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UK takes steps to remove gender pay gap

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAR 2022
... for some time. In 2017 it made it mandatory for UK organisations with more than 250 employees to disclose their gender pay gap. This information came back to haunt many of these companies this week, with a Twitter page called Gender Pay Gap Bot retweeting ...

Perennial expands private markets offering

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAR 2022
... partner with the very best founders and companies on their complete journey," Sohn said. He added that there is an increasing gap in the domestic market at the private growth stage, and that this is what Perennial is looking to address with the new fund. ...

Flexible work expectation gap widens

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAR 2022
... demonstrated," she said. A Swinburne University of Technology survey of more than 1000 white-collar workers found that an "expectation gap" is emerging between workers and organisations. Some 43% of workers said an employer that does not offer flexible ...

Advisers can help female clients 'break the bias'

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAR 2022
... Sarah Conte said. "With the workplace gender equality agency citing it will take a quarter of a century before we close that gap, I think women have the right to say, 'What more can be done?'" Conte said. "What more can be done at a societal ...

Super Fierce targets gender wealth gap

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAR 2022
The scalable advice platform aimed at addressing the gender wealth gap has officially launched this International Women's Day, with narrowing the superannuation its primary focus. The Super Fierce platform primarily compares superannuation products ...

Alpha females

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAR 2022
... And 15% of global companies have 30% or more of women in leadership. But Australia could be leading the race to close the gap, as it has more women at the top. In the ASX 200, most companies have women in leadership; an average board is 33% female. The ...

Action on super gap slow, small

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAR 2022
... small wages, has finally been scrapped in a win for women - but this is just one small step in addressing the significant gap in super savings between men and women. "The $450 per month SG threshold penalised an estimated 300,000 Australians - two thirds ...

New digital solution to close advice gap

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAR 2022
SWU Group has partnered with OpenInvest to make high quality investment products and services more readily available. The online investing solution, called SWU Online Invest, is being delivered via a partnership with Melbourne-based fintech investment ...

Boardroom diversity benefits investors: eToro

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAR 2022
... of both the company's executives and board of directors must be women. Companies included in the portfolio include Disney, GAP, Uber and Paramount Global. The launch of this portfolio is part of eToro's wider initiative to support women in business ...

Magellan loses more investors, FUM slumps

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 28 FEB 2022
Investors continue to abandon Magellan Financial Group as funds under management currently dip below $80 billion. Some $18.3 billion disappeared from the ASX-listed fund manager between December 2021 and February 23, as total FUM now sits at $77.2 billion. ...