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Russell reinforces retirement services

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 MAY 2006
... security possible." Elkins is a current member of the Investment and Financial Services Associations Improving Financial Literacy Committee as well as serving on the independent advisory board of the Australian Government's Financial Literacy Foundation. ...

Associations need to raise standards themselves: Pearce

KATE HAGE  |  TUESDAY, 16 MAY 2006
... good job and that its member are not wishing to be called bad apples!" he said. Pearce said the Government's Financial Literacy Foundation will start a mass campaign this year, including bringing it into school curriculums. "I have a young son, and it ...

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 ...

Regulatory reform next on the agenda: Treasury

... investor education was the most important tool available to the industry and government, particularly through the Financial Literacy Foundation. "In my view, increased understanding through more education is the way ahead. This is not an easy, quick ...

ANZ steps forward with MoneyMinded

ANZ is stepping up its campaign to help improve the financial literacy of low income earners through the launch of its MoneyMinded online education tool. The group has collaborated with ASIC, the NSW Department of Education and Training and finance ...

Macquarie launches indigenous financial services

Macquarie Bank has set up a financial services arm that will provide advice and financial literacy programs for indigenous communities. Tom Hornibrook, head of Macquarie Indigenous Financial Services, said indigenous communities tended to receive poor ...

CARE for interactive education

CARE Super joins a growing list of super funds eager to raise financial literacy when it launched an interactive online e-seminar service on superannuation today. The educational tool is available through the fund's website and developed after the group's ...

MBA apprentices to learn financial literacy

Apprentice builders will be taught financial skills under the umbrella of the Financial Literacy Foundation. Mal Brough, Assistant Treasurer, said the Foundation and the MBA have a deal that will see a pilot program targeting 200 apprentices, sub-contractors ...

Consumers not dumb, just confused about WM industry: ACA

The Australian Consumers' Association (ACA) says the release of the 2005 ANZ Financial Literacy Research and the Study of Consumers in Financial Difficulty confirms consumers are not dumb. Peter Kell, ACA Chief Executive Officer said he commended the ...

Australia exports financial literacy

Australia's Financial Literacy Program has become an exporter with Korea eyeing the program to help curb out-of-control Korean credit card debts. Personal bankruptcy and overuse of credit cards has long been a social problem in Korea. But educators ...