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JANA to manage $465 million transition for ASG

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 24 JUL 2006
Jana Investment Advisers has been appointed by the Australian Scholarships Group (ASG) to advise on transitioning $465 million of funds from fixed interest investments to a balanced fund allocation. The appointment of JANA is a key part of ASG's strategic ...

Super changes to cripple self-employed in retirement

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 13 JUL 2006
... this demographic had made a deliberate decision to channel any extra income into reducing the mortgage or funding private school fees during their 40s and 50s. Part of their calculations, according to Murden, was a plan to significantly bump up their ...

Time for another Wallis Inquiry

... Wallis Inquiry. Professor Ian Harper, executive director of the Centre for Business and Public Policy at Melbourne Business School, noted the major consolidations that have happened overseas in recent years. By contrast, current government regulation ...

Citibank's Agent Penny: licensed to teach

... country's first ever financial education comic book heroine launched to promote money skills and finance values among primary school students (10-12 year olds). "One reason Malaysia, along with many other Asian countries, has done well economically over ...

SnowyHydro snow job?

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 22 MAY 2006
Pre-registrations for the anticipated $3 billion SnowyHydro initial public offering may be open today but resistance to the sale shows no signs of watering down. SnowyHydro is the NSW and Victorian irrigation and hydro electric power scheme that channels ...

Associations need to raise standards themselves: Pearce

KATE HAGE  |  TUESDAY, 16 MAY 2006
... Pearce said the Government's Financial Literacy Foundation will start a mass campaign this year, including bringing it into school curriculums. "I have a young son, and it makes me feel a sense of security knowing that his school curriculum is likely ...

Fin literacy won't happen overnight, but it will happen: Clitheroe

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 11 APR 2006
... the Financial Literacy Task Force. One of its early successes has been having financial literacy introduced to Australian school curriculums. "I'm delighted to say that every child in years three, five, seven and nine now have as part of their maths ...

Regulatory reform next on the agenda: Treasury

... all stakeholders. " Pearce added that, "The Foundation is tackling the issue at the grassroots by giving all Australian school children access to financial literacy education in their compulsory years at school." Pearce said the first raft of refinements ...

Count to include equity release on approved list

Financial planning group Count Financial will include equity release products on their approved list, aimed at the growing number of retirees nicknamed the MERLOTs and SKI-ers. Retirees of the 'More Equity Release - Lots more' (MERLOTs) and 'Spending ...

Talk to us and let's make FSR simpler: Chris Pearce

... and promising to cut back the regulatory "red tape" in financial services. Speaking at an ASIC regulation focused summer school, Pearce said setting down "new rules and regulations" was not the answer to a better system, but working within the exisiting ...