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Modern kids are consumer savvy: CommBank

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 NOV 2006
... 'debit' and only 25 per cent able to understand the term 'credit' on a bank statement," said the report. But in a sign that modern kids are highly educated and much more financially literate than many adults, 91 per cent could identify the running costs ...

Retiring at 65 unsustainable: Bernard Salt

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 30 OCT 2006
... week," said Salt. Salt said that while these ideas may seem radical, the reality is retirement as we know it today is only modern phenomenon. "As recently as 1928, life expectancy for an Australian worker was only 63 years. But the odd thing is that ...

Keating laments missed super opportunities

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 30 OCT 2006
... starting to catch up, claimed Paul Keating, former Australian Prime Minister. Keating, one of principal architects of the modern Australian superannuation system, speaking on the first day of the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) conference, said ...

Aussies spend $8.7bn on celebrity makeover

... just as much as their female counterparts on clothes, accessories and even on cosmetic enhancements. Lamont said that the modern day cult of celebrity is now so pervasive that young men and women have mounting credit card debts just so they can emulate ...

Don't gamble with personal insurance: AXA

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 21 AUG 2006
... our population is ageing, medical advancements are continuing - particularly when it comes to cancer diagnosis - and the modern Australian workplace is an ever-changing landscape. "The truth is Australians need insurance that evolves and responds to ...

Parl committee to review entire super industry

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUL 2006
... management of superannuation funds." At the headline level it has announced it will investigate the broad structure of the modern superannuation industry, the role of advice, whether regulation and compliance practices are up to date and whether it is ...

Life insurance industry no more

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 30 JUN 2006
... in this business segment actually fell 5 per cent over the last eight years while the amount of assets held in the more modern investment-linked products just about doubled (up 96 per cent). And as life insurance companies have been pushed into modernising ...

Asteron stand alone on TPD and upgrade policy benefits

... many Australians feel insurance is too expensive while they also believe it is not tailored enough around the needs of modern families.

Compliance is a profession: ACI

... designed to provide certainty regarding the professional status of individuals managing and implementing compliance in modern organisations. Mike Lotzof, chief executive of the ACI said "the accreditation is a critical step in the development of the ...

ING takes insurance into 21st century with OneCare

... life insurance into the 21st century. We are living longer but sicker and we need to modernise and accommodate this into [modern] insurance [solutions]." Bedbrook adds enthusiastically that ING has "made a real effort to make something that is adaptive. ...