women

People & Products

Progress towards gender equality in corporate world remains slow

Having over 20% of women on a board, more than 30% in management, and over 44% in the total workforce has a positive relationship with a firm’s returns, according to Robe...

Financial planning

Women’s index up

The Financy Women’s Index has posted its best performance of 2019 in the December quarter thanks to a number of fresh records set in women’s financial progress....

Superannuation

Australian women lose super race

The average woman’s superannuation balance is almost 50% less than a man’s when retirement age is reached, according to the Melbourne Institute....

People & Products

Platform launched to top up super while spending

Super Rewards has been launched to help address the gender gap in super by helping women top up their super while online shopping....

Financial planning

Women undervalue life insurance worth

Women underestimate their life insurance value by 125 per cent ($373,000), while men underestimate it by only 19 per cent ($97,000), on average, according to a study from...

People & Products

New Actuaries Institute president calls for more women in science

The Actuaries Institute has appointed wealth management industry veteran, Nicolette Rubinsztein as its president for 2019. ...

Financial planning

Women’s interest in ETFs growing

The number of Australian women investing online has doubled from 76,000 to 150,000 over the last five years, with women showing particular interest in exchange traded fun...

Financial planning

Does FASEA regime discriminate against women and older advisers?

A dealer group chairman has labelled the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority regime as discriminating against women and older advisers some of whom want to w...

Superannuation

Verve Super launches to drive corporate change

Verve Super, Australia’s first superannuation fund built for women to tackle inequality in the financial system, has launched today....

Superannuation

Super changes seek to shift scales toward women

Federal Women’s Minister, Kelly O’Dwyer, today announced a raft of policies intended to boost superannuation for women as the Government looks to act on financial gender ...

Superannuation

Labor steals super march

The Federal Opposition has earned the widespread backing of the financial services industry for its proposed changes to superannuation policy aimed at improving women’s r...

Funds management

Women in IM held back by “boy’s club” culture

Women in investment management are “seriously concerned” about the lack of equal treatment and opportunities they face based on their gender, according to the University ...

Features

Where are all the women?

The benefits to having more women in senior positions in the financial services industry are myriad for investments, clients and the workplace. Hannah Wootton looks at wh...

Funds management

Industry unites to launch employment equity proposition

Responding to the gender inequity rampant in investment management, Mercer yesterday launched a new proposition aimed at both attracting women to and promoting them withi...