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New equality push in investments

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 13 AUG 2021
... The Financial Services Council is leading a new push for gender equality in investment management. The FSC launched the Women in Investment Management Charter, in a bid to improve female representation in the funds management industry. "The FSC surveyed ...

UK pension funds commit to manager diversity

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 AUG 2021
... West Midlands Pension Fund. The creation of the working group and the charter followed Oliver Wyman research that found women account for just 20% of executive committee positions and 23% of board roles across 468 institutions in 37 countries. Further ...

Aware Super, VISSF merger to proceed

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 29 JUL 2021
... teachers. The fund was then known as the Victorian Girls' Schools Association Superannuation Fund and "fought for all women who needed an option that wasn't their husband's bank account". Later renamed to VISSF, the fund has about $900 million ...

Westpac appoints director

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUL 2021
... of international non-government organisation Adara Group. The group's focus is on improving health and education for women, children and communities living in extreme poverty. In 2016 Exel was named Australia's leading philanthropist by Philanthropy ...

Lying rife in life insurance applications

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 9 JUL 2021
... million people have lied on their life insurance application. Men were found to be more likely to be deceitful at 29% than women at 11%. Lying about smoker status emerged as one of the most common reasons at 9% as did mental health at 9%. This was followed ...

Vision Super appoints new chair

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 6 JUL 2021
... was proud to be the first female chair at the fund. "My career has been focused on supporting workers, and particularly women, when it comes to their workplace rights," she said. "Vision Super has a long history as a fund that also supports workers ...

Another senior woman to depart AMP Capital

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 5 JUL 2021
... at NSW Treasury and a vice president, research analyst in infrastructure at Citi. She is the latest in a string of senior women to resign from AMP Capital. Julie-Anne Mizzi, who had spent 17 years at AMP Capital and led its $1.24 billion Community Infrastructure ...

Stop abusers hiding super: AIST

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUL 2021
... (Measures for Consultation) Bill 2021: Superannuation information, along with Women's Legal Service Victoria (WLSV), Women in Super, Economic Abuse Reference Group, Financial Counselling Australia and HESTA. The proposed package of changes would ...

SG rise to benefit 6.7m Australians: ISA

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUL 2021
... $1.5 billion in extra SG payments over the next year to go to the accounts of under-40 workers. By gender, 3.41 million women will receive the SG boost compared to 3.36 million men, according to ISA analysis of tax file data. "Young people will be the ...

Female board participation rises: Research

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUL 2021
The number of women holding board positions in ASX 200 companies has increased but there is still a way to go with women holding chair roles, new research shows. The latest data from the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD) revealed women ...