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Comm Foundation partners with teachers on FinLit

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 30 AUG 2007
... been asking for more professional development as they get ready to implement the curriculum units into already jam-packed school programs. "Financial institutions should definitely be doing more about teaching financial literacy at the time and place ...

AFS launches business school

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 AUG 2007
The Australian Financial Planners Services Group (AFS) has announced plans to open a business school allowing financial planners to grow their skills in running their operations. Beginning in October, the school will offer no financial planning strategy ...

Start saving for education early: Lifeplan

... average suburban home, Lifeplan Funds Management has launched an education savings fund designed to help parents avoid future school expenses headaches. The group's Lifeplan Education Investment Fund is a tax-effective product offered to financial planners ...

Finsia appoints interim CEO

... 18 months on top of his non-executive interests, particularly in education, with responsibilities as treasurer of Ascham School and the University of Sydney's Women's College. During his appointment, Harrison will carry the business in the short term ...

Economic round-up: Manufacturing out run by fitness

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 19 JUN 2007
... forecasting a meagre 2.1 annual employment growth. While our unemployment rate sits at 4.2 per cent, according to DEWR, school leavers completing only year 10 face more than double that unemployment rate at 8.6 per cent while year 12 graduates only face ...

Can the cash-fest save our competitiveness?

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAY 2007
... economic infrastructure in particular is performing shamefully against most other areas of the economy. The Swiss business school IMD in conjunction with CEDA and other international partners compiles the World Competitiveness Yearbook each year, which ...

Centric rolls out mat for expats

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2007
Centric Wealth has opened an Expatriate Services division aimed specifically at Australians living abroad, those heading overseas or those returning home. Centric Wealth adviser, David Suthons, said the expatriates market was large, with over one million ...

FinLit in schools in 2008

CHRIS NICHOLLS AND ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAY 2007
... Financial Literacy Foundation has scored a major goal with the introduction of an integrated financial literacy program for all school children from years three to nine, beginning in 2008. The program will embed financial literacy programs into existing ...

FinLit programs damaging schools

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 23 APR 2007
Teaching financial literacy in primary schools simply adds clutter to an already overcrowded curriculum, said Leonie Trimper, president of the Australian Primary Principals Association (APPA). Citing examples of US schools being forced to cancel morning ...

BT gets Oarsome and rows ahead of fleet

... assumed the role as BT's brand ambassador. "I was always interested in the finance. I did the economics stream in high school and did Bachelor of Business at RMIT," he said. Tomkins has been in the industry for over 14 years and worked at ABN Amro prior ...