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Labor commits $400m to gender super gap

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 SEP 2018
... phased out by 1 July 2024. Shorten said a Labor Government will also make it easier for employers to contribute extra into a woman's super fund by amending the Sex Discrimination Act 1984, as well as consider and publish the impact that any future super ...

Stale boys club lingers on: Research

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 AUG 2018
... portfolio managers working at superannuation funds and major funds management organisations; 34% said they were the only woman employed in their occupation in their workplace. The research identified negative views and attitudes towards women working ...

Royal Commission cracks down on life insurance phone sales

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUL 2018
... thousands of customers as a result of poor sales practices. The Commission heard the story of Kathy Marika, an indigenous woman who was convinced into buying a funeral insurance policy with Let's Insure (which is owned by Select AFSL) even though ...

Average superannuation balances double, female savings lag

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 2 JUL 2018
... intending retirees, females still lag well behind males. According to Roy Morgan, the average superannuation balance of a woman intending to retire in the next 12 months is only worth 57.3% of the superannuation balance held by a man in a similar position. ...

Fees for no service compensation unfinished business: ASIC

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAY 2018
... corporate reputation and credibility. In 2017, 10 of the 13 companies ACSI targeted on gender diversity appointed their first woman director, Silk said. "All 12 priority companies we targeted on remuneration improved their practices in line with shareholder ...

Industry fund adds chair, first female director

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 30 APR 2018
... business consulting. The industry fund has also appointed Kerry Johnson as an independent director, marking the fund's first woman on the board. Johnson is currently group manager, organisational effectiveness at Teys Australia, the nation's second largest ...

More female clients requires more female advisers

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAR 2018
... "When I started as an adviser it was mostly the man [from a couple] that came to see me, and I always insisted on having the woman in the room as well but it wouldn't always happen...It's actually changing now. Women are taking a far bigger role in the ...

Super funds call for SG increase to aid women

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAR 2018
... gap or the type of work women perform, the super fund proposes the Federal Government contribute the additional 2.5% on a woman's behalf. Human Super chief executive Pascale Helyar-Moray said the move would help in diminishing the number of women ending ...

Planners vital to closing super gap: Research

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 12 FEB 2018
... the average account balance held by the 73.6% of men that have super. While there are a number of factors that impact a woman's ability to accumulate superannuation at the same rate as their male counterparts, the statistics have improved since 2013 ...

Glass ceiling stops at C-Suite

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 15 AUG 2017
... for every man's dollar. I think we need to flip that. I think we have to say to men, 'You earn $1.22 for every dollar a woman earns - you're getting a bonus just for having a Y-chromosome'. It becomes obvious that privilege is invisible to those who ...