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Waiting and hoping

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 SEP 2011
... been better targeted. The proof in the pudding is then Australian PM Kevin Rudd's A$900 handout to every Australian man, woman and child. Sure there was China and the rest of Asia, and RBA rate cuts, but I would bet that this bit also counted in shielding ...

Sunsuper overhauls insurance in favour of women

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUL 2011
... on average, 38% more insurance cover per dollar of new premiums bought. "We're the only fund to have gender based rates. Woman have much lower mortality rates than men so in most funds the men pay too little and women pay too much," said Tony Lally ...

IMF elects new chair

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUN 2011

WA planning firm wins business award

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUN 2011
... general manager Bronwen Parsons awarded a WA Business News 40under40 Award in 2009 and a 2006 WA Telstra Young Business woman of the year award.

Insurance puts a price on housework

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 APR 2011
... unpaid housework, should they get injured or fall ill under a new insurance product. Suncorp subsidiary, Million Dollar Woman, created Day-to-Day Living Expenses Cover after research found that some 2.1 million women in Australia work unpaid in a domestic ...

Laissez faire

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 APR 2011
... free capital flows to allowing capital control management when other macroeconomic and prudential policy tools fail. She is woman, hear her roar. Not only that, she could soon be the IMF's managing director. So why the French and the Beatles? The answer ...

Super policies shortchange women

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2011
... income. The shortfall is even wider for those who take career breaks, with the research showing that the average Australian woman who takes a seven-year career break, starting at age 30, will have a quarter less on their super account balance than someone ...

Magill grows FUA as client base doubles

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 6 DEC 2010
... Strategists in mid-March. Her achievements include being awarded a Paul Harris Fellow, 2000 Telstra South Australian Business Woman of the Year, 2006 SA Great Business Person of the Year and 2006 EOWA National Finalist - Diversity Leader for the Advancement ...

Board diversity gives greater results

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 12 OCT 2010
... ACSI report found that in eight out of 10 sectors, companies with women directors demonstrate higher ROE than those without woman directors. Additionally, a 2007 Study by Catalyst of boards with three or more women over a four year period found that ...

New website for women and super

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 14 SEP 2010
... breaks or part-time work to accommodate family responsibilities. Even combined with a full or part Age Pension, this average woman's retirement payout would have to be stretched very thin to cover 20 years or more assuming they live well into their 80s ...