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Women on boards tracking well: AMP Capital

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAR 2016
AMP Capital is satisfied the cultural shift to increase gender diversity on Australian listed company boards is heading in the right direction but says the challenge is not complete. Releasing its latest corporate governance report AMP Capital said ...

Australian wages grow slowest on record but real is better

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 FEB 2016
The Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) latest update on wages may have disappointed expectations but also confirmed what workers have been experiencing all along. The Wage Price Index - total hourly rates of pay excluding bonuses - grew by 2.2% ...

Dear Chancellor

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 FEB 2016
"UK inflation climbs to highest in a year" (Irish Times). "UK inflation nudges up to 12-month high" (Financial Times). "UK inflation gathers steam in January" (Business Spectator). In a world where low and/or declining prices have become the norm, headlines ...

Paying women more super not the answer

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 15 DEC 2015
... time,'" Riegelhuth said. Multiforte Financial Services director Kate McCallum said an incentive such as the previous pension bonus scheme had a multi-dimensional impact. She said it encouraged women to stay in the work force for longer and when they ...

ANZ pays $13m to saver customers

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 12 NOV 2015
... million to 200,000 customers using Progress Saver Accounts (PSAs). The compensation is being paid due to ANZ failing to apply bonus interest to these accounts. PSA customers who satisfy withdrawal and deposit requirements each month are entitled to bonus ...

Paying super on parental leave could help gender gap: Mercer

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 5 NOV 2015
A quarter of Australian businesses don't pay superannuation whilst employees are on parental leave, adding another hurdle to addressing the super gender gap according to Mercer. The global investment and retirement consultant released its 2015 Gender ...

PROFILE: Blue Sky managing director Mark Sowerby

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2015
Slathered in Vaseline and leaping from a tiny pilot boat to embark on a gruelling 14 hour swim of the chilly English Channel might seem a far cry from running an alternative investment business out of sunny Brisbane, but Blue Sky founder and managing ...

Vision Super intra-fund advice soars

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2015
Vision Super has recorded a massive increase in financial advice given to its members over 2015. Over the past year, Vision Super's financial advice team has had 2,422 meetings with members - a 70% boost from the 1,431 meetings in 2014. General advice ...

Highest paid industry CEOs revealed

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2015
... means that there are currently no women among the country's highest paid chief executives. ACSI found that the average cash bonus for ASX100 chief execs was $1.35 million for the year, up more than 10% from the year before. The proportion of chief executives ...

Below benchmark performance hurts Platinum

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 21 AUG 2015
... not receive profit share plan (PSP) incentive payments. However, chief investment officer Andrew Clifford did receive a bonus "related to his role," Neilson said. Clifford was paid $856,991, 50% of which were bonus payments, significantly less than in ...