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Trade union boss pushes for SG raise

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 25 JUL 2011
... industry to maintain the fight for equal rights and to demand more action from government figures. Speaking at a Women In Super event about the challenges faced by Australian women at work and in retirement, Kearney spoke of the benefits of the proposal ...

Women in Super scholarship winners announced

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUL 2011
Winners of the Women in Super NSW scholarship program have been awarded and continue the group's work of getting more female representation of boards. Announced this week, NSW Women In Super (WIS) named its five winners who will attend a 'Getting Started ...

Board seats open for Women in Super

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 APR 2011
Women in Super (WIS) continues its push for better representation of women on executive boards, particularly super funds, through a new scholarship program. NSW WIS will fund the attendance of up to four NSW WIS members to a 'Women on Boards' Workshop ...

PAS supports Paceline

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 14 OCT 2010
... Planning Association held a charity golf day for the Rural Fire Service and the Future2 Foundation while AIST and Women in Super were the silver sponsor of the Canberra Mother's Day Classic supporting the National Breast Cancer Foundation's research ...

RBS develops ESG strategy

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 24 SEP 2010
... company's ESG policies. Dr Alva De Voy, an equity strategist from the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), spoke at the 'Women in Super' event about the new program, which is still in the works, that could help investors look at how a company's share price ...

New website for women and super

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 14 SEP 2010
... is the latest initiative addressing the savings gap, with other super funds, including, HESTA and association, Women in Super, all addressing the gender inequity problem in the industry.

Women in Super help raise $2.1m for breast cancer

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 29 JUL 2010
... the country helped raise $2.1 million for research into the prevention and cure of breast cancer in this year's Women in Super Mother's Day Classic. A record number of 100,000 people took part in the 2010 national fun run/walk and raised the highest ...

SCT chief Furlan talks tough on benefits

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUL 2010
... the conflict on insurance payouts. Jocelyn Furlan, chairperson of the Superannuation Complaints Tribunal, told a Women in Super audience that the design of default death cover can sometimes leave "unintended consequences, with lots of money sloshing ...

Diversify risk, not assets

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 12 MAR 2010
... that discipline. "All ideas and the status quo should be subject to continuous reappraisal," she said at a recent Women in Super lunch. To diversify risk, Tarditi quotes investor extraordinaire John Templeton who famously said: "If we don't understand ...

Women in Super aids breast cancer research

MEDIA RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 FEB 2010
Only three months to go before the 2010 Mother's Day Classic, the annual charity walk and run organised by Women in Super to support breast cancer research. The national event, which has raised more than $5.7 million since 1998, was launched yesterday ...