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AFS school boosts revenues by 27 pc

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAR 2009
Australian Financial Services (AFS) Business School graduates recorded a 27 per cent growth in revenues on average six months after they returned to the office. Peter Daly, AFS Group chief executive, said the Business School exceeded all the firm's ...

UK firm launches planner competition

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2009
... soon to be re-branded Aviva, launched The Future Adviser Programme with the Manchester Metropolitan University Business School and the Institute of Financial Planning last month. The programme aims to provide undergraduates with hands-on experience of ...

Pay to perform

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2009
... been lost," said Dr Sam Kovacevic, an expert on executive remuneration from Organisation and Management at the Australian School of Business. Kovacevic said the changes are well overdue and will not - contrary to popular view - drive talent away from ...

NGS Super targets female fin lit

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2009
... heads to action style clips designed to engage members and communicate more effectively." The $2.5 billion non-government school staff super fund website features a salary sacrifice calculator, detailed insurance costs and information on different investment ...

Stanford slashes costs to save endowment

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2009
The $27 billion Stanford University endowment fund has slashed and frozen salaries, trimmed staff numbers and tightened its budget as its portfolio shrinks by 25 per cent. In a recent media statement, Stanford said it planned to cut close to $156 million ...

AMPFP turn to IT to boost productivity

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2009
... you develop documentation catered for those events." AMPFP boasts 650 practices and 1,300 planners. It opened a planning school two years ago, the Horizon Financial Planning Academy, which offers a six-week training in Sydney, a two-week internship at ...

CSRF supports Catholic Schools Week

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2009
... Cantor, chief executive of CSRF. "The majority of our members are teachers and it's important that over time, especially high school students, that everyone gets exposed to elements of financial literacy," he said. In addition to monetary support, the ...

Back to school for Sunsuper

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 26 FEB 2009
Sunsuper has unveiled a new online money and super school that features a suite of interactive audio modules about investment and superannuation issues. The online school covers topics such as good debt, bad debt, investing in property to more complicated ...

QSuper appoints investment committee

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 FEB 2009
... services as well as overseeing QSuper's investment strategy. Drew is currently a professor of finance at the Griffith Business School, Griffith University. "We are going to become a regulated super fund. The Trustees wanted to put more emphasis on investment ...

Africa wants slice of bail-out

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 FEB 2009
... region. The Fund would also help humanitarian programs, provide microfinance loans and continue current health, education and school feeding projects, she said. Ezekwesili has also urged African governments to push through with its ongoing public sector ...