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Gender balance is smart economics: CEW

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAR 2023
The financial services and insurance industry ranks among the worst offenders on gender pay gap in the country and it's hurting the economy. The Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) found that women who work in financial services and insurance ...

Stop penalising women: HESTA

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 FEB 2023
... Meanwhile, a mother with two children who is working in the community services industry could retire with up to 7.1% more super if super was paid on the Parental Leave Pay Scheme. "Women already suffer as their earnings reduce by 55% in the first five ...

Super heatmap findings garner mixed responses

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 16 DEC 2022
Industry groups, consultants and research houses have reacted to findings about Australia's best and worst performing super funds. APRA heatmaps for MySuper products were released yesterday, exposing many sub-par products, but some in the industry ...

More alpha gains through ops

ELIZABETH FRY  |  TUESDAY, 13 DEC 2022
Growth in fund complexity and managing assets in-house has triggered intensive efforts by pension funds to beef up their operational and support functions. JANA principal consultant and head of operational consulting, Jo Leaper, says there is a growing ...

Small wins for some pensioners

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 OCT 2022
... where individuals who are saving either inside or outside their super actually gain very little if anything because the more super you have the less pension you get." He would like to see a drop from $3 to $2 per fortnight. "I recognise that would be ...

Retirement fears on the rise: AMP

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 SEP 2022
... has dropped from nearly 60% to just around 40%. The key goals identified include paying off the mortgage and saving more super. "While it's encouraging that more Australian workers are now thinking about their retirement plans...this still only represents ...

Super giants, investment firms join Future IM/Pact

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  MONDAY, 29 AUG 2022
... houses with women at university and in their early career and informs them about a career in investing. Beattie said more super funds and investment management firms recognise the importance of working across industry to build the pipeline of female ...

WA introduces new super laws for de facto couples

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 19 AUG 2022
... Western Australia, super assets could be split so that one party didn't leave the relationship with substantially more super than the other. In Western Australia, only married couples who'd separated were able to split their super. Doray Legal ...

More super, less tinkering: ASFA

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2022
The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) today released research which found 81% of Australians believe more money should be saved for their retirement, not less. When a full list of national issues were proposed to respondents, government ...

Action on super gap slow, small

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAR 2022
... helps address this inequality, I think that is great. It could reduce age pension costs in the future if people have more super." ASFA senior policy adviser Helena Gibson points out that there is support among the public for regulatory change that would ...