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Jameson TTB, ANZ partner to deliver housing project

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  MONDAY, 13 FEB 2023
... invests in a diversified portfolio of hybrid-credit opportunities in sectors including social infrastructure such as childcare, seniors living and healthcare. "The profile of this sector is closely aligned to the ESG values of the firm," explained Jameson ...

Stop penalising women: HESTA

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 FEB 2023
... housework, shopping, and food preparation." It added PwC previously estimated that the replacement cost of informal childcare alone would be $409.5 billion per year. "This is an enormous contribution to society that is not properly recognised as essential ...

Jameson TTB links with family office

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 27 OCT 2022
... operations through exposure to transactions in alternative real estate such as aged care, data centres, self-storage, and childcare. Where traditionally we have been straight developers, we see a broader opportunity set with Jameson TTB in the alternative ...

Chalmers delivers on childcare

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 OCT 2022
Federal Treasurer Jim Chalmers has promised to improve early education and childcare affordability for more than 1.2 million eligible Australian families. Labor's "game-changing" investment for families will increase the paid hours worked by women ...

Anchorage Capital buys $46m worth of childcare centres

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 1 SEP 2022
... $46 million. Under the terms of the agreement, Evolve will sell 100% of the shares in the subsidiary which owns 105 childcare centres across New Zealand. Evolve managing director Chris Scott said the rationale for the transaction is largely to accelerate ...

Are Australia's wealthiest tight-fisted?

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 29 AUG 2022
... for the sector - around the estimates of what it would cost to provide subsidised dental care or access to affordable childcare for everyone." Tech leader, philanthropist, and funder of the research Daniel Petre added: "With a very small number of notable ...

Women paid less at every age, rank: Data

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUN 2022
... workplace support for women and men throughout their working lives. These include gender-neutral parental leave policies, childcare subsidies and support, and flexible work policies which include targets for male and female uptake. Wooldridge added that ...

Westpac outlines new social initiatives

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 20 JUN 2022
... purchase their home sooner with a reduced deposit and without the expense of mortgage insurance. "To complement our new childcare sector lending growth plan, we will also be lifting women's participation across our own lending workforce, where females ...

The transforming role of the trustee

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2022
... from these people who are very close to our 400,000 members," she said. "They're nurses, in aged care, disability care, childcare and we've got people on the board who work with those people all the time. "I think we underestimate the insight and value ...

Labor promises cheap childcare, climate action

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 1 APR 2022
In his reply to the 2022 Federal Budget, opposition leader Anthony Albanese has promised cheaper childcare and an investment in renewable energy. Like Treasurer Josh Frydenberg, Albanese focused much of his Budget reply speech on the cost of living. ...