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Westpac profits down 24%, dividend flat

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 6 MAY 2019
... productivity savings over the full year, of which $146 million were delivered over this half. The bank cut 788 full-time employees in the period. Interim dividend was kept flat at 94 cents and will be paid out on June 24. Dividend Reinvestment Plan will ...

ESG enthusiasm booms post-Royal Commission

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 6 MAY 2019
... found ESG and sustainability practices were being driven by internal forces, particularly pressure from directors and employees, rather than external forces or market pressure. Cottier said fallout from the Banking Royal Commission may be a part of what ...

Lax regulation worsens lost super benefits: ISA

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAY 2019
... billion, up 6% from three years ago. ISA's analysis found many employers are not doing the right thing by their employees who want to make salary sacrifices via their super. About 370,000 employees who made such salary sacrifices have lost $1.5 billion ...

Super startup to relaunch

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 30 APR 2019
... last year, however the project did not continue. Instead, Human Super's co-founder and several of the startup's employees claim on their personal LinkedIn pages to be behind its relaunch as FairVine. A message on the BeSuper website says Human ...

Swiss Re to manage Freedom remediation

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 30 APR 2019
... few months has been very focused on delivering the best possible outcome for all stakeholders including policyholders, employees and shareholders," Freedom chair Pauline Vamos said. She added that the business has not been able to recover from the cessation ...

Study unveils state with largest superannuation gender gap

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 26 APR 2019
New research reveals the state that has the widest superannuation savings gap between male and female employees, at nearly 40%. The study by Women in Super and the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees of large industry superannuation funds ...

Super tax strategies a hot topic

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 APR 2019
... focus on clients looking for ways to reduce their tax bill, by taking advantage of a relatively recent change allowing employees to claim a tax deduction for voluntary personal super contributions." He explained that under the current rules taxpayers ...

Superannuation fund drops fees

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 23 APR 2019
... access to tailored super advice. The industry fund was established in 1986 and oversees the superannuation savings of employees in professional, managerial, administrative and service occupations.

ANZ dismisses alleged job cuts

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 18 APR 2019
... to disclose the extent of its planned job cuts across its branches and technology division, alleged to affect 10,000 employees. The FSU said it understands the bank's plan includes shutting down 300 branches. NAB is the only one of the major banks ...

CBA owes staff $15 million

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 18 APR 2019
... have to reimburse staff after a series of errors resulted in workers being underpaid. Thousands of current and former employees of CBA and BankWest have been underpaid due to accounting and IT errors, the bank claims. FSU national secretary Julia Angrisano ...