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Homeowners given preferential treatment: RIR

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 20 NOV 2020
... housing expenditure and therefore higher disposable incomes. "Home owners are less likely to face financial stress and poverty in retirement. Apart from working-life differences, some government policies affect home owners and renters differently," the ...

Spaceship launches new managed fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 NOV 2020
... rights track records, but is included in Spaceship's portfolio as its sees it contributing to UN SDG's goal 1 (no poverty) and foal 12 (responsible consumption and production). The previous two Spaceship Voyager funds were launched in May 2018. ...

Healthcare dominates impact investing: American Century

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 3 NOV 2020
... however, responded with environment and sustainability as their first preference followed by improved education, mitigating poverty and racial equity and social justice. American Century vice president, head of ESG and investment stewardship Guillaume ...

ERS extension flagged, criticised

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 6 OCT 2020
... big new tax to pay for a bloated future pension, drag down investment returns and will shove more Australians towards poverty in retirement. "Workers should no longer be asked to sacrifice their future to prop up the economy now, there are other levers ...

Female access to ERS to widen gender super gap

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2020
... the same cohort. Women in Super national chair Cate Wood said: "We are seeing increasing numbers of older women facing poverty in retirement. We cannot stand by and watch more generations face the same plight. It is important that we act now to ensure ...

Changes to advice incoming: Bragg

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2020
... market, referencing research by Rice Warner and Grattan, which suggests those who own a home are more likely to avoid poverty in retirement. "We have a rigid system here; we give our money to super funds and insurance, and while insurance can benefit ...

Morrison's legacy will be retirement poverty: ACTU

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2020
... early release of superannuation program, saying that Prime Minister Scott Morrison's legacy will be a wave of retirement poverty. Following the second round of early release withdrawals commencing on 1 July 2020 and the value of applications topping ...

Perpetual wins government fund mandate

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUL 2020
... initiative." "We are proud to play a part in the operation of the fund, which will have a positive impact on gender equality, poverty alleviation and economic growth in the Indo-Pacific." Perpetual Corporate Trust will provide the fiduciary and governance ...

HESTA asks Retirement Income Review to consider ERS

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2020
... assistance for our members but if urgent action is not taken these young women risk facing a greater vulnerability to poverty as they age," Blakey said. "We already know that women over the age of 55 are the faster growing group of people experiencing ...

A man is not a plan: Rice Warner

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2020
... working patterns and lower lifetime income," Buckley said. "A growing number of women older than 55 face the dilemma of a poverty-stricken retirement, as a result of caring for others." "We have a unique opportunity now to act to change the structural ...