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More info on super, please

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2009
... CSRF newsletter context was "easy to understand" the fund acknowledged that more could be done to explain super in plain English. "We still have some work to do to reduce the amount of super jargon and technical terminology we use - we promise to use ...

Plain English works best: Suncorp

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2009
... campaign gets a big leg-up from Suncorp after it decided not just to simplify its member letters but also to instill a "plain English" culture internally - starting with a 'style guide' that staff can refer to when talking to or emailing clients. The ...

Qld planner named Telstra Business Woman finalist

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 2 DEC 2008
... its independent financial planning licence through ASIC in a record three days. She is also currently writing a plain English book about superannuation for novice investors. "With the hard times in the share market at the moment, we're refining our client ...

Introducing the Burnie Pub PDS

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUL 2008
The government moves to scrap Latin-like, 100-page product disclosure statements (PDSs) in favour of plain English four-page forms by creating a template to prove it can be done. Today Senator Nick Sherry, Minister for Superannuation and Corporate Law ...

From PDS doorstoppers to digests

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2008
... employer superannuation head of product and marketing, said the reduced PDS was designed to present the information in "plain English". According to Peter Promnitz, Mercer chief executive, firms that reduced their PDS are better able to communicate key ...

Automate at ILOG speed

... when needed without having to call a programmer because, in layman speak, ILOG software can set up the rules in plain English, rather than in IT language. For example, Haren cites the case of a stockbroker who customised his ILOG software to the individual ...

ING revamps corporate and SME super

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2007
... investment options. "We've tried to reduce all the legal speak and focussed on presenting all the information in plain English," Mark Pankhurst, head of product and marketing in ING employer superannuation, said. New members will receive a phonecall ...

Industry funds publish pocket super guide

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUN 2007
... queries. The 50 crucial answers you need publication aims to provide simple answers to superannuation issues in plain English, without jargon and in an accessible format. Penned by long-time journalist Anne Lampe, the guide is available for just $2.95 ...

Super benefits buried under gobbledygook

... director of Communi(k), a communications consultancy firm currently working with Sunsuper, REST and STA to provide 'plain English' education to their super members.

AXA launches pay-as-you-go adviser software

... designed to help their network of planners engage consumers. The group has rewritten their Statement of Advice into 'plain English' and modified their SOA generation tool so planners can cut the length of their SOAs by as much as 50 per cent, a salute ...