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WiBF appoints first CEO

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 AUG 2013

Women need 7% more super

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 2 AUG 2013
Women's superannuation contribution rates would need to be 7% higher than men's in order to achieve gender equality, a study has found. Research by Michael E Drew and Anup K Basu, entitled 'The Case for Gender-Sensitive Superannuation Plan Design' ...

Perpetual encourages women writers

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 1 AUG 2013
Perpetual has awarded Australian women writers through the Kibble Awards, an initiative managed by its charitable trust that consolidates its position after 20 years in the philanthropy space. Perpetual Philanthropic Services recently announced that ...

Yields above 10% up for grabs in unlisted property

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JUL 2013
... into the future. The childcare and early learning centres, meanwhile, were benefitting from the growing participation of women in the workplace. Folkestone, which is headed-up by former Paladin Australia property veteran Greg Paramour, has four funds ...

Women without kids still at super disadvantage

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUL 2013
Women amass substantially less super than men, regardless of whether or not they have children, according to a new research paper by the Australian Institute. The paper, entitled 'What's choice got to do with it?' found that even if women work full ...

Aged care services under funded and set to worsen

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUL 2013
... population, but to social changes. "There are less informal care networks than they used to be because families are smaller now, women usually work and it is easy that family members live in different cities, so formal care is somehow a substitute of ...

Generation Y busts SMSF age myth

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUL 2013
... communication is generally good in Australian households. While the 'man of the house' is still the dominant character, women are catching up. A significant number of young people (between 15 and 20%) planning to set up an SMSF in the near future are ...

Super funds need more women in senior roles: WIS

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUL 2013
Women in Super (WIS), a networking and advocacy group for women working in superannuation, is urging the super industry to adopt targets to increase the number of women in senior management roles. Speaking at the launch of the 2013 WIS National Road ...

Women hit with double burden on retirement savings

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUL 2013
Middle-aged women may be twice as disadvantaged as men when it comes to accumulating superannuation savings for their retirement, as they not only take a break from work to have children but also take on the role of caring for their parents later in ...

Women in Super raise $5m for breast cancer research

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUN 2013
Women in Super raised a record $5 million at the 2013 Mother's Day Classic, which will be used to fund breast cancer research. Since 1998, the advocacy group has raised $19.8 million since it started to collect funds for cancer research. The Mother's ...