5 steps women can take to improve their retirement readiness Morningstar.com.au | 07 Mar 2021Text size
Contributing authors: Shani Jayamanne, investment Specialist, Morningstar Australia, Emma Rapaport, editorial manager, Morningstar Australia and Christine Benz, director of personal finance, Morningstar Inc.
Women s superannuation is not so super. At retirement, Australian women on average have $157,050 whereas men have $270,710 a gap of $113,660, according to data released by the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia in 2018. The gap between women and men extends to younger cohorts too. Women aged 30-34 have balances of $33,750, whereas men have $43,580. The gap is closing, albeit slowly.
Why women are lagging behind
Howard Hirsch of Lexington Law represents Greenpeace
OAKLAND, Calif. (Legal Newsline) – Greenpeace is suing Walmart for offering recyclable plastic products that buyers rarely actually recycle.
The advocacy group filed its case in December in Alameda County, Calif., state court. Walmart recently removed the case to U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.
“The products are advertised, marketed and sold as recyclable,” the complaint says.
“However, the products are not in fact recyclable because consumers do not have access to recycling programs that accept the products, the products cannot be separated or recovered from the general waste stream and sorted into the correct materials bale by material recovery facilities, and there are no end markets to reuse the products or to convert the products into a material that can be reused or used in manufacturing or assembling another item.”