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Super baby bonus could end inequality

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 28 FEB 2022
... affordability of childcare. Universal access to quality, flexible early childhood education and care until children start school would help boost workforce participation for women with young children, HESTA said. Women's workforce participation rate ...

ATO underestimates SMSF performance: Report

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 FEB 2022
... performance, with evidence suggesting that this gap is widening. Commenting on the research, University of Adelaide Business School lecturer in finance George Mihaylov said that as far as he was aware, this is the largest dataset that's ever been ...

Foundation rolls out financial literacy program for students

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 10 FEB 2022
... Commenting on the initiative, Ecstra chief executive Caroline Stewart said that Talk Money is designed to help Australian school students learn money lessons for life. "It provides them with the tools to be confident talking about money and to make informed ...

New study on precious metal hedge

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 4 FEB 2022
... topic of how precious metals act as a hedge and/or diversifier in equity portfolios. Jose Arreola Hernandez from Rennes School of Business in France and Sang Hoon Kang and Seong-Min Yoon from Pusan National University in the Republic of Korea recently ...

Aware Super retains Link

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 17 JAN 2022
Link Group will continue to act as the administrator for the Victorian Schools Superannuation Fund following its merger with Aware Super. Aware will retain Link as the administration provider of VISSF's defined benefit funds. The Aware Super and VISSF ...

Advice firm targets teen financial literacy

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 7 JAN 2022
A financial advice firm is tackling high school graduates' poor financial literacy head on in a bid to equip them with essential wealth skills for the future. Purpose Advisory director and adviser Tristan Scifo has launched More than Before, an online ...

One million visits to YourSuper comparison tool

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 7 JAN 2022
Minister for superannuation Jane Hume has lauded the government's YourSuper comparison tool as a success, with one million visits. "Australians are taking charge of their own super like never before thanks to reforms passed by the Morrison government," ...

What you read in 2021

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 17 DEC 2021
In another year of lockdowns and uncertainty, Financial Standard 's most read stories show all eyes were on the changing nature of the superannuation sector. Industry consolidation and the Your Future, Your Super performance test underscore the ...

The dark side of super switching: Research

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 DEC 2021
... can be done to make it easy for super funds to guide and advise members' financial decision-making." Griffith Business School's senior lecturer Kirsten MacDonald added: "While better superannuation switching access and financial control is a good thing ...

Rainmaker executive awarded prestigious scholarship

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 3 DEC 2021
... role that the media industry plays in financial literacy." Rabah will use her scholarship to study at Harvard Business School in Boston, undertaking the Authentic Leader Development Program. Rabah said it is both a privilege and an honour to receive ...