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FPA calls for improved education on advice

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2012
... being addressed by other nations such as Thailand where they have made sure financial planning and education is on the school curriculum." Rantall said he thinks it's important and that we need to get to that stage, adding that financial planners also ...

HIP Super members get access to Best Doctors

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAR 2012
... was only possible because of its small size. MLC's Best Doctors is an exclusive service run out of the Harvard Medical School that allows members to contact panels of the world's best doctors to re-examine their case notes, introduce them to local experts ...

Where now brown cow?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAR 2012
... phases of the crisis." And then there's Mr. Willem Buiter - Citigroup chief economist, economics professor at the London School of Economics and ex-Bank of England monetary policy committee member - proclaiming that Spain "is now at greater risk of sovereign ...

Gonski appointed new chair of Future Fund

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAR 2012
... Board well for the opportunities and challenges ahead," said Treasury. Gonski, whose government commissioned review of school funding across Australia was recently released, is also the chair of Investec Bank Australia, Coca-Cola Amatil and Ingeus Ltd ...

Social infrastructure not suited to pension funds: study

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAR 2012
Pension funds should avoid investing in social infrastructure because of its inherent political risk and its small illiquid asset pool, according to a just released study by the UK EDHEC Risk Institute. In their report entitled "Pension Fund Investment ...

HESTA members get insurance boost

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAR 2012
... birth or adoption, reaching a milestone birthday such as 25, 30, 40 or 50, divorce, a child starting primary or secondary school, getting a degree, death of a spouse, salary hike, taking out a mortgage or moving into full-time from part-time work. "Removing ...

Conflict of interest still key issue: ASIC shadow shop

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  TUESDAY, 21 FEB 2012
... while" according to John Price, ASIC senior executive leader, strategy and policy. Speaking at yesterday's ASIC summer school discussion on the impact of FOFA, Price referenced the 2006 shadow shop survey on super advice, which revealed shoddy advice ...

Superannuation needs more regulatory resilience: ASIC

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 20 FEB 2012
... growing the resilience of the Australian regulatory perimeter by Greg Medcraft, chairman of ASIC. Speaking at the ASIC Summer School in Sydney this morning, Medcraft said that the shift in savings from the banking sector to superannuation would result ...

Enough of Greece

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 FEB 2012
... that the Greeks are up in arms. Two days ago, they were on the streets again, and walking out again, resulting in bank and school closures, disruptions to public transportation and minimum hospital services. But while there's an air of caution in the ...

Eyes turn to monetary policy

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 2 FEB 2012
... economist for Principal Global Investors, Tim Harcourt, chief economist of Australian Global Economics at the UNSW Australian School of Business, Clifford Bennett, chief economist at White Crane Group, and Saul Eslake, chief economist at Bank of America ...