One super fund’s efforts to properly serve remote Indigenous customers sparked a national change – which has helped women fleeing domestic violence and those who’ve lost everything in a flood or fire.
Getting good advice can pay for itself many times over. But how do you find it? And what questions should you ask before signing up with a financial adviser?
On Friday the government will receive a report likely to recommend a requirement for advice in a client’s “best interests” be replaced with a requirement to give mere “good advice”.
The royal commission wanted the corporate cop to first ask ‘why not litigate?’. The treasurer’s new guidelines suggest it should instead ask ‘why not negotiate?’.
In the 1700s ‘burial clubs’ emerged in response to fears of funeral poverty. These schemes persist today — along with marketing targeting the poor and vulnerable.
Executive Director @ Australian Institute of Performance Sciences, Strategic Partner @ Swinburne University MedTechVic, and Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Public Policy and Governance at, University of Technology Sydney