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Health and wealth go hand in hand: Survey

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUN 2014
... achieve their fitness goals. Even more so if they are prepping for a big event just around the corner, like a wedding, high school reunion or a milestone birthday. "If they can't see themselves reaching their goals, the concept becomes too abstract and ...

MetLife Australia names new CFO

ALICE URIBE  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUN 2014
... is a graduate of the University of Technology, Sydney and has completed an Executive Development Program at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. In May it was announced that Deanne Stewart, a senior manager at BT Financial Group would join ...

AFA upgrades Female Excellence award with business scholarship

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2014
... 2014 Female Excellence in Advice Award, which this year includes a master class for finalists at the Macquarie Graduate School of Management (MGSM). The award recognises the contributions of women in financial advice to the profession, the community ...

Budget reply speech 2014 -15: Bill Shorten

Budget forces advisers to rethink tax, retirement strategies

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAY 2014
... issues for them will be "the affordability of insurance, falling family tax benefits and if they have kids moving into school or university." Advisers will have to keep an eye on clients born after 1965 and affected by the raise of the Age Pension eligibility ...

Budget speech 2014 -15

... Family Tax Benefit Part B, a payment that will no longer be available when a family's youngest child turns six and is at school. Staying at home should be a parent's choice but there are limits on how much support the taxpayer can give. For Australians ...

PROFILE: Actuaries Institute CEO David Bell

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2014
... college. "It was a tough, all-male, environment," he says. "Either you met the standard or you were out. It wasn't a finishing school for nice blokes." After four years of studying, Bell started out as a junior officer in infantry, then the parachute ...

Treasurer readies electorate for Age Pension cuts

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2014
Treasurer Joe Hockey has given the strongest signal yet that cuts to the Age Pension will headline a raft of belt-tightening measures in the upcoming Budget. In a speech at Sydney's Doltone House yesterday, the Treasurer said that Australia's spending ...

PROFILE: Cbus chief executive David Atkin

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 APR 2014
... idyllic tropical life" is how David Atkin describes his childhood in Papua New Guinea. While his parents taught in a local school, he spent his days "wandering around the forest, being looked after by the locals, exploring every day, having a lot of ...

PROFILE: Bernie Ripoll

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 APR 2014
... he realised that it was not the kind of life that he was looking for. He then chose the other path, went back to night school, did an apprenticeship and became a qualified tradesman. After working as a tradesman for some time, Ripoll was ready for another ...