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Female access to ERS to widen gender super gap

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2020
... balance. Women aged between 25 and34 withdrew an average of 35% of their balance compared to men at just 29%. In all age brackets women withdrew more of their superannuation compared to men in the same cohort. Women in Super national chair Cate Wood ...

Group premiums rise 34%

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2020
... of losing cover on 1 April 2020," Crescent Wealth said. From April 1, weekly premiums will differ across different age brackets. The news comes after Cbus announced it would be changing the way it calculated insurance premiums due to the cost of implementing ...

Cbus overhauls insurance offering

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 2 MAR 2020
... non-manual and professional. Members categorised as electech pay $2.62. From April 1, weekly premiums will differ across age brackets. A member in the default manual occupation aged 35-49 will pay $3.08, as will a member of the same age in non-manual ...

SG increase will hurt women: NFAW

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 24 FEB 2020
... respect of voluntary contributions, are skewed to male contributors. "As women are underrepresented in the higher income brackets, men are more likely to access the tax benefits available on voluntary savings in superannuation." The NFAW said it is of ...

Stop undermining franking credit refunds: Wilson

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2018
... women and retirees should Labor's proposed reforms succeed. Currently, 70% of retirees over 75 years old (across all tax brackets) receive on average $6347 of franking credits per year, he said. "These individuals would lose this income if they were ...

Financial stress devastating Australian lives: Research

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 5 SEP 2017
... no significant bearing on attitudes toward debt with the research showing similar levels of concern across all income brackets, according to BTFG head of financial literacy and advocacy Bryan Ashenden. "No one is immune, we all have worries about our ...

Wealth begins its blockchain reaction

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 7 AUG 2017
... transaction involved a shipment of 88 cotton bales from Texas to Qingdao, China using a distributed ledger known as Skuchain's Brackets system. In July 2017, ANZ and Westpac teamed with IBM and shopping centre operator Scentre Group to digitise the bank ...

Financial stress rising in Australia

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 19 MAY 2017
... no significant bearing on attitudes toward debt with the research showing similar levels of concern across all income brackets, according to BTFG head of financial literacy and advocacy Bryan Ashenden. "No one is immune, we all have worries about our ...

CBA in world-first blockchain transaction

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 25 OCT 2016
... transaction involved a shipment of 88 cotton bales from Texas to Qingdao, China using a distributed ledger known as Skuchain's Brackets system. The blockchain was used across US-based Brighann Cotton, Brighann Cotton Marketing Australia and their respective ...

Gender super gap widest for women at lower income levels

WHITNEY FITZSIMMONS  |  TUESDAY, 5 APR 2016
... Office (ATO) shows the retirement savings gender gap is highest for women who work part-time and are in the bottom two tax brackets. The gap in super savings is most severe for females on lower taxable incomes; with those earning below the tax free threshold ...