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We investigate the effect of personal budget management services provided by a financial institution on undesirable debts of 4,256 individuals and families over a period of one year using objective budget data spanning three years. Results from this study using an Australian dataset show that the majority of the participants reduced their debt repayments and debt repayment to income ratio over a period of one year, Our results also show that the majority of the participants hod an increase in funds available for living expenses and savings.
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Can Personal Budget Management Services Improve Debt Repayments? A Study Using Budget Data<xref ref-type="fn" rid="j_fprj-2022-0001_fn_001">*</xref>

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This study examines the association between retiree financial planning horizon and retirement satisfaction using longitudinal data collected from the Health and Retirement Study. The results indicate that retirees with long-term financial planning horizons, compared to retirees with short-term financial planning horizons, are more likely to be satisfied with their retirement. The findings and ensuing discussion highlight the need for long-term financial planning during retirement and the need for financial planners to regularly engage in financial planning throughout their clients’ retirement.
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Retirees, Financial Planning Horizon, and Retirement Satisfaction

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This study presents a conceptual model to examine the factors influencing career choice in financial planning. Informed by career choice theory, the study uses questionnaires and interviews of financial advisers and financial planning students in Australia to find that social learning through life experiences, along with the enjoyment of working with numbers and aspiration to help others are important factors influencing the choice to pursue a career in financial planning. In addition, respondents scored highest on the agreeableness scale of the ‘Big Five’ personality test.
Contrary to popular media reports, results show that people choose financial planning as a career primarily because they want to help people. Findings also highlight the uniqueness of financial planning as a career that fulfils both agentic and communal goals which allows advisers to use their interest in numbers to help people. The study makes a valuable practical contribution to the development of financial planning by providing insights that may prove useful in recruiting the next generation of financial advisers. Our findings also have important implications for educators, regulators, and the profession more broadly. Further, it makes a theoretical contribution by providing a conceptual framework to aid in understanding the factors relevant to career choice, particularly in an emerging discipline such as financial planning where information on career choice is limited.
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Research has shown that investment success is largely driven by asset allocation. With the dramatic growth in number of exchange-traded funds (ETFs), individual investors have gained access to a wicie variety of funds including funds representing non-traditional asset classes, This proliferation of ETFs allows investors to take advantage of high return alternatives while maintaining an asset allocation that is well diversified. This paper explores the potential for creating effcient portfolios using ETFs exclusively. We use price data from 2007 to 2017 for thirty-four ETFs to demonstrate that a portfolio of ETFs based on an average optimal weight allocation has a higher Sharpe ratio than 85 percent of the ETFs studied. Constructing effcient portfolios based on the average of optimized weights improves this portfolio’s returns by 370 basis points and increases the Sharpe ratio significantly as compared with ex ante mean-variance optimization. We conclude that investors can benefit from using average optimized weights in building portfolios made up primarily of ETFs.
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Volume 8 (2022): Issue 1 (December 2022)

Can Personal Budget Management Services Improve Debt Repayments? A Study Using Budget Data*

Retirees, Financial Planning Horizon, and Retirement Satisfaction

Factors Influencing the Motivation to Pursue a Career in Financial Planning*

Efficient Asset Allocation for Individual Investors in the ETF World

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