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Women paid less at every age, rank: Data

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUN 2022
... support part-time management and job-sharing structures, for example, to make it possible for parents who may want to work school hours. In times of a tight talent market, attracting and retain highly skilled and capable women is more important than ...

AIST names Rising Star

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUN 2022
... her talent and leadership." The award is sponsored by Federated Hermes. Stuart will now undertake the Harvard Business School Real Estate Management Program which aims to strengthen strategic decision-making through the examination of finance and leadership ...

Superhero board signs former ASIC boss

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAY 2022
Former ASIC chair James Shipton has joined the board of Superhero. The trading platform, which launched in September 2020, has close to 200,000 investors and rolled out zero brokerage US share trading as well as its flagship superannuation offering. ...

Pain of commodity price increases to last: World Bank

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 APR 2022
... and the livelihoods of the poor." Nations should invest in targeted safety-net programs, the World Bank said, including school feeding programs, cash transfers and public work programs, rather than dishing out food and fuel subsidies. The World Bank ...

Tax Practitioners Board adds two new members

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 APR 2022
... ministry chief of staff and senior advisor. He also currently serves as adjunct professor at Deakin University Business School and co-founded the Small-Medium-Size Enterprises (SME) Research Center. Dobson has spent nearly 10 years with the Small Business ...

Floods, fires, plagues catered to in Budget

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2022
... Under the 'Resilient Kids' program, $10 million will be provided over 4 years from 2021-22 to support the mental health of school-aged children in the Northern Rivers region affected by the recent flood event." While Frydenberg committed to net zero ...

Excise tax, super top budget worries

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2022
... cost of living, especially with petrol prices soaring to well over $2 a litre. Professor of economics at UNSW Business School Richard Holden says there will be immense pressure on Treasurer Josh Frydenberg to announce something to address this. "Petrol ...

Key Budget measure won't help economy: Academic

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAR 2022
A Macquarie Business School academic has said one-off payments like those expected in next week's Federal Budget won't do anything to address long-term structural issues in Australia's economy. A one-off payment to combat the rising cost of living is ...

Can Russia use crypto to get around sanctions?

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAR 2022
... largest share of crypto transfers abroad, after Turkey and Ukraine. Elvira Sojli, associate professor of finance in the School of Banking and Finance at UNSW Business School, explained that crypto can be used to get around sanctions. "The sanctions ...

Cbus names deputy chair

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAR 2022
... secretary of the Australian Farmers Fighting Fund. In addition to Cbus, Wawn currently chairs the board of Canberra Grammar School Foundation and is a non-executive director of the National Australia Day Council. In a statement, recently installed Cbus ...