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Childcare costs drag women's nest egg

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 8 MAR 2021
... survey respondents advocate for super to be paid on maternity leave. The latest data from the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) reveals that Australia's gender-pay gap declined to 13.4%, a drop of 0.6 percentage points over the last six months. ...

Celebrating women in financial services

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 8 MAR 2021
According to recent data from the Workplace Gender Equality Agency, women hold 14.6% of chair positions, 28.1% of directorships and represent 18.3% of chief executives and 32.5% of key management personnel. Perhaps most concerning of all, only 0.4% ...

Chief economist update: Getting hot, hot, hot

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 MAR 2021
... end of April. Clearly, the global economy is past its worst, which is good news for oil. But as the International Energy Agency (IEA) warned in its February 'Oil Market Report', "the rebalancing of the oil market remains fragile in the early ...

State Street loses Fearless Girl replica claim

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 2 MAR 2021
... commercial purposes." The matter relates to a 2016 statue of a young girl standing akimbo. It was commissioned by advertising agency McCann from artist Kristen Visbal as a part of State Street's campaign to promote its SHE fund (the SPDR SSGA Gender ...

Chief economist update: Oil gush

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2021
... efforts to contain the resurgence of infections and the mutated variant of the virus. These prompted the International Energy Agency (IEA) to downgrade its global oil demand forecast by 0.6 million barrels per day for the first quarter of this year. ...

Magnolia Capital takeover saga continues

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 2 FEB 2021
Magnolia Capital has expressed doubts about the solvency of The Agency Group as the saga over its takeover bid continues. Magnolia said it has accepted the findings of the Takeovers Panel but continues to have concerns about the solvency of The Agency ...

Magnolia bids for real estate agency

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 7 DEC 2020
... latter claims the bid price is too low. Magnolia Equities III has put forth an off-market, cash takeover bid for The Agency Group (AU1). Magnolia is offering four cents per AU1 share in return for 100% of fully paid ordinary shares. The share price of ...

Future Fund slashes fees

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2020
... from 1.62% to 1.13%. The fund classifies direct costs as management, transaction and operational fees it incurs directly. Agency remuneration, which came to $49.9 million, are direct costs for the Future Fund Management Agency staff. Look-through costs ...

Investors take charge in C-suite equality

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 1 OCT 2020
... partners Chief Executive Women, the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors, 30% Club and the Workplace Gender Equality Agency. The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia also welcomes the campaign and is calling on the superannuation ...

Adviser demands answers from Media Super

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 8 SEP 2020
... escalated its processes to push her payments ahead - something that is very rare in Centrelink claims, given the volume the agency deals with. "I think it's really hard to communicate what it really is like unless you have dealt with someone who ...