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Sexism in the City: UK financial sector slammed

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAR 2024
... report on their gender pay gap - currently, this only applies to companies with more than 250 employees. Further, those businesses with a large gender pay disparity should be required to explain the gap and publish an action plan, the report recommends. ...

Government promises transparent financial services regulation

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAR 2024
... Finance Industry Council of Australia collaborated with the government to introduce the reform. Lawrence pointed out that the small size of some customer-owned banks compared to their shareholder-owned counterparts makes it harder to keep up with the ...

Female fund managers boast 1.2% alpha

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2024
... Stevanovic, Yarra Capital Management portfolio manager and director Katie Hudson, and First Sentier Investors head of Australian small and mid-cap companies Dawn Kanelleas. The trio scored highly on the analysts' People rating, one of three assessment ...

Financial services 300x more likely to get hacked: Expert

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 23 FEB 2024
... valuation." Jack said it's not a matter of 'if' but 'when' an attack will happen. "Now I've heard this many times from small business owners, 'I'm just a small business, who's going to go after me?'" Jack said. "But I can tell you this ...

AI mania will underwhelm advice: Finura

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JAN 2024
... advice offerings to members, you would expect an explosion of new digital advice offerings in 2024/25." Elsewhere, once small fintech players have now become behemoths. HUB24 and Netwealth's combined market capitalisation is now equivalent to AMP ...

Quinn family rescues beloved Sara Lee

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 30 JAN 2024
... Sara Lee employees will retain their employment on the same terms and conditions. Klark and Brooke Quinn said: "We are a small Aussie family that shared in the tradition of having Sara Lee apple pie and vanilla ice-cream every Sunday night at the dinner ...

AFCA reports unprecedented complaint spike

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 9 JAN 2024
... The Australian Financial Complaints Authority (AFCA) received a record 102,790 complaints from consumers and small businesses unable to resolve disputes with financial firms in 2023. This marks the first time Australia's financial dispute resolution ...

AFCA amends consumer compensation caps

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 9 JAN 2024
... maximum compensation amount a complainant can apply for is $1.263 million, which was previously $1.085 million. For small businesses and primary producers, a credit facility cannot exceed $6.317 million -previously $5.425 million. These limits apply ...

What you read in 2023

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 15 DEC 2023
... largely set in motion by the closure of FairVine Super, the women-focused fund that closed in May 2022 due to its incredibly small size. 9) AMP restructures wealth management, chief exits (May 29) In restructuring its local wealth business, AMP made ...

BT signposts key issues for advisers in 2024

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 14 DEC 2023
... clients, with high inflation rates and reduced consumer spending in some sectors are biting into the revenues of small businesses - prompting business owners to ease cash flow for their business by using their SMSFs to buy their commercial properties ...