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Some Australians being taxed more on super than pay: SMC

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 12 AUG 2025
New research by Super Members Council (SMC) found those on the lowest wealth rungs are not benefitting from super as those further up the ladder. SMC said this was due to less paid work due to disability, health or caring responsibilities; higher costs ...

Super Fierce goes into liquidation

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUN 2025
... of Super Fierce, officially launched it on International Women's Day in 2022 in the hope of tackling the gender wealth gap. The platform primarily compared superannuation products with the aim of ensuring women retire with more. Super Fierce collated ...

Australia's wealth gap deepens: Report

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 SEP 2023
The gap between those with the most and those with the least has blown out over the past two decades, with the average wealth of the highest 20% growing at four times the rate of the lowest, new research suggests. A new report by the Australian Council ...

Super Fierce targets gender wealth gap

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAR 2022
The scalable advice platform aimed at addressing the gender wealth gap has officially launched this International Women's Day, with narrowing the superannuation its primary focus. The Super Fierce platform primarily compares superannuation products ...

Verve Super taps investors for $2.6m raise

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 14 SEP 2021
... interest in our purpose as a mission-led business or the unique nature of how we're supporting women to close the gender wealth gap. It was often impossible to find a common language," Hobbs said. "So, we pivoted, we sought out Australian businesswomen ...

Australia among the richest nations

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUN 2021
The nation's wealth gap continues to widen as new research suggests Australia is among the richest in the world, rising up the ranks to record one of the largest gains in wealth in 2020. Credit Suisse's latest Global Wealth report saw Australia ...

Generational wealth gap continues to widen

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAY 2021
... 40s, 50s, and 60s are likely to be significantly worse off financially than their parents, with the intergenerational wealth gap only widening. Speaking at the Conference of Major Superannuation Funds, Taylor Fry principal actuary Hugh Miller explained ...

Young-old wealth gap widest in 18 years

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 17 AUG 2020
... across six domains relating to wealth and wellbeing from 2000-2018 across different age groups. The intergenerational wealth gap has widened particularly since 2012, according to the researchers including Hugh Miller, Ramona Meyricke and Laura Dixie ...

Gender wealth gap down to 11%: Roy Morgan

KRISTI CHENG  |  THURSDAY, 8 AUG 2019
The average net wealth gap between men and women has almost halved in the last 12 years, according to the latest Roy Morgan Wealth Report. Statistics from the report show the average net wealth for women today sits at 89% that of men - $400,000, to ...

Australia's wealth gap deepens: Oxfam

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 23 JAN 2018
Australian billionaires amassed a $115.4 billion fortune in FY17, representing a 140% jump since the Global Financial Crisis, according to an Oxfam analysis. The Oxfam Growing Gulf Between Work and Wealth paper found Australia's richest 1% had more ...
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