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Feature: Group insurance | Cold comfort

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2025
... expenses. "... inability to pay funeral expenses or manage household bills such as mortgage repayment, children's school fees, other personal expenses," Au adds. "Prolonged uncertainty compounds grief; emotional hardship and distress stems from unclear ...

Director pleads guilty to 'dishonestly' obtaining near $1m

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 17 SEP 2024
... trades. McCabe also misappropriated the investors' funds for his own benefits, including rental payments, private school fees and various credit card purchases. The Roseville-based director was charged with eight counts of dishonestly obtaining a financial ...

Investors flock to conservative ETFs: Podcast

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAY 2023
... the capacity to invest at the moment," he said. "They might have paid off their mortgages already or their private school fees have all come to an end, whereas the younger families are the ones that are investing a bit less." The investment shifts are ...

Super industry to branch out: Rice Warner

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 DEC 2020
... investment capacity to provide access to investments (outside superannuation) for medium term savings such as providing for school fees or home deposits," Rice Warner said. "The funds will invest more outside Australia. Within Australia, there will be ...

Bank of Mum and Dad forking out serious dosh

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 14 JAN 2020
... them, whether that be helping them pay down home loan debt, assisting in buying a family car, holidays away or the school fees. This gives our Baby Boomer clients tremendous satisfaction to see their wealth put towards something so available to them ...

Super sector to dominate by 2034

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 16 DEC 2019
... investment capacity to provide access to investments (outside superannuation) for medium term savings such as providing for school fees or home deposits," Rice Warner said. It predicts a decline in the retirement segment from 31.5% of all assets to slightly ...

Adviser stole $200k from SMSFs

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 6 AUG 2019
... clients' SMSF accounts to the tune of $204,000. He used the loans to stave off bankruptcy, pay his children's private school fees and gamble. ASIC said the worst of the offences happened between April 2012 and September 2018. At the time, Michael was ...

Soaring education costs require financial plan: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 16 JAN 2018
... decision by any means. The Australian Scholarships Group (ASG) Planning for Education Index shows the rising costs of school fees, which skyrocketed 61% in the last decade, have dwarfed wage growth of 34%. Sydney parents can spend more than $547,414 ...

Robo-advice raises alarm: ARRIA

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 30 OCT 2017
... domestic robo-advisers to the test by giving each the same simplistic target: to pay her young children's private school fees. Every robo asked for a country of origin; only one asked for a tax bracket - but what was "scary" was that not one asked if ...

Advice rated excellent: MLC survey

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 10 APR 2017
... over the past two years; 90% have not received advice on financing their children's education despite fast-rising school fees and expenses. When asked about their wealth satisfaction level on a scale out of 10, respondents on average rated income at ...
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