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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 ...

Early release of super scammers cop prison time

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAY 2024
... defrauding the COVID-19 early release of superannuation scheme for $103,500. The Brisbane District Court sentenced three women from Queensland, whose identities were not revealed, for submitting several fraudulent applications to access the early release ...

Freshwater Wealth launches

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAY 2024
... proactive advice to help manage common life challenges. "Demand is extremely high and there is a huge opportunity with retirees, women and those who have inherited money or who are facing an illness, to provide a service that focusses on achieving clients' ...

New platform launches for high-net-worth families

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2024
... platform also supports improved financial literacy outcomes and engagement with particularly among younger generations and women," Tubman said. "Over the next 20 years we will see an unprecedented amount of wealth being transferred from the baby boomers ...

Financial services workers eye earlier retirement

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAY 2024
Men and women who work in financial services intend to retire earlier compared to the average worker, new data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) reveals. Men who work in the finance and insurance industries intend to retire at 64 years ...

COVID helped to reduce inequality: Productivity Commission

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAY 2024
... effect of reducing wealth inequality," de Fontenay said. The report examined three cohorts in closer detail: older people, women, and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. The report found that while older Australians have relatively low incomes ...

Liberals respond to Federal Budget

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAY 2024
... Australians to access up to $50,000 of their superannuation to buy their first home and extended this policy to separated women to help restart their lives. However, the money initially withdrawn from superannuation would need to be returned when the ...

Poor gender diversity not a 'women's problem': Panel

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2024
... wealth managers, who urge the industry to seize the opportunities to make meaningful changes. In a fireside chat discussing women and wealth at the Stockbrokers and Investment Advisers Association Conference (SIAA), prominent leaders of wealth advisory ...

Members' attitude, behaviour key to better engagement

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2024
... significant differences between females (6.2) and males (6.6) and members with default (6.1) and custom investment mix (6.9). Women were also three times more likely (7%) to feel 'overwhelmed' when it comes to retirement than men (2%). CSBA CX ...

Industry reacts to Federal Budget

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2024
... increase in superannuation balance would be at least $10,700 in today's dollars, ASFA said. "Future generations of Australian women stand to add thousands to their super balances thanks to this change in policy. This is a crucial and long-overdue step ...