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Banks sluggish on Indigenous financial inclusion

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAY 2019
Indigenous Australians are being let down by financial institutions' failure to provide access to basic banking services and recognise different cultural attitudes towards money, a new report from the First Nations Foundation reveals. Of the 620 ...

Perpetual wins trustee mandate

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAY 2019
... Perpetual Corporate Trust as its custodian and wholesale trustee. Impact Investment Partners' new fund, called the Indigenous Infrastructure Fund (IIF), is a private wholesale trust aiming to deploy $500 million across 15 to 20 investments in five years. ...

Australians lose record amount to scams

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAY 2019
Older Australians, Indigenous Australians and those with a disability have reported record losses to scams in 2018, including more than $85 million to dodgy investments. Australians in total lost almost half a billion dollars to scams in 2018. However ...

In a nutshell: Federal Budget 2019

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 2 APR 2019
... and technology; $400 million for genomics research; $80 billion on healthcare; $160 million to improve the health of Indigenous Australians; $300 billion for schools; $453 million to pre-school education; and $328 million to women's safety. The Government ...

Christian Super launches reconciliation action plan

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 1 APR 2019
... Torres Strait Islander access to and understanding of superannuation. Christian Super will also engage in the AIST Indigenous Super Roundtable which aims to improve Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander access to super. FS Super profiled Amanda Young ...

New board directors at Future Generation

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAR 2019
... School Council, the Centennial Park and Moore Park Trust, a director at Our Watch and an ambassador for the Australian Indigenous Education Foundation.

Indigenous super access needs improvement

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAR 2019
Two years since AUSTRAC updated its guidance on overcoming identification issues for Indigenous people, there is more work to be done on the superannuation industry front. The Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees chief executive Eva Scheerlinck ...

Up close and personal: Women in financial services

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2019
... financial services. Since 2014, Melbourne-based FNF has been running Big Super Day Out, a one-stop shop that reunites Indigenous people with their super. About 32 super funds take part to connect with members. In 2018, Big Super Day Out found $14.5 million ...

Perpetual announces Fulbright scholar

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 4 MAR 2019
... public ancillary fund. Adam Davids is the director of learning at a non-profit that creates internship opportunities for Indigenous university students. "In his role, Davids supports thousands of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students to obtain ...

Institutional investors call out climate policy

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 FEB 2019
... are reducing costs and working with waste managers and with recyclers to reduce waste emissions. "We are working with indigenous communities in projects such a savannah burning where traditional land care practice is blended with modern environmental ...