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Schools Competition

COMPETITION DETAILS

Prepare a PowerPoint Presentation that shows the most effective way of communicating features/aspects/ideas on KiwiSaver to Secondary School Students.

• The presentation must be no less than 10 slides, no longer than 5 minutes duration.
• Contain ten Positive Points, two Negative Points (if applicable, together with arguments to address negative points) and four Action /How To Points.
• Competition opens 9^th May 2011 and closes 3^rd August 2011.
• Judging will be undertaken by Carmel Fisher, of Fisher Funds, Clair Macpherson Jones and Kathy Jarrett members of the Institute of Financial Advisers
  during 3^rd -6^th August 2011.
• Winner's School Principal will be contacted on or around 8^th August 2011.
• Winner will be notified by the 10^th August 2011.
  

RULES

• All entrants must be enrolled in a Secondary School.
• Consent of the principal of the nominated Educational Institution Provider must be obtained on the entry form, acknowledging the entrant's involvement.
• Consent must be given to IFA and Fisher Funds by the winner and his/her school to participate in any reporting/publicity about the competition.
• Consent of a parent or guardian must be obtained, attesting that the work is the entrant's own work.
• Family of Authorised Financial Advisers, Registered or Institute of members and their business entities and staff are excluded.
• The entrant must be available for a prize-giving presentation during Financial Awareness Week 15^th -19^th August 2011.
• The prize is for an individual and cannot be shared, all entries are therefore individual.
• The entrant must consent to the winning entry being utilised by the IFA and Retirement Commissioner as research and insight into communicating financial concepts to students.
• No guarantee of return or retention of PowerPoint entries, so each individual should ensure they retain copies of their presentation.
• Judges reserve the right to award no prize should the standard of entries be below reasonable expectations.
• The judge's decision is final and no further correspondence will be entered into.
• Entries to be sent to carmel@fisherfunds.co.nz.
  

PRIZE

• $1,000 deposited by Fisher Funds to the Fisher Funds KiwiSaver – Growth Fund, in winning Student’s Name.
• $1,000 cash to the winners school.

PLEASE NOTE:

Where the winner does not have a current KiwiSaver account, the Kickstart of $1,000 will also be contributed to the winners KiwiSaver Scheme by Government via Inland Revenue provided that it is available.

Download the Competition form and Entry form here.

Fisher Funds is delighted to sponsor the Financial Awareness Week 2011 School Competition. We look forward to judging and awarding the prize for the student and school that demonstrates the most effective way of promoting KiwiSaver to secondary school students.

The First prize will be a $1,000 contribution to a Fisher Fund KiwiSaver account for the winning student, and $1,000 paid to the student's secondary school as a donation.