HESTA
Opinion
Superannuation
What does it mean to be retirement ready?
Here are the levers you should start with to take charge of your retirement.
- by Bec Wilson
Latest
HESTA pressures Australia’s largest companies to adopt gender targets across entire organisation
The $87 billion fund has written to the ASX 300 companies it invests in to commit to ensuring 40 per cent of its staff are women.
- by Sumeyya Ilanbey
Jazmin and her husband work in the same industry, but she has less super
Women retire with about one-third less superannuation than men, but former health minister Nicola Roxon wants the government to pay super on parental leave.
- by Wendy Tuohy
Clean energy could be super for industry funds
Industry super funds are calling for tax and planning changes from all levels of government, so they can invest in the nation’s new energy networks.
- by Shane Wright
Qantas crisis puts social licence back on corporate agenda
The royal commission into financial services and Rio Tinto’s Juukan Gorge disaster in 2020 have also made social licence an important benchmark for investors.
- by Millie Muroi and Clancy Yeates
Top emitters not funding net zero plans, warns Climate Action 100+
Australia’s top carbon emitting companies are making progress towards transitioning to net zero emissions, but failing to back up their decarbonisation plans.
- by Simon Johanson
Analysis
Federal budget
Super on paid parental leave a missed budget opportunity
Women will continue to forgo thousands of dollars in superannuation as long as super is not paid on the Commonwealth Parental Leave Pay scheme.
- by John Collett
The ‘uncomfortable topic’ that worries $70 billion super fund boss
HESTA chief Debby Blakey says this is the year to make the system fairer, including introducing super on paid parental leave.
- by Simone Fox Koob
How a stint in Sweden became the ‘turning point’ for this super fund exec’s career
Kim Farrant was a university student working in Sweden when she realised something about Australia that sparked a pivot in her career.
- by Simone Fox Koob
Analysis
Superannuation
Clear as mud: Super funds’ portfolio disclosures are barely intelligible
Super funds must reveal on their websites the investments they hold, but some of the biggest and best resourced funds are leaving consumers befuddled.
- by John Collett
Opinion
Parental leave
Gender ‘blind spot’ on parental leave needs to end
More than 1.6 million women have missed out on almost $2 billion in super contributions to their taxpayer-funded parental leave.
- by John Collett
Original URL: https://www.smh.com.au/topic/hesta-1n57