girl that will stay at school through high school." Christensen said that there is also scope for allocating to impact investing strategies in Australia. ...

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

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 26 OCT 2015
... to help their children - organising to leave a significant inheritance (36%) topped the list, followed by helping to pay school fees for their grandchildren (29%), helping their children afford a holiday (27%) and helping their children pay for a deposit ...