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Super baby bonus proposed

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 8 FEB 2022
... child. The $5000 figure would be equivalent to the amount in superannuation guarantee contributions a person on a $60,000 salary would receive, ASFA said, adding that such a measure could benefit up to 300,000 women. "While the superannuation system ...

2021 lined homeowners' pockets: Data

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 3 FEB 2022
... house and owned some shares, ended the year about $170,000 better off. And that's after-tax and in addition to their salary, Rainmaker Information said, the median of which was $63,000 in Australia last year. This is because in the 2021 calendar ...

Risk, compliance salaries soar: Data

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 1 FEB 2022
... continues to see upward pressure on salaries in the risk and compliance space. While it reflects the overall pandemic-induced salary trend, it's also driven by demand for more niche expertise and a lack of candidates. Data released by Kaizen Recruitment ...

Positive hiring outlook for 2022: Research

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JAN 2022
... biggest hiring challenge in 2022, almost four in 10 (39%) Australian business leaders identified meeting candidates' salary expectations to be their main challenge. This was closely followed by reskilling/upskilling existing employees (36%) and finding ...

Shareholders reject Westpac remuneration report

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 16 DEC 2021
... will face a board spill. The remuneration report included chief executive Peter King's package of $2.4 million as base salary, and variable incentives of $2.4 million for the short term and $3.2 million for the long term. Non-executive directors' ...

Challenger taps Hamilton for top job

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 DEC 2021
... $1.075 million, inclusive of superannuation. It is expected that his annual short term incentive will be capped at twice his salary and he will also be entitled to a long term incentive. Challenger will now undertake a recruitment process to fill the ...

Longo's ASIC less aggressive: Report

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 10 DEC 2021
... not litigate' approach - which it adopted post-Royal Commission. Longo's appointment during the COVID-19 pandemic, after salary scandals saw chair James Shipton and deputy chair Daniel Crennan depart, meant he was hired with a government mandate to 'support ...

Magellan chief executive resigns

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 7 DEC 2021
... as a teenager. Mackay and Douglass would go on to become colleagues at Schroders. Cairns was paid a $1.54 million base salary and a $772,500 bonus for his role as chief executive of the fund manager in FY2021. According to Magellan's most recent ...

Financial services feels talent crunch

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 28 OCT 2021
... employers pulling out all cards in an attempt to retain staff. It was a bustling quarter for the Kaizen team with the average salary placed at $141,000, at a high of $330,000 and a start of $70,000," Kaizen said. Last quarter, 57% of the firm's placements ...

$450 super threshold to be scrapped

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 28 OCT 2021
... larger home stock for younger families. Additionally, the bill supports the repeal of the work test for non-concessional and salary sacrificed contributions which will be implemented through regulation changes the government intends to make before the ...