Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 1241 - 1250 of 8613 results for "Lower"

No more easy 6% returns: Fidelity

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAR 2021
Despite the fairly sunny economic outlook, lower investment returns are a reality that institutional investors will have to grapple with, according to Fidelity International. Fidelity International cross asset investment specialist Anthony Doyle said ...

OpenMarkets raises $10m, moves up ranks

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAR 2021
OpenMarkets is set to list later this year, having secured $10 million in a pre-IPO fund raise as it overtook CMC Markets as second-largest retail broker in Australia. Now trailing only CommSec, OpenMarkets says feedback from investors in the oversubscribed ...

Funds announce chief ahead of merger

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 8 MAR 2021
With LGIAsuper and Energy Super to merge, the funds' boards have agreed on who will be chief executive. LGIAsuper chief executive Kate Farrar will lead the merged funds from 1 July 2021. The merger of LGIAsuper and Energy Super will see the funds ...

Childcare costs drag women's nest egg

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 8 MAR 2021
... reinforces the need for more support and protections for the vulnerable. To address especially hard-hit groups such as female and lower-skilled workers, policies should include incentives for balancing work and family care responsibilities; better access ...

Women need to rebuild super: AMP

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 8 MAR 2021
... AMP acting managing director of superannuation, retirement and platforms Ilaine Anderson said. "We know women already have lower super balances. We also know they're more likely to find themselves living below the poverty line in retirement." Anderson ...

Government retirement modelling leaves women behind: ISA

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 8 MAR 2021
... super system, like the outdated $450 threshold, we will continue to see women retiring with balances that are persistently lower than men." ISA deputy chief executive Matt Linden said: "Modelling based on wrong assumptions has real life ramifications ...

Women hit hardest by pandemic

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 5 MAR 2021
... Workplaces were able to support more vulnerable employees, as three in five workers attributed their mental health issues led to lower productivity, the report found. SuperFriend chief executive Margo Lydon said: "The events of 2020 have turned workplaces ...

More women in workforce with greater paternity leave: ASI

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAR 2021
... participation rates are higher," the research states. "This is something that can be directly addressed through policy changes that lower tax wedges for women whose labour supply is likely to be highly elastic." "Women are far more likely than men to ...

Equipsuper in another merger

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 2 MAR 2021
... enjoy the best of BOC Super but with enhanced benefits that Equip can offer, such as greater investment choice and likely lower fees," Lee said. In mid-2020, Equip finalised its merger with the Pitcher Retirement Plan, another corporate fund with $85 ...

Shock statistics on gender gap on boards

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 1 MAR 2021
... employees, a difference in average of $242.20 per week between men and women. Libby Lyons, director of WGEA, said that the lower gap may be as a direct result of COVID-19. "I understand that this result is, in part, due to an increase in the number of ...