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Growth of women on boards painfully slow: ACSI

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 30 OCT 2015
... hold less than 23% of directorships in the ASX100. ACSI chief executive Louise Davidson said although the proportion of women on boards has doubled over the past 10 years, the rise is painfully slow. "Progress is disappointing in the ASX101-200, with ...

Board gender diversity further scrutinised by ACSI

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2015
... gender diversity. The guideline dealing with board gender diversity comes on the back of a 2014 ACSI policy targeting 30% women on each ASX 200 board by the end of 2017. ACSI chief executive Louise Davidson said since the policy launch and direct communication ...

Australian among most influential investment consultants

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 28 SEP 2015
... retaining that spot in 2015. She is one of only nine consultants around the world to achieve that feat, one of only six women on the list and the only Australian consultant featured. Last year John Coombe of JANA Investment Advisers was selected at number ...

Women fail to break into the industry's last boys club

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 8 SEP 2015
... outperform those who are male-only. At a time when the financial services sector is pushing to increase the amount of women on boards and in executive positions, the issue of female fund managers remains unspoken and under-researched. There is no research ...

ANZ addressing women's financial futures

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUL 2015
... week less than men, or $15,000 a year. Over an entire career, this gap extends to around $700,000. It also revealed that women on average earn 18.8% less than men, around 90% retire with inadequate savings to fund a comfortable lifestyle in retirement ...

Senior female execs needed: BlackRock

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2015
... the presence of women in those roles should improve. She added that the fact that there is an increasing presence of women on boards should make it easier to increase the number of women executive directors and in key management positions. "The lack ...

First Super appoints independent director

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2015
... twelfth director on the board and increasing the number of independent directors from one to two. There are also now four women on the board. Broad is currently director of Women's Health Victoria and the Hepburn Community Wind Farm. First Super chief ...

Women outperforming all men boardrooms

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2015
A recently launched gender diversity index is showing ASX200 companies who have more than 25% of women on their boards are outperforming all male boardrooms by more than 7% per annum. The Diversity Index is produced by investment manager Infinitas and ...

Super performs well in board gender diversity index

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2015
... companies and Cooperative Research Centres, Super was one of only four sectors to show gains of more than 5% in the number of women on boards since 2013. Women on Boards, the body behind the index, has been focussed on improving female board representation ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 MAR 2015
... the KangaNews DCM Summit. The Australian Bureau of Statistics releases new motor vehicles sales for February while the Women on Boards 2015 Boardroom Diversity Index is also due out. In equities news, Retail Food Group has an extraordinary general meeting ...