GENDER GAP

Financial planning

The financial and insurance services industries had the highest gender pay gap compared to other industries but it had improved year-on-year....

Features

Equal gender representation in the financial services industry remains elusive, as unconscious bias, the gender pay gap, and rigid working conditions prevent women from b...

Financial planning

Women had a lower risk tolerance in their investment portfolio and did not change asset allocations as much as males, which could be a factor in their lower super balance...

Tools & guides

Employer initiatives, government policies, and legislation are all needed to help close the gender gap in retirement. While the Senate inquiry and Budget proposals seem t...

Superannuation

The Government must introduce super policies that take into account gender pay gap, and broken work patterns in women, rather than sticking to policies conducive to full-...

Financial planning

The Government cannot afford to find more money to subsidise family allowances and need to reallocate their resources to help women’s retirement, NGS Super believes....

Features

Jassmyn Goh asks if gender is still an issue in the financial advice industry, either because of clients’ perceptions or the female advisers’ own perceptions in part thre...

Financial planning

An Olympian has called for men in financial services industry to help champion and mentor women in the industry as they are not seen in representative numbers....

Financial planning

The AFA has called on the Government to fund or subsidise a financial literacy program to help close the gender gap in retirement....

Financial planning

The AFA and ISA have polar opposite opinions on lifetime contribution caps when it comes to helping women’s retirement income....

Financial planning

While super reforms are important to help close the gender gap in retirement income, there are other external issues to super that have a greater impact, according to AIS...

Financial planning

Regulatory reform is needed to enable the planning industry to develop of a wider range of retirement income products to address longevity risk, the CBA believes....

Financial planning

NAB has urged the simplification of advice tax deductibility rules as part of a raft of recommendations dealing with economic security for women....

Financial planning

The finance sector has the highest gender pay gap of 30.5 per cent and intervention is needed to support low paid workers, says the FSU....

Financial planning

Women are still playing catch-up to men when it comes to retirement income and it is seemingly not getting any easier. Jassmyn Goh finds out what can help half the popula...

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