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Gender balance is smart economics: CEW

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAR 2023
The financial services and insurance industry ranks among the worst offenders on gender pay gap in the country and it's hurting the economy. The Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) found that women who work in financial services and insurance ...

Women-led super funds outperform over medium, long run

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAR 2023
... modelling of the 0.3 percentage point outperformance for a member from age 25 through to 67 sees $43,000 added to their super balance, or about 7% more. If the base average return is 6%, the result almost doubles to $76,000. Diving into the equities ...

SMSF sector hit the reset button: Research

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 28 FEB 2023
... them long to bounce back, how they're used has changed. According to insights from Rainmaker Information, the self-managed super funds (SMSF) sector grew its funds under management (FUM) by 5.8% per annum over the last five years. However, this was slower ...

Poor financial literacy worsens underinsurance problem

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 28 FEB 2023
... behind, according to MetLife. The life insurer looked at the impact of financial literacy on Australians' financial health and wellbeing in its annual Value of life insurance report. It found that young women have lower financial literacy compared ...

California to mandate personal finance studies

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 21 FEB 2023
The US state is spending big on financial education and is close to mandating personal finance courses for high school students in a bid to combat financial illiteracy. Assembly Bill 984, introduced by assembly member Kevin McCarty on February 15, would ...

Commonwealth Super Corp hires former MTAA investments lead

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 17 FEB 2023
... chief investment officer of the merged entity. Before joining MTAA, Brown served as a prudential supervisor a the Private Health Insurance Administration Council for the three years to 2005 Earlier, he worked as an assistant manager of investments at ...

Put controls in place for super funds: Associations

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  THURSDAY, 9 FEB 2023
... financial advisers aren't happy about it. The Quality of Advice Review proposal (QAR) sitting before Treasury would give super funds the green light to provide personal advice to their members regarding their interests in the fund, including the ...

Aussie shares to continue outperformance: Oliver

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 2 FEB 2023
... that the structural relative underperformance since 2009 is likely to be over. His reasons include mean reversion, a new super cycle in commodities, the Australian dollar no longer being expensive, stronger growth potential, relatively high dividends ...

Brighter Super welcomes chief people officer

ELIZABETH FRY  |  MONDAY, 30 JAN 2023
... and Energy Super, and the acquisition of Suncorp's superannuation business, SPSL. Kelsall joins from St Vincent's Health Australia where she was the executive general manager of people and culture. She began that role at the height of the COVID-19 ...

Capital Group kicks off succession plan

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 27 JAN 2023
The global active investment manager has overhauled its executive team and appointed new leaders to roles that will assume the management responsibilities of chairman and chief executive. Investment veterans, chief executive Tim Armour and vice-chair ...