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Government urged to overhaul gift tax system

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUL 2024
... work to prevent poverty, animal welfare charities, and charities that work across DGR categories in support of groups like women, young people and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are facing barriers to inclusion in the current system. "Our ...

QIC backs new venture capital initiative

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 15 JUL 2024
... investors are notably underrepresented. "Approximately one in four members of early-stage VC investment teams in Queensland are women, and that drops to one in 10 at the General Partner level," Baker said. "We recognise the gender gap is a very real ...

Job mobility falls for first time in three years

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUL 2024
... during the five years leading up to the COVID-19 pandemic," Jarvis said. "Job mobility rates have fallen for both men and women, but fell by more for men. As a result, job mobility over the past year was slightly higher for women at 8.2%, compared to ...

Family office buys into WNBL potential

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUL 2024
... Tesla chair Robyn Denholm, Wollemi Capital Group, has partnered with the National Basketball League (NBL) to acquire the Women's National Basketball League (WNBL) from Basketball Australia. Wollemi Capital Group and the NBL have formed a consortium to ...

Financial advice profession 'lacks consistent protocols'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUN 2024
... Financial abuse affects a significant number of Australians, with the Australian Bureau of Statistics reporting that 1.6 million women and 745,000 men have experienced financial abuse. It is also recognised in both state and federal laws as a form of ...

Gender gap to close in 134 years: World Economic Forum

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 JUN 2024
... Forum managing director Saadia Zahidi said. "We cannot wait until 2158 for parity. The time for decisive action is now." Women's representation in the political sphere increased at the federal and local level, though top-level positions remained largely ...

Super leaders take out King's Birthday honours

ELIZABETH FRY  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUN 2024
... Cbus, the industry fund that serves the building and construction industry. Mostyn, a former president of Chief Executive Women, was awarded a Companion of the Order of Australia in the general division for her eminent service in the social justice ...

Super tax concessions cost $54.5bn in lost revenue: Research

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUN 2024
Australia Institute research found women and low-income earners are being left behind by a superannuation tax concession system that disproportionately benefits high-income earners and men. The report said super tax concessions help high income earners ...

Who is the highest paid S&P500 company chief?

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUN 2024
... A typical S&P500 company worker earned US$81,467, up 5.2% from 2022. Out of the 341 chief executives, only 25 or 7% are women, growing by five from last year's study. Women took home a median pay package of US$17.6 million in 2023. Lisa T. Su, the ...

HESTA pushes for expediated advice reforms

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 3 JUN 2024
... tools for retirement planning. HESTA reported that more than 300,000 of its nearly one million members, 80% of whom are women, have used digital tools to engage with their super. Nearly 100,000 have used the fund's new app since its launch in July last ...