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Women receive worse advice: Study

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2020
Financial advisers tend to give female clients poorer advice and recommend riskier assets compared to male clients, a new study shows. Women are significantly more likely to receive undiversified financial advice than men, researchers from the Hong ...

Let's not waste the crisis

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2020
... workforce issues had come to the fore over the last few months, with the economic implications of the pandemic hitting poorer, vulnerable workers harder than most. "It was initially surmised that COVID-19 did not discriminate based on socio-economic ...

S&P kicks companies off ESG index

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2020
... overall ESG score actually fell, but its ranking within its industry group improved indicating other US banks may have put in poorer ESG performances. The S&P 500 ESG Index aims to retain as many companies from the S&P 500 as possible (and thus closely ...

Advice groups criticise rushed legislation

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2020
... merged with Hillross Financial Services association, called the legislation "rushed" and said it was likely to result in poorer outcomes for Australians. TAA chief executive Neil Macdonald said: "We are very concerned that rushed legislation may result ...

APRA releases MySuper heat map

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 10 DEC 2019
... right. "We expect to see the worst performers called out, but are concerned methodological flaws may cast some products in a poorer light than warranted, while other products appear ok when they're not." Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees ...

Culture change must not be a fad: APRA

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 11 OCT 2019
... reviews and the risk governance self-assessments (including identifying the institutions that are demonstrating better or poorer practice), insights from our risk culture deep dives, and, wherever possible, reports from Prudential Inquiries and similar ...

Industry super fund headcounts to swell

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 6 SEP 2019
... harder to find although institutional banking professionals are transitioning. They are primarily driven by the relatively poorer culture at the banks and changes in lending conditions." The trend of super funds moving their investment operations in-house ...

Survey backs SG increases

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 5 AUG 2019
... debate of the benefits of increasing the SG, claiming that after crunching the numbers middle-income earners would end up poorer over their entire lifetime. Raising the SG from 9.5% to 12% would see a 30-year-old worker fork out $30,000, Grattan found. ...

SG debate puts super in a spin

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUL 2019
... praise the recent research of the Grattan Institute, who have claimed an increase to the SG would make middle-income earners poorer over their entire lifetimes. Paterson said Grattan, unlike others, did not stand to gain from an increase in super contributions. ...

Grattan SG claims slammed by industry bodies

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUL 2019
... to 12 per cent would not ease the burden on the age pension, today they are claiming that an increase will leave workers poorer, because it will reduce the amount they are entitled to through the pension," ISA said. "Both can't be true. Not only does ...