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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 16 FEB 2010
... RBA releases minutes of its February 2 board meeting. RBA assistant governor of financial markets Guy Debelle addresses a Women in Finance function. National Australia Bank releases its monthly business survey for January and its agribusiness survey. ...

Women on top of SMSFs

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 12 FEB 2010
... Government's top goals in super - getting more members to take an active role in their retirement savings and getting more women involved, argue industry experts. Product providers new to the industry should understand the demographics in the SMSF landscape ...

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 ...

Retirement savings shortfall worsens: IFSA

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 1 FEB 2010
... widened from $26,000 per person to more than five years ago, to $73,000 today. The research showed older Australians and women who had left the workforce for a period to have a family were particularly exposed. IFSA has renewed calls for an increase ...

Still a lucky country: research

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 8 DEC 2009
... behaviour, the research reinforced the gender gap evident in previous research. For example, men are more likely to save than women, possibly due to the salary gap. Around 16 per cent of men are running into debt compared to a quarter of women in the ...

Boardrooms lack female directors: research

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 7 DEC 2009
... group to release a name-and-shame report on the gender imbalance that continues to prevail in the financial services sector. Women on Boards (WOB) has long campaigned for better representation of women in high-ranking roles, particularly in executive ...

Women in Super to grant $10,000 scholarship

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 7 DEC 2009
Women in Super (WIS) members specialising in finance are invited to apply for a $10,000 scholarship to attend the Third AIST Global Dialogue in Hong Kong next year. The conference will be held from 30 May to 4 June 2010 covering governance issues and ...

Men behaving womanly

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 30 NOV 2009
Men are living longer than they used to, thanks to women, and the narrowing of the mortality gap between both genders must be factored in any financial plan, said a demographics expert. Actuarial statistics on the mortality of the Australian population ...

Retirement savings only last a few years

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2009
... after age 65. However, the incomes of those currently aged 65 and over and retired - around $23,000 for men and $19,000 for women - are not high enough to finance the retirement expectations being expressed by those approaching retirement, noted the ...

AXA launches iPhone apps for women

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2009
AXA Equitable Life Insurance Company has launched two new women-centric financial applications for Apple's iPhone and iTouch. The free apps, available for download from iTunes, provide women consumers on-the-go access to financial calculators to help ...