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Elana Rubin nabs property board appointment

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUN 2013
... She also a director of Mirvac Group, PPB Advisory, the advisory board of Evans & Partners and a member of Chief Executive Women, of the Federal Government's Infrastructure Australia Council and of the Climate Change Authority. Rubin recently resigned ...

AFA Inspire initiative launched in Sydney

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 20 JUN 2013
... of Financial Advisers (AFA) formally launched its Inspire initiative to provide a network and professional community for women in the financial advice industry at an event in Sydney last night. The initiative is aimed not only at financial planners but ...

FIIG appoints joint heads of intermediaries

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JUN 2013
... Central, where she worked as a senior consultant implementing programs designed to address the business needs of professional women. FIIG's intermediaries team provides fixed-income investment services to financial planners, family offices and private ...

Board quotas an "embarrassment" for Australia: BlackRock

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 3 JUN 2013
... that diversity brings, according to BlackRock. In a new research report, BlackRock also said the glacial pace of growth of women on boards means that the imposition of quotas remains a very real possibility. BlackRock reviewed the composition of women ...

Lazard AM Australia names new CEO

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAY 2013
... managing director, head of client services and sales. Since 2010, Roberts has served as a national committee member for Women in Super and was also previously director of strategy at MLC. Meanwhile, Robert Prugue will lead the establishment of a new ...

Fewer Australians invest in shares: ASX

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAY 2013
... tertiary-educated men investing through an online broker. Men, the study found, were significantly more likely to own shares than women, with a ratio of 40% of men to 28% of women owning shares. One of the most significant changes since 2010 was the ...

Research reveals gender gap in share appetite

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAY 2013
Women under the age of 35 have a greater preference for shares than their male counterparts, according to the latest findings of the CFSGAM-UWA Business School Equity Preference Index (EPI). The research, conducted jointly between Colonial First State ...

Australians priced out of life insurance

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 13 MAY 2013
... also found that 17% believe their health insurance provides the same sort of cover as life insurance. The survey found that women take health risks more seriously than men, while young people aged between 18 and 24 believe their plans to live a long ...

Vale William Mahoney

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAY 2013
... residence in Sydney. His daughter Jo-Jo is currently at school in Melbourne. "He was a mentor to countless young men and women who passed through Bridgewater. He was cool in a crisis, steadfast in times of trouble, the first to pick up the bill, the ...

Women don't trust financial advisers: research

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAY 2013
Women have little trust in financial advisers and have raised concerns about "product pushing," preliminary results of research about how women manage money have revealed In the first stage of the research, professor Roslyn Russell from RMIT University ...