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....

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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-...

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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....

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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...

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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....

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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....

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Financial planning

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

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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...

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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....

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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....

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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....

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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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