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Single women a rising force in residential property

Single women may account for a small portion of the home buyer market but a recent survey has revealed they are fast becoming a dominant force. A survey commissioned by First National Real Estate has found that adding to a majority 79 per cent of women ...

Women like risk, men think too much

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 APR 2006
While behavioral finance helps explain the things that economics gets wrong, a greater understanding of investor behavior may help us develop investment products that better suit individuals. Tracey McNaughton, senior economist with BT Financial Group ...

US pension fund wealth bigger than individual wealth

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 APR 2006
... model and the society. Challenging Greider's views, at least in part, WEL a fund that invests in companies that promote pro-women work practices has dramatically underperformed its benchmark, while using super fund investments to promote ideological ...

SRI next gen - funds that only invest in companies run by women

If Socially Responsible Investing (SRI) needs ideas, they need look no further than the $A50 million Women's Equity Fund (WEF) in the US. WEF invests only in companies that seek to increase leadership opportunities for women employees, or who agree ...

Super splitting could save $21,000 in tax: AMP

... breaking their RBL. The new rules open up a world of opportunity for low income earners and non-working spouses, quite often women." The new rules also offer advantages in regards to accessing pension benefits and reducing income tax in retirement, Nicholas ...

Super is not all about Eve

... children, retiring earlier than men and family break ups on the rise are just some of the factors that should motivate young women to be more aware of their super fund," said max Super's CEO, Andrew Barlow. According to research conducted by the Australian ...

New survey debunks age-old investor behaviour views

A recent survey of investor behaviour is debunking age-old views on how men and women invest, and will potentially drive the popularity of gender-specific or lifecycle type managed funds. BT Financial Group and The University of Western Australia (UWA) ...

CARE for interactive education

... six minutes. As a start, there will be four topics including the basics of super, choice of fund and a special feature for women. "We will continue to build this resource and hope that it acts as an innovative vehicle to deliver simple information to ...

Super splitting to go ahead in new year

... or after January 1, 2006 to be split between spouses and will particularly benefit non-working spouses, and in particular women, said Assistant Treasurer Mal Brough. "Splitting will allow non-working spouses to have superannuation assets under their ...

German women-only bank launched

Frauenbank has launched in Germany, a bank, financial services and wealth management group exclusively targeting women who want to avoid "sharp suited bankers". The new bank is the brain child of Astrid Hasterider, an information technology consultant ...