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Taskforce suggests aged care funding be based on personal wealth

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAR 2024
The final report from the government's Aged Care Taskforce suggests the amount paid by Australians accessing care should be determined by their personal wealth, including superannuation, rejecting the idea of an aged care levy. On the back of the ...

MetLife chair Geoff Brunsdon retires after 13 years

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAR 2024
MetLife Australia has a new chair, while the former chief executive of an industry super fund is also joining the board. MetLife Australia announced the retirement of MetLife Insurance Limited chair Geoff Brunsdon, after serving on the board for 13 ...

Super on unpaid parental leave extended in Western Australia

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 11 MAR 2024
... to improve women's economic security in their later years and assist WA families in making decisions about balancing care and work." WA women's interests minister Sue Ellery said the government is taking steps to reduce the super gap for women. ...

Perpetual adds director, institutional business

ELIZABETH FRY  |  MONDAY, 11 MAR 2024
High-profile investment executive Kate Hillyar has joined Perpetual Asset Management's institutional business team. Hillyar arrives from alternative asset manager HMC Capital, where she worked for 18 months as a director of institutional capital. ...

Retirement saving, investing daunting for women: Surveys

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2024
... general manager of advice, guidance and education Anne Fuchs said while women are getting better at carving out time for self-care, that same mindset needs to be applied to saving and investing, so it turns into a habit. "What we decide to save or invest ...

New campaign pushes for reproductive leave

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAR 2024
Calls for a paid reproductive leave scheme are mounting, as Queensland Unions launches a campaign pushing for new entitlements including preventative health leave. It comes as the Senate investigates issues related to menopause and perimenopause. The ...

Alex Dunnin bids farewell to Rainmaker

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAR 2024
After 26 years, Rainmaker Information's co-founder and Financial Standard 's resident superannuation guru is going back to school - kind of. Today marks Rainmaker executive director, research Alex Dunnin's final day with the business, retiring from ...

ASX settles $1.05m fine for transparency failures

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAR 2024
ASX has settled a $1.05 million penalty after an ASIC investigation found it failed to meet pre-trade transparency rules on 8417 occasions from April 2019 to December 2022. The rules mandate that ASX disclosure specific order details on its trading ...

'About bloody time': Industry responds to PPL super reform

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAR 2024
... announcement. "More than 80% of our one million-plus members are women, many working in typically lower-paid industries such as aged care or early childhood education. Paying super on paid parental leave will help our members add much-needed dollars ...

Government to pay super on paid parental leave

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAR 2024
... a combined 20 weeks to new parents, allowing them to take leave concurrently and removing any assumptions around primary care. "The data is clear - that when women take time out of the workforce to raise children it impacts their retirement incomes with ...