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Financial planning

A global survey has found one in four Australians lack the knowledge and skills to make financial decisions, and this is costing the average household over $7,000 each ye...

People & Products

Nominations and submissions have now opened across 29 categories for the seventh annual Women in Finance Awards....

Financial planning

Three female leaders in finance have weighed in on gender diversity and perceptions of women in the industry on a Morningstar panel....

Financial planning

A slowing Australian economy has weakened women’s financial progress in 2022, with the annual FWX score finishing the calendar year in negative territory for the first ti...

Financial planning

There is a lack of willingness on the part of firms in the financial services sector to close the gender pay gap, despite it surpassing 20%. ...

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Financial planning

The gender gap in student financial literacy has been closed, according to a report released by the Australian Council for Educational Research. ...

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Superannuation

The Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees has called for the Superannuation Guarantee to be raised to 12 per cent rather than held at 9.5 per cent in order to p...

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Superannuation

New research has shown that if you’re a woman living in Western Australia or Queensland, the gap between your retirement savings and those of men is on average bigger tha...

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Financial planning

The gender gap in retirement savings starts when women are as young as in their 20s, Monash University has found, as the pay gap impacts their super accumulation even fro...

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Financial planning

Women globally are still suffering from the wage gap, and it has large-scale economic and social implications, according to Calvert Research’s ESG specialist, Erica Lasdo...

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Superannuation

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 ...

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Superannuation

The superannuation gap between women and men has shrunk “considerably” over the last decade, going from a gap of 9.1 percentage points in 2008 to 4.3 percentage points no...

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Superannuation

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...

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Superannuation

Research from the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia has reconfirmed that there is still a “significant disparity” between retirement incomes for men and wo...

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Features

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...

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