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Skills gap crisis costing Australia $3.5bn a year

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2025
School-leaver job uncertainty and the widening skills gap is costing the Australian economy billions of dollars every year, according to a new report by Year13 and HEDx. The report, which highlights the challenges faced by students in post-school transition ...

Gender parity in financial services an economic imperative

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2025
The financial services industry has made modest inroads with gender parity, and closing the wealth and financial literacy gap, but the reality is accelerated action is needed from the government and private sector to tackle entrenched inequalities as ...

Housing construction lags broader economy by 49%: PC

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 17 FEB 2025
The housing construction sector is lagging Australia's productivity levels by 49% and is helping fuel the affordable housing crisis, a new report from the Productivity Commission reveals. The Housing construction productivity: Can we fix it? report ...

ART, MLC AM, HESTA name directors

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 13 FEB 2025
... Australian Healthcare and Hospital Association board for six years and became the associate dean of the Rural Clinical School at the University of Notre Dame in 2019. Brydon is renowned for his advocacy for children, his work on the social determinants ...

Government to scrap advisers' approved qualifications list

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 10 FEB 2025
... of advisers dropped from 28,000 in January 2019 to fewer than 16,000. "The current education pathway is not sustainable. School leavers are not attracted to the specialised area of study, and it is a significant investment for career changers. Fewer ...

TPG co-founder David Bonderman dies

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2024
... Bonderman graduated from the University of Washington in 1963 with a major in Russian studies and went on to Harvard Law School where he graduated Magna Cum Laude in 1966. While at Harvard, he won a fellowship that took him to Egypt and the Middle East ...

Three universities ditch financial planning courses

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2024
... It comes as Viridian Financial Group co-founder Brett Arnol said with HSC results in New South Wales released next week, school leavers should consider a career in financial planning. "The industry has undergone significant transformation in recent years ...

Gensler to leave SEC in January

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 22 NOV 2024
... term through to 2026. Before joining, he was professor of the Practice of Global Economics and Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He also previously served as chair of the Maryland Financial Consumer Protection Commission and was chair ...

Work-related training boosts pay and productivity: CEDA

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 NOV 2024
... accreditation of work-related training at the federal level; and work to reverse declining literacy and numeracy skills among school students, ensuring disadvantaged children can meet the minimum standards necessary to enable learning in later life. ...

Lack of action on menopause driving gender inequity

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 18 NOV 2024
... stepping down from leadership roles. About 14% said they'd left the workforce early because of menopause; Macquarie Business School estimates this costs Australian companies about $10 billion a year in terms of recruitment and productivity. Meantime ...