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Former BBY operations lead sentenced

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 9 JUN 2023
... funding, ASIC said. She did this while knowing BBY was not entitled to draw down $4.4 million on 28 June 2013; draw down an average of $3.53 million each day between November 2014 and February 2015; and retain the additional funding from its overdraft ...

Women in Super appoints chair

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 9 JUN 2023
... to the chair role. "Our challenge remains to achieve improved financial security for women in retirement, who retire on average with one third the super of men." She said the immediate focus for the group is fixing the Low Income Super Tax Offset ine ...

Suncorp wage scandal comes to a head

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 9 JUN 2023
... interest, and an additional $1.4 million in superannuation. Individual compensation ranged from $1 to $54,951, but the average underpayment per affected employee stood at $1687. All the remaining underpayments are expected to be completed by a September ...

Super gender balance gap increases

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 9 JUN 2023
... as it crawls toward 21%. During the 2021 financial year men's super balance held $189,892, while women had 21% less on average at $150,922. This gap has increased from 20% reported during 2020. In terms of salaries, men earned 29% more at $79,524 while ...

Super fund ESG options underweight BHP, overweight CSL

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 8 JUN 2023
Super fund ESG options on average have "sharply reduced" exposure to BHP, Woodside Energy and Transurban while being overweight CSL, Telstra and ResMed, according to Rainmaker Information. Rainmaker Information has released its most recent Rainmaker ...

SMSFs continue to fly solo

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUN 2023
... quarter. The survey also found that 30% of trustees under the age of 44 self-assessed their financial literacy as poor to average, and nearly half (42%) of female trustees surveyed indicated the same. One in five SMSFs acknowledge that the prevailing ...

Quality stocks outperform on average: Bell AM

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  MONDAY, 5 JUN 2023
Quality stocks are back in vogue as institutional investors seek out companies with high probability and strong balance sheets amid rising interest rates. Speaking to Financial Standard Bell Asset Management chief investment officer Ned Bell explained ...

The Australian small-cap conundrum: VanEck

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUN 2023
... size, would be characterised as mid-caps in Australia when measured by market capitalisation. "Global small-caps are, on average, two times larger than Australian small-caps, as represented by MSCI World Small Cap and S&P/ ASX Small Ordinaries," the ...

TPB grilled over handling of PwC scandal

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUN 2023
... Court for an order for payment of a pecuniary penalty - something, Pocock pointed out, it has not done. "Why no fine? The average taxpayer faces a fine [for tax avoidance]," she stated. TPB chief executive secretary Michael O'Neill said the Tax Agent ...

It's the year of the raise, says Hays

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUN 2023
... client services manager in Sydney is typically on $100,000 and $90,000 in Melbourne. In financial planning, Hays says the average base salary for a senior paraplanner is $100,000 in Sydney and $98,000 in Melbourne, while a senior financial planner is ...