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Financial services boom rolls on

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JUL 2019
... Australia's financial services hub remains in New South Wales (44%), followed by Victoria (29%), Queensland (13%) and Western Australia (7%). Employment in the sector continues to go from strength to strength. At the start of 2019, financial services ...

Super working in favour of all members

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUL 2019
... average of $132,646. Members living South Australia ($131,914), Tasmania ($126,348), Queensland ($123,636), Western Australia ($119,980) and the Northern Territory ($95,170) tend to have lower super savings. Some regions proved to be outliers. Kooyong ...

Paradice hires from Pengana

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUL 2019
... of experience and was in a similar role at Pengana before. McAleer will cover Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia. He joins Dario Conte who heads the retail distribution and Chris Barnett who is the distribution manager for New South Wales ...

UK fund manager appoints local lead

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUN 2019
... Australia's energy crisis, while the $50 billion super fund Rest took full ownership of the largest wind farm in Western Australia

Industry funds could solve energy crisis: ISA

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUN 2019
Industry superannuation funds believe they hold the key to unlocking Australia's energy crisis. Peak industry superannuation body Industry Super Australia today released a new discussion paper calling for industry funds to take a leading hand in ...

Rest increases renewable energy investment

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 24 JUN 2019
The $50 billion industry super fund will take full ownership of the largest wind farm in Western Australia as it moves to boost its infrastructure portfolio. Rest has agreed to buy out UBS Asset Management's 60% stake in Western Australia's Collgar ...

Sunsuper, corporate super fund merge

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAY 2019
Sunsuper has completed another merger, integrating a 74-year-old corporate superannuation fund. CBH Super, the Perth-based corporate super fund of the CBH Group, was merged into Sunsuper on April 29. It marks Sunsuper's fourth merger in the last ...

Study unveils state with largest superannuation gender gap

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 26 APR 2019
... Institute of Superannuation Trustees of large industry superannuation funds found the gender savings gap is worst in Western Australia, hitting a disparity of 39% between males and females. Female Western Australian workers had an average balance of ...

Finance job opportunities rise post-RC

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 APR 2019
... job vacancies grew slightly while labourers, machinery operators, drivers, technicians and trades all fell. Western Australia recorded the strongest growths in jobs by state, with a 7.1% growth in vacancies. Sunsuper chief economist Brian Parker said ...

Cost of living fears rise: Research

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 APR 2019
... respondents in Queensland were worried about the rising costs of goods and services, 56% in New South Wales, 55% in Western Australia and 52% in Victoria.