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HESTA asks Retirement Income Review to consider ERS

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2020
... assistance for our members but if urgent action is not taken these young women risk facing a greater vulnerability to poverty as they age," Blakey said. "We already know that women over the age of 55 are the faster growing group of people experiencing ...

A man is not a plan: Rice Warner

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2020
... working patterns and lower lifetime income," Buckley said. "A growing number of women older than 55 face the dilemma of a poverty-stricken retirement, as a result of caring for others." "We have a unique opportunity now to act to change the structural ...

Super tax concessions out of hand

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 24 FEB 2020
... themselves grown rapidly and look to soon cost taxpayers more than the aged pension itself." Grudnoff added such high rates of poverty in retirement are in part because so much of the taxpayer funding for retirement incomes "goes to high income households" ...

Opt-out super to hit workers: ISA

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 21 JAN 2020
... nation's bottom line. "This dangerous proposal could not only condemn more than one million New South Wales workers to poverty in retirement it lumps them with a bigger tax bill now," ISA chief executive Bernie Dean said. "The numbers don't lie. Opt-out ...

Why women struggle in financial advice

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 16 JAN 2020
... industry is essential. "Right now, the future of a woman who ends up single at retirement could mean that she ends up in poverty," she said. "Helping someone into financial empowerment could be saving their life. We need to be in the thick of it to make ...

Credit Suisse backs sustainability amid Federer furore

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 13 JAN 2020
... McAuley maintained that fossil fuels should still be included. "Without fossil fuels the world will grind to a halt and poverty will grow," he said. "It is difficult to exclude the use of fossil fuels completely. For example, you may exclude mining companies ...

2020: Year of the fragile economy

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 9 JAN 2020
... emerging economies using price controls, which she said "despite good intentions, can dampen investment and growth, worsen poverty outcomes, and lead to heavier fiscal burdens". While inflation has declined in many of these emerging economies, the World ...

UK pension fund expands offering, climate risk policy

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 7 JAN 2020
... the Paris Agreement was set at 2C - this will still significantly worsen the risk of drought, floods, extreme heat and poverty for hundreds of millions of people. Setting a 1.5C target is a stronger goal which we will push hard to support," Nest head ...

Pendal appoints impact investment team

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2019
... Development Goals, which requires $5-7 trillion in investments annually to address global challenges like climate change and poverty by 2030. "The impact investment market is currently worth over half a trillion US dollars and there is an obvious and ...

FIIG makes first impact investing play

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 11 NOV 2019
... to raise $20 million to provide financial services - mostly through microfinance loans - to families living below the poverty line in developing countries. FIIG's services in arranging the bond have been provided pro-bono, with all fees to both VisionFund ...

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Treasury responds to Debelle's review into the AOFM

KARREN VERGARA
Treasury has responded to the Guy Debelle-led review into the Australian Office of Financial Management (AOFM), agreeing to all six recommendations.

Bravura ups guidance, reports earnings increase

RIDDHIMA TALWANI
Bravura Solutions informed investors cost discipline will protect its full year earnings result after a client migrated to a Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) early in the year.

MaxCap hires from Vanguard, AustralianSuper

MATTHEW WAI
MaxCap has welcomed two senior directors, including a portfolio manager from Australia's largest super fund, reporting to the recently named chief executive Kylie Robb.

Zenith snags mandate from Granite Bay

MATTHEW WAI
Granite Bay Private Wealth has selected Zenith Investment Partners to support their investment governance and due diligence.

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