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CBA reinforces gender equality through financial education

KERRIE SYDEE  |  MONDAY, 24 OCT 2016
... CBA has implemented all eight recommendations, making it the first financial institution to apply Our Watch's 'Change the story' framework to prevent violence against women to its financial education program. The recommendations include: Discuss women ...

CBA uses virtual reality to revitalise financial education

KERRIE SYDEE  |  TUESDAY, 11 OCT 2016
... students at participating schools will undertake a Start Smart lesson in their classrooms and will then be given an educational story book and virtual reality headset to take home, allowing them to review key money concepts from their lesson with parents ...

Super and innovation: a glass half full

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 10 OCT 2016
... been the problem to date. There's been few gateways in at the small end of venture capital and in this whole innovation story for super because of cheque size and lack of funds management skills," Ferris said. "That's changing pretty fast and that's ...

Erin Truscott named AFA Rising Star

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 6 OCT 2016
... finalists Peter Hodgson from ANZ Financial Planning; Cathryn Gross from The Wealth Network; AMP Financial Planning's Brent Story; Synchron's Maritza Kriel; and Gregory Adam Bloom from Yellow Brick Road. In making the announcement AFA chief executive ...

Valuation dispersion creating opportunity for instos to retilt

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 27 SEP 2016
... and now any lift in global demand for energy will see share prices improve significantly. He adds that there is a similar story in the banking sector, particularly in the US. "Large US banks have done remarkably well to adjust and have mostly recovered ...

AFA Rising Star finalists announced

KERRIE SYDEE  |  TUESDAY, 27 SEP 2016
... Rising Star of the Year Award finalists are: Peter Hodgson - ANZ Financial Planning Cathryn Gross - The Wealth Network Brent Story - AMP Financial Planning Maritza Kriel - Synchron Gregory Adam Bloom - Yellow Brick Road Erin Truscott - Financial Wisdom ...

CFS sets focus on financial literacy with Wealth IQ

KERRIE SYDEE  |  MONDAY, 19 SEP 2016
... investment concepts to their clients, allowing advisers to build trust and add value to their clients. "The tool is in a story format, easy to engage with and is available for tablet, online and mobile," said CFS head of retail sales, Laird Abernethy. ...

Super investment poorly communicated

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 5 SEP 2016
... chief executive Tom Garcia believes the super industry has done "an extraordinarily bad job" of communicating its investment story to wider Australia. Opening the 2016 Australian Superannuation Investment (ASI) conference in Cairns today, Garcia said ...

Low rates signify opportunity for reinvesting

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 2 SEP 2016
... exported to China for consumption are over. "Australia is in transition. Post-2008 Australia had a really positive economic story - one of the rare ones compared to the rest of the globe - but China's consumption continues to lower and iron ore prices ...

Future Fund ahead of target on tenth birthday

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 1 SEP 2016
The Future Fund has celebrated its tenth anniversary by passing a significant funds under management milestone after achieving ahead of target performance numbers. At 30 June the flagship Future Fund reached $122.8 billion in funds under management ...