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Up close and personal: Women in financial services

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2019
... responsibilities, it is likely the document could easily form a book. Coonan founded her own law firm at 25-years-old; was the first woman in Australia to hold the office of Assistant Treasurer; and later, as Communications Minister, she was alongside ...

30% Club expands target

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAR 2019
... telecommunications provider TPG Telecom among the three. Further, a whole quarter of the companies in the ASX200 have just one woman on their boards.

Sydney's latest high net-worth individual

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2019
Sydney's HNWI community is set to welcome its latest member, after a woman suddenly became $107 million richer. A mother in her 40s will rocket into Sydney's high net-worth individual set, after she took out the division one prize in Thursday's $100 ...

California mandates gender board diversity

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 11 JAN 2019
... diversity for publicly listed companies. From 1 January 2019 public companies headquartered in California must have at least one woman on the board of directors by year end or pay significant penalties. By 2021, companies with six or more directors must ...

New super fund to secure female financial security

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 3 DEC 2018
... investment manager have been working with BetaShares to contact companies in Betashares' global ethical ETF without a woman on their board. Betashares will dump all companies without a woman on the board from this ETF by early 2019. Further, members ...

Government allows domestic violence victims early super access

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 20 NOV 2018
... violence. HESTA chief executive Debby Blakey said the fund had advocated extensively for the change, pointing out at least one woman is killed by a partner or former partner each week. "Women often escape a violent situation with limited assets and serious ...

Industry fund appoints former Labor politician

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 OCT 2018
... HESTA's chair when current chair Angela Emslie steps down at the end of her term on December 31. Roxon was the first woman to be appointed Attorney General. During her time as the Federal Health Minister, she introduced plain packaging for tobacco ...

Diversity is the answer to war for talent

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2018
... so. Of the 45 Australian companies identified by the firm as not having a single female board member, 21 have appointed a woman to their board, with one other committing to do the same. (See: SSGA strengthens gender equality actions ).

SSGA strengthens gender equality actions

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2018
... Advisors will vote against the entire slate of board members on a nominating committee if a company does not have at least one woman on its board. SSGA said the enhancement to its board gender diversity voting guidelines would begin in Australia, the ...

Part-time work widens super gender gap

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2018
... differences in working hours," he said. Additionally, one-in-six chief executives of non-public sector organisations is a woman and the rate is increasing slowly. "However, there are more notable increases in the rate of women in other leadership positions ...