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ISA renews calls for super to be paid with wages

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 30 JAN 2023
Changing the requirement to pay super with wages will drastically reduce unpaid super and give four million plus workers better investment returns, according to Industry Super Australia (ISA). In its pre-budget submission, ISA said that the "outdated ...

Chief economist update: V in US recovery at risk

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2020
The US labour market continues to get betterer and betterer. The US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported that total non-farm payrolls rose by 1.37 million in August - in line with market expectations and marked the fourth straight month of increase ...

BlackRock and Microsoft develop retirement platform

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 8 JAN 2019
... investment products" the firm will design and manage. BlackRock said its new products would be designed to provide US workers with a lifetime of income in retirement. The firm said the new products would be accessible through the employer workplace savings ...

Indigenous workers retire with 27pct less: research

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 4 APR 2016
Indigenous males are likely to retire with a superannuation balance matching non-indigenous females who have no career break according to new industry research. This finding comes from the latest paper examining retirement adequacy for indigenous Australians ...

401(k) plans to reach $6trn by 2018

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2015
... particularly within the private sector, 401(k) accounts will likely be the primary savings vehicles for a large portion of US workers. Asset managers are sharpening their focus on defined contribution investment-only (DCIO) opportunities, refining their ...

Goldi-jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 APR 2011
The financial markets' performance over the first three months of the year showed what investors feared most - and this is, getting run over by a rampaging bull. There were a number of factors that could have easily spooked investors into hiding -- ...

Lookin' good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 SEP 2010
Is this it? Is this the one? Is this the beginning of the end of uncertainty and the start of Wall Street's rebound to higher highs? Over the past oh so many months, we've seen strong daily rallies on Wall Street almost always followed by investors ...

Bending it like Bernanke

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 AUG 2010
You asked for it! Mo' money's in the mail. Bernanke bends to the markets. Just when we thought we've seen it all, along comes the Fed kowtowing to the whims of the financial markets. Yes Virginia, the Fed announced that it would reinvest the proceeds ...

Not a jobless double-dip

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 AUG 2010
Double-dip here we come! Yes Virginia, we're on our way back to the abyss. This, if you believe the talking heads and the written words on the financial media after the latest update on US employment hit trading screens last Friday night. The numbers. ...

Squared

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 AUG 2010
Be there or be square! No Virginia, investors weren't there on Wall Street last night, but they've more than squared (their positions). This morning's news tell the story of selling on Wall Street because of -- according to The Age - " A surprisingly ...
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