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Daily Economic Round Up

PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 10 NOV 2006
... year 10 were not involved with work or study by the following May although of those that finished the last year of high school that number was reduced to about 20 per cent. A sobering though is that although there have been about 271,000 jobs added to ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 30 OCT 2006
... Bob Birrell of the Monash University Centre for Population and Urban Research highlights the fact that about half of the school leavers from last year did not seek any post school training or university education. The report says that the failure of ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 12 OCT 2006
The possibility of an interest rate rise at the next meeting of the RBA increased last night when the governor, Dr Glenn Stevens, mentioned that the September quarter CPI figure due on 25 October would be a linch pin in the decision. Dr Stevens said ...

Costello puts super and savings in the hands of kids

KATE HAGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 SEP 2006
School children can now look forward to spending, saving, constructing houses and earning their own brand of currency called "mutual" by doing environmentally friendly activities in their school hours, according to Treasurer Peter Costello. In a radio ...

Move over FinLit, CrickLit is on its way

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 25 SEP 2006
The Financial Literacy Foundation's campaign to win the hearts and minds of Australian school children is set for major competition with Cricket Australia launching its own integrated educational kit that at first glance seems more developed. Cricket ...

DFA funds "holy grail" research on Aussie equities

... (DFA) has funded an Australian-based research to find the "holy grail" model of evaluating Australian equities. UQ Business School's head Professor Tim Brailsford, Monash University's Professor Robert Faff and their team of about 80 researchers are working ...

Age and marriage trigger retirement planning: AXA

... they hit 40 or when they get married. Investment and financial planning group AXA partnered up with the Macquarie Graduate School of Management (MGSM) to find out what motivates people to start saving for their retirement. Under the study, researchers ...

Plum puts increased super savings on auto-pilot

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 25 AUG 2006
... Professor Shlomo Benartzi, Associate Professor and co-chair of the Behavioural Decision-Making Group at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, said the concept had taken off overseas and was a much needed addition to the Australian market. He said it ...

FinLit Foundation goes back to school

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 15 AUG 2006
... consultations will be used by the Foundation, state and federal departments of education, and Catholic and independent school systems to begin the planning process for a national approach to professional development." A series of financial literacy pilot ...

FinLit website goes live

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUL 2006
... covers. But a major focus the Foundation is investing considerable resources into is integrating financial education into school, technical college and even apprenticeship programs, with the Master Builders Association already piloting a range of schemes. ...