Can’t afford a comfortable retirement

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Can’t afford a comfortable retirement. A huge 47 per cent of Australians between 26 and 64 – 6.1 million people – are not likely to have enough money, even accounting for superannuation, assets and the aged pension, to maintain a “comfortable standard of living” in retirement. That’s according to CommBank’s ‘Retire Ready Index’, which is […]

Employees want mental health at work taken seriously

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Employees want mental health at work taken seriously. Australian employers don’t understand their employees’ major life concerns, according to a study of 500 workers and 300 bosses released in November 2016. Insurance company Metlife’s  Employee Benefit Trends Study found that Australian bosses dramatically underestimated the importance of staff concerns about mental health issues. Depression, anxiety, […]

Single Women Leading Men in US Home Ownership

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Single Women Leading Men in US Home Ownership. The latest research into women’s struggles with money, Mary Pilon of Bloomberg notes, can make for dreary news. “Women earn less than their male counterparts, pay harsher workplace penalties for pursuing parenthood, struggle more with debt, and save less for retirement,” Pilon wrote of the situation in […]