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Aussies reevaluate retirement prospects

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2020
... male peers, with 33% no longer feeling confident about their retirement (compared to 25% for men). A larger proportion of women did not have an investment portfolio outside of super (32% compared to 17%), also potentially leaving them with less income ...

FSC reveals life insurance data

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2020
Cancer is still the biggest killer of both men and women, while women are more likely to claim income protection for mental health reasons, according to the Financial Services Council. The FSC said it is using Life Insurance Awareness week as an opportunity ...

Australian Unity names chief executive

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 27 JUL 2020
... NAB, Yates worked at ANZ as an executive director of institutional banking, whilst also forming not-for-profit organisation Women in Banking and Finance. She also spent 10 years with Citi as its corporate bank's head of utilities and infrastructure ...

Domestic violence super reforms stall

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUL 2020
... domestic violence perpetrators from hiding their super assets from their spouses. Women's Legal Service Victoria (WLSV), Women in Super (WIS), the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) and HESTA have called on the ATO, Treasury and ...

12 charged in $17m fraud

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2020
... men were arrested in Queensland who are expected to be extradited to NSW to face court in the near future. Two men and two women were arrested in Sydney, while a man in the ACT was served with a court attendance notice to face court in NSW in September. ...

Morrison's legacy will be retirement poverty: ACTU

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2020
... line," ACTU assistant secretary Scott Connolly said. "This scheme is having a disastrous impact on the retirement savings of women and young people, but is being used as a tax minimisation tool by the wealthy." He said that the reason 2.5 million Australians ...

LGS certified carbon neutral

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2020
... the projects deliver community benefits in the form of employment opportunities for the local population, especially for women in enterprise. "They also raise living standards through clean water and solar energy as well as introducing innovations into ...

Financial institution charged over Epstein scandal

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2020
... including: payments to individuals who were publicly alleged to have been Epstein's co-conspirators in sexually abusing young women; settlement payments totaling over US$7 million, as well as dozens of payments to law firms totaling over US$6 million ...

Rio Tinto decision exposes limits of super engagement

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2020
... during Toth's tenure, including the destruction of an area nearby a sacred site in the Northern Territory known as Two Women Sitting Down. OM Holdings was convicted by the Darwin Magistrates Court in 2013 over one count of desecrating a sacred site ...

Super for women under scrutiny

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2020
A financial adviser has questioned whether superannuation needs to be tailored to women specifically, as female focussed funds - such as Verve and Fairvine - grow in popularity. Lusher Financial Services adviser Christine Lusher said she does not think ...