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ClearView enhances ClearChoice products

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  MONDAY, 27 MAR 2023
... to age 65. In addition, the Income Support Booster Option, which increases a client's benefit amount by 20% for the first six months of a claim, will also be available on policies with a 90-day waiting period. This is on top of the existing 30- and 60-day ...

CFA Institute unveils major program overhaul

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 27 MAR 2023
... February 2024 exams, level one candidates can purchase the CFA Program Practice Pack, featuring 1000 new practice questions and six additional mock exams. Lastly, in November 2022 eligibility for the CFA level one exam was extended by a year for those ...

February exam records 67% pass rate

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 27 MAR 2023
More than two thirds of the financial advisers that sat the mandatory exam passed the latest round. Releasing the latest results, ASIC announced that of the 192 candidates who sat the February exam, 128 passed. Sixty percent of them sat it for the first ...

Menopause: The silent economic crisis

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAR 2023
... that could be implemented with minimal effort but would have a significant impact. Introduced in 2021, the super fund offers six paid leave days a year, designing its offering through consultation with the Victorian Women's Trust which was the first ...

Could a four-day workweek save the day?

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAR 2023
... the last 40 years, and a shift in practice can easily be achieved. "Starting in the 1850s, the standard was 10-hour days, six days a week with essentially no holidays, and that has gradually been whittled down to the 38-hour week we see today," he explains. ...

Giving hope: Recent regulatory wins

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAR 2023
... Gender Pay Gap) Bill 2023 requires employers with 100 or more workers to publicly disclose gender pay gap data. This bill has six gender equality indicators against which relevant employers must report, including equal remuneration between women and ...

The unique experience of a single woman

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAR 2023
... future, while others will need to have further rounds. "There is also a yearly storage fee of $500 which is broken up into six-month payments," she says. "On the other hand, women who opt to start a family on their own will also face costs that can vary ...

Early super release scheme a mistake: ISA

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAR 2023
... estimate from ISA indicates a 30-year-old who withdrew the maximum amount could be $80,000 worse off at retirement. One in six working aged people raided their retirement savings, leading to a total of $38 billion in withdrawn funds. According to a study ...

TAA urges active recruitment for industry sustainability

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAR 2023
... revealed that some people graduating from some undergraduate programs are underemployed in the short term - that is, four to six months after graduating," he said. "Graduates of study areas such as mathematics, computing and information systems, accounting ...

Aware Super restructures investment team

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAR 2023
... and infrastructure respectively - and the appointment of a portfolio manager of income and markets. Before joining more than six years ago, Newmarch worked as an investment director at ROC Capital and an associate director at Macquarie Bank. Previous ...