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Industry reacts to Federal Budget

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2024
... takes Australia another major stride closer to ending the financial motherhood penalty many women face when they have children," she said. "It's a watershed reform that will powerfully strengthen retirement savings for Australian mums and help to narrow ...

Budget 2024: Additional $11.3bn promised for housing

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAY 2024
... and buy. The new investments include $1 billion directed towards crisis and transitional accommodation for women and children fleeing domestic violence, and youth under the National Housing Infrastructure Facility. The Budget increased the proportion ...

Billionaire quant investing legend Jim Simons dies

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 13 MAY 2024
... enormous impact in mathematics, basic science and our understanding of autism." Simons is survived by his wife, three children, five grandchildren, and a great-grandchild.

Men, women in same occupation drive pay gap

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAY 2024
... organisation E61 Institute compared men and women of similar age, their employment and marital status, whether they had children, and academic qualifications working in the same occupation. It found that women have an hourly wage that is 15% less than ...

Fund managers nervously await 'golden visa' reforms

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 APR 2024
... applicants in 10 years, an average of only 313 per year. These figures do not include the applicants' spouse and dependent children. "The SIV is very small in number but has a significant impact on Australia. While it may be suggested that the program ...

Philip Lowe joins LIC board

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAR 2024
... 13.1% per annum at the end of December 2023. FGX and FGG have made a social impact investment that focus on Australian children and youth at risk worth $37.8 million. The LIC's founder and director Geoff Wilson said: "We are excited to work with ...

Super on unpaid parental leave extended in Western Australia

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 11 MAR 2024
... economic disadvantage experienced by women, whose careers and superannuation balances often take a hit when they have children," WA industrial relations minister Simone McGurk said. "The retirement pay gap for women has been too wide for too long. This ...

'About bloody time': Industry responds to PPL super reform

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAR 2024
... significantly fewer savings on average than men as a result of taking time off work or working reduced hours to have and raise children." "It's about bloody time. "A new generation of women who receive the full benefit of the Superannuation Guarantee ...

Government to pay super on paid parental leave

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAR 2024
... removing any assumptions around primary care. "The data is clear - that when women take time out of the workforce to raise children it impacts their retirement incomes with women retiring, on average, with about 25% less super than men," minister for ...

Long-term cost of super early release to be $85bn: SMC

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAR 2024
... super's preservation rules," she said. "People are left with far less money at retirement, and the next generation - our children and grandchildren - will have to pay higher taxes to pick up the bill for higher pension costs." According to Roy Morgan ...
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