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Emslie departs AIST board

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAR 2016
... directors, and she has played a key role in supporting many policies including those that improve retirement outcomes for women," Garcia said.

We can do better for women in retirement: Senator

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAR 2016
... Mavis Robertson address at the Conference of Major Superannuation Funds in Adelaide yesterday, McAllister also called for women's budget statements to be reintroduced - something that was taken away by the Howard and Abbott governments. McAllister, who ...

ING DIRECT director to join global parent

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAR 2016
... Zealand and the Bank of Melbourne. Before joining Westpac, Sherry was First Assistant Secretary of the Office of the Status of Women - advising the Prime Minister on policies and programs to improve the status of women. In 2004, she was awarded an Order ...

Fraser Review compounds board independence impasse

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAR 2016
... legislative bind. As with any independent industry review there will be criticisms and one striking submission has come from Women on Boards chair Ruth Medd, who has challenged the review's existence. Medd said the terms of reference of this review are ...

Women-led super funds outperform

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAR 2016
Superannuation funds led by women, or with significant governance representation, out-perform "male-centric" funds by 50 basis points on average, according to Rainmaker SelectingSuper research. Released to coincide with International Women's Day, the ...

Gender pay gap worsening: ACTU

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 7 MAR 2016
With International Women's Day around the corner the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) has renewed calls for the federal government to make gender inequality a priority. The ACTU's updated gender pay gap report shows 60% of women aged between ...

Women on boards tracking well: AMP Capital

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAR 2016
... complete. Releasing its latest corporate governance report AMP Capital said in 2010, 60% of companies the firm held had no women directors. By 2015, this number had fallen to 21%. AMP Capital corporate governance manager Karin Halliday said there is ...

Survey shows people struggling to put more super away

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 29 FEB 2016
... retirement." The survey also found that 40% of Australians don't know how much they have saved in super. About 40% of Australian women do not expect to have enough money to retire on, compared to around 31% of men. A quarter of Australian women also ...

FSC reveals six-point super plan

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 29 FEB 2016
... "Encourage people to save voluntarily beyond the 12% guarantee - by maintaining contribution caps that are high enough to allow women and carers in particular to catch up on their savings after breaks from the workforce" (the FSC recommended an additional ...

Financial services adding more to economy than mining

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 26 FEB 2016
... Financial services is a major employer in the Australian economy accounting for 3.8% or 451,000 Australian jobs of which 52% are women. The report contains a comprehensive summary of the financial services industry covering key sectors of superannuation ...