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Westpac outlines new social initiatives

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 20 JUN 2022
The initiatives have a strong focus on women's financial security, including increasing home ownership rates among females. Westpac has expanded eligibility for its existing Lender's Mortgage Insurance (LMI) Waiver to include more health professions. ...

Mutual sector overcomes pandemic headwinds

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 20 JUN 2022
... just 3% in 2016. Comparatively, ASX 200 companies have showed no improvement over the same period. The representation of women chairs also improved with 21% of the top 100 co-ops and mutuals chaired by a female in 2021, up from 15% in 2016. "Significant ...

Colonial reveals Australia's huge untapped workforce

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUN 2022
... powerful multiplier effect." KPMG research has shown that men aged 45 years old were expected to retire at age 65.2 years and women at 64.3 years old, however, Colonial modelling specifies that a career change could extend working lives to age 70. Colonial ...

Mammoth aggregate returns for ETF investors

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUN 2022
... Australian investors are choosing simple ETFs as opposed to managed funds and LICs." "What's also interesting is that more women are also investing in ETFs. We've found that accounts started by women have grown by 54%." Research indicated that ETFs have ...

Queen's honours highlight industry veterans, ESG experts

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUN 2022
... then chief executive of the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors until 2013. Byrne was also a founding member of Women in Super and remains in the industry today as a director of LUCRF Super. Joe de Bruyn was also recognised for his service ...

Stuart Robert named shadow financial services minister

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  MONDAY, 6 JUN 2022
... account- for every cent allocated, and especially every tax dollar raised from Australians' hard work." She is one of 10 women named in Dutton's shadow cabinet.

Just 14.8% of hedge fund leaders are female: Report

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAY 2022
A report released by IG Prime shows only 14.8% of senior hedge fund management roles in Australia are going to women. Despite the low number, the research highlights the Australian market had higher performance in the past 12 months, and the past five ...

Chalmers sworn in as treasurer

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 23 MAY 2022
... been my dream job - not for me, but for the difference I've had a hand in making to Australians and particularly Australian women." Stephen Jones is the most likely candidate for her portfolio, having held the shadow portfolio since 2019. Other ministers ...

Dump annual super contributions cap: CA ANZ

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAY 2022
... ANZ) wants both major political parties to commit to dumping the annual superannuation contribution cap for the benefit of women. CA ANZ said the existing cap should be scrapped and replaced with a lifetime cap. This, it said, would make the super system ...

ASX board diversity stagnating: Report

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAY 2022
... Board Diversity Index, launched by the Governance Institute of Australia and Watermark Search International, shows more women are moving into board roles at ASX 300 companies but more of them are also holding more than one seat. According to the index ...