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New faces to lead financial services policy reform

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 21 SEP 2015
... inquiry into advice, ethical and education standards and the proposed Life Insurance Framework. O'Dwyer is one of the five women in Turnbull's Cabinet and is no stranger to the nuances of the financial services industry. She was a policy adviser to Peter ...

Super executive leaves for Mozambique

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 SEP 2015
... Mozambique, and in the process bringing accounting skills not just to the centre administration, but also to young men and women who will be empowered to do great things." Grindley said he visited Mozambique for the first time in 2013 and was moved immediately. ...

AFA announces awards finalists

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 SEP 2015
... award with the aim of promoting positive change in the form of gender diversity within financial advice, by encouraging more women to enter the industry, and take leadership roles," AFA chief executive Brad Fox said. He added, "Women are typically less ...

Women fail to break into the industry's last boys club

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 8 SEP 2015
... teams outperform those who are male-only. At a time when the financial services sector is pushing to increase the amount of women on boards and in executive positions, the issue of female fund managers remains unspoken and under-researched. There is ...

Government should super seed low income earners

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2015
... Superannuation Trustees (AIST) last week, the average superannuation balance at retirement was $197,000 for men and $105,000 for women.

Highest paid industry CEOs revealed

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2015
... list, but the fact that she stepped down from her role and was replaced by Brian Hartzer means that there are currently no women among the country's highest paid chief executives. ACSI found that the average cash bonus for ASX100 chief execs was $1.35 ...

Scrapping LISC was shameful and retrograde: Bowen

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2015
... slammed the measure as "shameful" and added that the outcome of it has been "terrible" for low income earners, especially women. "Two years ago the Prime Minister appointed himself minister for women and yet the single biggest policy decision that this ...

Super doing its job: Actuaries Institute

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2015
... years' time, confirming the importance of the Superannuation Guarantee in providing an element of social equity. Single women are likely to experience the worst outcome in retirement compared to couples and single men, with many unable to achieve a comfortable ...

PROFILE: AvSuper chief executive Michelle Wade

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2015
... Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) and earlier this year Wade ceased her non-executive director role at Women in Super. She said the Women in Super role was a terrific opportunity to work with local ladies in Canberra by building ...

Australians are hardly retirement ready

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2015
... comfortable standard of retirement of $42,569 per annum, Rubinsztein said. There were also significant gaps between men's and women's retirement readiness. Rubinsztein added that older age groups have suffered from not enjoying superannuation guarantee ...