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Budget aims to please women

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2022
... scheme - which currently allows a mother and partner to take 10 weeks of paid leave each. Under the updated scheme, single parents can take the full 20 weeks and families can divide the 20 weeks amongst carers as they wish. This includes the ability ...

Budget to back aspiring homeowners

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2022
... year's budget. The Family Home Guarantee is specifically targeted to single parent families, assisting eligible single parents with children to buy their first home or to re-enter the housing market with a deposit of as little as 2%. Frydenberg reported ...

Generational home ownership gap widens

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAR 2022
... compared to 62% of Baby Boomers and 42% of Gen X. It also found that while 92% of Baby Boomers were no longer living with parents by their 30 th birthday, only 72% of Millennials and 75% of Gen X can say the same. The analysis shows that those living ...

Super should help secure home loans: Inquiry

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAR 2022
... housing options for low to medium income earners, people experiencing homelessness, women escaping domestic violence, parents and children," the report says. Other recommendations include all states and territories scrapping stamp duty in place of a ...

Action on super gap slow, small

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAR 2022
... reform to address inequality - a "carer's credit" on unpaid parental leave, which would see super balances topped up when parents are not earning an income. Other members of the industry have suggested insurance premiums shouldn't be charged in super ...

Foundation rolls out financial literacy program for students

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 10 FEB 2022
... earning, tax, superannuation and building towards financial independence. The program is provided at no cost to schools or parents or carers. Ecstra is fully funding the program as part of its work with government, community organisations, educators ...

What super funds should know about Gen Z

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 NOV 2021
... person's investment toolkit, and it's being disregarded." Additionally, the research found free financial advice from parents was the most popular source of information for 56%, closely followed by friends at 36%. 'Finfluencers' (financial influencers) ...

End of the road for Dollarmites

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 25 OCT 2021
... and subsequent decisions by some state and territory governments to take that choice away from individual schools and parents," CBA group executive of retail banking services Angus Sullivan said. "For 90 years, the Commonwealth Bank has been supporting ...

JPMorgan Chase acquires financial planning platform

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 24 SEP 2021
... over 6000 institutions across the US. It caters to those between the ages of 17 and 24, students older than 24, their parents and guardians and low-to-moderate income households. It enables students to apply for financial aid, provides advice to those ...

What will it take to get super on parental leave?

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 20 SEP 2021
Employers and the government are failing parents, costing mothers $1.6 billion in superannuation, according to new research from Industry Super Australia. Many employers, even large companies, still fail to pay parents parental leave - forcing them ...