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UK takes steps to remove gender pay gap

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAR 2022
The UK government is introducing a pilot program to increase transparency around pay, to the benefit of women. It comes as many companies face backlash for showing support for International Women's Day while also paying their male employees significantly ...

Hejaz Financial Services partners with outsource Financial

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAR 2022
The partnership will enable Hejaz to provide Australian Muslims with better access to its range of Sharia-compliant services and products. In recent research, Hejaz found that 36% of Australian Muslims do not have a savings account and 46% reluctantly ...

AMP hands down tech mandate

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAR 2022
AMP awarded a technology mandate to a global provider in a bid to improve the efficiency of its North platform. SS&C Technologies forged the partnership with AMP to deliver digital and administrative capabilities, promising high levels of automation ...

Yarra recruits BTFM specialist

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAR 2022
Yarra Capital Management has strengthened its sales and distribution team, hiring an investment specialist from BT Financial Group. Tim Mugglestone has been appointed research relationship manager at Yarra, based in Sydney. He joins from BT Financial ...

Women own $1.2tn in super: Research

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAR 2022
About $1.2 trillion of the total superannuation savings held by Australians belongs to women, with most held by Australian Retirement Trust while Rest has the most female members. Rainmaker Information analysis of super fund information published by ...

Alpha females

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAR 2022
The integration of environmental, social and governance concerns (ESG) into investment decisions has well and truly gone mainstream - but there is one element of governance that still flies under the radar for many investors. That is, gender diversity ...

Action on super gap slow, small

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAR 2022
... implemented. This is despite the fact some of these reforms have been suggested for more than a decade. Financial Standard archives show that in 2008 the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) was lobbying government to mandate super ...

Switch to value could hurt super: Research

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 7 MAR 2022
The negative returns for equities in January may not have been the biggest problem for super funds, with the size of the value premium seen posing a significant risk to investors with actively managed growth style portfolios. Latest analysis from Rainmaker ...

Gender imbalance persists in ASX200

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 7 MAR 2022
Less than 10% of chief executive and chair positions in Australia's publicly listed companies are occupied by women, a new analysis of the ASX200 reveals. Women make up 9.5% of chair roles while just 6.5% serve as chief executives, new research from ...

New digital solution to close advice gap

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAR 2022
SWU Group has partnered with OpenInvest to make high quality investment products and services more readily available. The online investing solution, called SWU Online Invest, is being delivered via a partnership with Melbourne-based fintech investment ...