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'Constant tinkering' leaves Australians uncertain: MLC

KERRIE SYDEE  |  MONDAY, 22 AUG 2016
... shares felt more prepared for retirement, compared to 15% of those who did not own those assets. In an unsurprising result, women felt more underprepared than their male counterparts, at 74% and 57% respectively. Of those currently retired, 57% of women ...

Millennials face gender inequality shock

KERRIE SYDEE  |  MONDAY, 22 AUG 2016
... level is disenfranchising millennials as they get to grips with a workplace stuck in its gendered past. Oliver Wyman's 2016 Women in financial services report revealed that while female representation on financial services boards is now at 20% and 16% ...

ESSSuper appoints new CFO

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 19 AUG 2016
... director of the Australian World Orchestra, chair of the River Nile Learning Centre (providing a safe learning environment for women and their children seeking asylum) and is an adviser to the fintech start-up Feldbay Australia (Equipex), and the compliance ...

Scholarship launched to support female planners

KERRIE SYDEE  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 AUG 2016
Griffith Business School and SunSuper have partnered to introduce a scholarship to assist women in the financial planning industry. Scholarship recipients will receive $5,000 to put towards their studies and will also be offered either work experience ...

AU wins Herston Quarter mandate

KERRIE SYDEE  |  MONDAY, 15 AUG 2016
... Queensland Government over the coming months to finalise the project contracts and masterplan. Adjacent to the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, the Herston Quarter masterplan for the five hectare site includes a public rehabilitation hospital, a ...

BlackRock publishes staff gender split

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2016
... has become the latest to join a handful of firms publishing the gender split of their staff as well as what proportion of women hold senior management roles. The move comes amid growing concerns about the shortage of women in the funds management industry. ...

Super changes to widen super gender gap: IOOF

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 5 AUG 2016
Changes to superannuation will deliver another setback to an adequate retirement for women, according to senior technical services manager at IOOF, Pam Roberts. Following the May 2016 budget there have been countless objections to the changes such as ...

PROFILE: Metlife chief executive Deanne Stewart

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUL 2016
... something she says will affect companies' ability to attract and retain key staff. A problem once deemed to affect more women than men; Stewart claims that this is no longer the case and that most companies have a long way to go before their policies ...

Focus on older men will kill financial planning

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUL 2016
... Millennium3 Financial Services, which bought the business "SuperWoman" to create a financial planning business staffed by women which served female clients exclusively. He explained: "It didn't work at all. We ended up selling it, and the name is now ...

No progress on super wealth gap in 12 years

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUL 2016
The gap in superannuation balances between the rich and the poor and also between men and women has shown little sign of narrowing in the last 12 years, according to the latest annual Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) survey. ...