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FSC sends final budget message

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 APR 2016
... cap] may be dropped from $30,000 to $20,000 - we don't support that. We think it would make it extremely hard for older workers to catch up, and women and baby boomers to catch up. It just reduces the amount of retirement money they can put in to superannuation," ...

Wealth management left out of data discussion

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 15 APR 2016
... whole new category of financial product - improving engagement, improving risk management and ensuring that Australian workers are receiving the most appropriate financial services for their specific circumstances," Robinson said. Robinson said traditionally ...

NAB and PwC partner for tax app

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 APR 2016
NAB has announced that it has partnered with PwC to provide data support services for self-employed workers and other "microbusinesses," including UberX drivers. PwC's Airtax app, originally targeted at Uber drivers, automates the process of collecting ...

Indigenous workers retire with 27pct less: research

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 4 APR 2016
... Australians, published by the CSIRO-Monash Superannuation Research Cluster. The paper also found indigenous full-time workers will, on average, retire with about 27% less in super savings than non-indigenous workers. The cluster believes that 27% gap ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAR 2016
... The US labour market remains robust. This is the indication from the latest ADP employment report that showed 200,000 workers were hired by private US companies in March - a slight dip from February's 205,000 addition but more than market expectations ...

Industry funds happy SG charge retained

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAR 2016
... time," Garcia added. Research by TRIA commissioned by not-for-profit super fund Cbus found that around one in fifteen workers were missing out on super. Cbus chief executive David Atkin said: "Cbus has always argued that lowering penalties for SG non-compliance ...

Gender pay gap worsening: ACTU

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 7 MAR 2016
... to make things fairer in our families. But when 60% of women aged between 65 to 69 years retire with no super, 70% of workers in the lowest paid occupations are women, and just 17% of Australian CEOs are women, this shouts out that we have major problems ...

Financial services jobs at risk of automation

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAR 2016
A new report released by the CSIRO predicts that 44% of jobs currently performed by Australian workers are at risk of automation, especially routine jobs within the services industry such as in the financial sector. The CSIRO report, "Tomorrow's Digitally ...

FSC reveals six-point super plan

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 29 FEB 2016
... super harder. "Options being debated, including a lower concessional contributions cap, would particularly penalise older workers who are trying hard to save more in their last decade or so of work. "For a policy that is only 24 years old, there is a ...

Australian wages grow slowest on record but real is better

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 FEB 2016
... Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) latest update on wages may have disappointed expectations but also confirmed what workers have been experiencing all along. The Wage Price Index - total hourly rates of pay excluding bonuses - grew by 2.2% in the ...