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Coalition's super on PPL plan 'deeply worrying'

ELIZA BAVIN | FRIDAY, 2 MAY 2025

... less super than men. Schubert urged a swift policy reversal, saying making super on PPL option would widen the super gender gap. "Telling new mums to cash out their parental leave super payments is a deeply worrying departure from the longstanding bipartisan ...

Payday super on track, but so is the $3m super tax

ELIZA BAVIN | TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2025

... two-thirds of LISTO recipients are women - making a push to lift the LISTO a targeted measure to help close the super gender gap." However, SMC chief executive Misha Schubert still heaped praise on the government for the payday super reforms, which she ...

Gender parity in financial services an economic imperative

KARREN VERGARA | MONDAY, 10 MAR 2025

... metrics by the World Economic Forum. But their representation falls behind in the workforce. According to the Global Gender Gap Index, Australia lags it comes to the economic participation of women behind global peers. In 2006, Australia ranked 12th ...

QIC backs new venture capital initiative

ELIZA BAVIN | MONDAY, 15 JUL 2024

... teams in Queensland are women, and that drops to one in 10 at the General Partner level," Baker said. "We recognise the gender gap is a very real challenge and there is work to be done. Particularly as Queensland's VC ecosystem continues to grow ...

Gender gap to close in 134 years: World Economic Forum

ELIZA BAVIN | WEDNESDAY, 12 JUN 2024

The World Economic Forum released its Global Gender Gap Report for 2024 revealing that, at the current pace, it will take another 134 years - equivalent to five generations - to achieve full gender parity. Globally, the gender gap has closed by just ...

Industry reacts to Federal Budget

ELIZA BAVIN | WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2024

... "It's a watershed reform that will powerfully strengthen retirement savings for Australian mums and help to narrow the gender gap at retirement." Wages boost for feminised industries Schubert said the anticipated pay rises for highly feminised industries ...

TelstraSuper sweetens parental leave policy

JAMIE WILLIAMSON | WEDNESDAY, 28 FEB 2024

... additional $42,000 in retirement. "TelstraSuper recognises the need for more government measures to help close the super gender gap, so as an employer we wanted to explore how we might improve the retirement outcomes for our own employees," TelstraSuper ...

Pay gaps at super funds, fund managers revealed

JAMIE WILLIAMSON | TUESDAY, 27 FEB 2024

... equal remunerations - it does not include transparency regarding pay scales/bands. Betashares' median base salary gender gap is 29.7% while the gap in total remuneration is 37.4%. Its top pay quartile is just 10% female while the lower quartile is ...

Women still underrepresented in asset management roles: FSC

CHLOE WALKER | FRIDAY, 8 DEC 2023

... Workplace Gender Equality Agency's (WGEA) latest scorecard, which assessed 4.82 million employees, the remuneration gender gap trended down 1.1% year on year, the largest drop since it collated data in 2014. On paychecks, it means that for every $1 men ...

Gender pay gap trends down: WGEA

KARREN VERGARA | TUESDAY, 28 NOV 2023

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Future Fund cleared to manage select asset classes in-house

ANDREW MCKEAN

Future Fund chair Greg Combet said that the $300 billion sovereign wealth fund has received the green light from the government to manage a portion of its portfolio internally, speaking at a Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA) event in Sydney yesterday.

Small industry super funds beat giants on trust, service, value

ANDREW MCKEAN

Small industry super funds lead on trust, service, and value for money, according to CoreData's annual member engagement survey.

Investor optimism premature, fund flows in firing line

KARREN VERGARA

While investor sentiment has improved since Liberation Day, geopolitical and tariff uncertainties will continue to deteriorate fund flows for asset managers, Morningstar predicts.

Geopolitical risks force family offices into alternatives, cash: Survey

KARREN VERGARA

Geopolitical uncertainties are forcing family offices out of US equities, diversifying into cash and liquid alternatives, according to BlackRock's annual Global Family Office Survey.

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