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Superannuation, a key nation-building goal: Coonan at ASFA Conference

... education (for which the government has allocated $14 million), flexibility and understanding. "The need to improve financial literacy is critical and has not been ignored," said Senator Coonan. "Already a diverse range of financial literacy programs ...

Cbus launches financial education initiative

... Greg Combet launched the initiative, titled Better life Better retirement - the most recent in a long line of financial literacy and education packages aimed at consumers and members who have limited knowledge of financial issues. The campaign aims to ...

ASIC releases Financial Literacy in Schools paper

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) today released a paper that examines current financial literacy teaching levels in Australian secondary schools and presents options for improving those levels. "In today's world of increasingly ...

FPA, IFSA & NIBA launch "plain English" consumer guides

... NIBA websites. Last week the FPA also launched the FPA Dollarsmart initiative, designed to help teenagers with financial literacy and saving.

FPA launches financial literacy workbook for teenagers

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) today launched a financial literacy workbook for Australian teenagers. The CD-based 100-page workbook - Dollarsmart: a financial toolkit for teenagers - journeys through six important areas of financial knowledge. ...

ASFA calls on government to deliver on $300 million promise

... including greater resources for public education-which has been suggested following the research into consumer financial literacy recently released by ANZ and the results of a consumer comprehension testing project by ASFA. "Increased funding for public ...

ANZ financial literacy survey sparks political catfight

The release of the ANZ survey of adult financial literacy in Australia has re-ignited the political debate over 'choice' of super with both main parties claiming that the survey-which reveals a good deal of ignorance on superannuation-vindicates their ...

ASIC chairman calls for action on nation's financial literacy

In response to today's ANZ survey into national financial literacy levels, Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) chairman David Knott has called for a 'national partnership of stakeholders' to improve financial literacy levels across ...