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Budget boosts female participation

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 6 OCT 2020
... Parental Leave (PPL) where eligibility has been impacted by COVID-19," he said. The government is giving disadvantaged parents $24.7 million via its ParentsNext program, which helps parents with children under six years old financially.

Young-old wealth gap widest in 18 years

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 17 AUG 2020
... improvements in government services, better products, higher incomes, and improved health. But an increasing majority of parents fear that as today's children grow up, they will be worse off financially than their parents. There are a broad range ...

ISA, Grattan find common ground

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 11 AUG 2020
... generational rift between those "getting by on the meagre aged pension" against their children lumped with paying for their parents' retirements. "The think-tank's retirement modelers have confirmed that of the 2.9 million Australians who have accessed ...

Bond investor sues Australian government

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUL 2020
... Victoria which was impacted by the Black Saturday bushfires of 2009 and the bushfires at the start of this year. Both her parents have jobs that are focussed on environmental issues so O'Donnell grew up with a strong environmental awareness. The ...

Super for women under scrutiny

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2020
... with the wages gap and women earning more for their work," Lusher said. "Career gaps when caring for children and elderly parents will be an issue until men take the options that are already available and are given more opportunities for flexible working ...

ESG continues to outperform: Research

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2020
... compared to its parent indexes for the first quarter of 2020 finding that the ESG indexes comprehensively outperformed their parents MSCI index. AXA Investment Managers undertook an analysis of how leading ESG companies had performed in the first quarter ...

COVID-19 brings trading boom

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2020
... 93.3% of desktop visits to the platform occurred between 9am and 4pm. "Some Australians have felt busier than ever, with parents taking to the task of juggling working from home while helping their children with online schooling," Dale said. "However ...

FICAP sponsors donate $150k despite postponement

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2020
... charities to benefit from the industry's generosity are SHINE for Kids, which supports children and young people whose parents are incarcerated; child disability service Learning Links; and the Starlight Children's Foundation, which works to ...

FEW launches Livestream series

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAR 2020
... week, each day will be dedicated to a different topic. Tuesdays will cover health and wellbeing, Wednesday will focus on parents, Thursday is strictly business and Fridays will be dedicated to fitness. FEW executive director Alex Tullio said: "In times ...

Helping everyone helps women

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2020
... were eligible for the parental leave, with no eligibility criteria relating to service length or earnings thresholds. Parents who adopted or used a surrogate were still eligible for the policy. New fathers at Aviva UK have taken an average of 21 weeks' ...