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BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 NOV 2015
... forecasting or making decisions about what to do in the future." The trend estimate shows employment rising to 11,815,400 workers in October from 11,796,600 in September; the number of unemployed dropping to 764,700 from 768,000 and "Monthly hours worked ...

Super non-compliance to cost $44 billion

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 16 NOV 2015
Employer non-compliance with superannuation entitlements could cost workers $44 billion in retirement savings over the next decade. This is the conclusion of Cbus research, which chief executive David Atkin argued highlighted "the need for Government ...

NAB and FPA back super in PPL

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 NOV 2015
... roles," the NAB submission said. The FPA said the government should extend caps on concessional contributions to enable workers with broken employment patterns to maximise their superannuation account balances. Other major proposals from NAB include ...

PROFILE: REI Super chief executive Mal Smith

DARREN SNYDER, LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 NOV 2015
... become more specialised skills." In 2004, he had the opportunity to join REI Super, the industry super fund for real estate workers, as a chief executive or, as the role was known at the time, fund secretary. "Having worked in a big consulting firm for ...

Six point five is PM Li's new like

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 OCT 2015
... More births, more babies to buy diapers and milks and what-nots for, more consumption and in time, a larger pool of young workers to care for the aged. More Chinese on the planet! Though it won't be until after nine months - allowing for pre-mature and ...

HESTA chief advocates better tax reform

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 29 OCT 2015
... the super savings gap, largely experienced by disruptions in women's working life. "Our members are nurses, aged care workers and child carers, who earn modest wages," Blakey said. "They, along with many other working women, won't benefit from these ...

IAG appoints COO from Suncorp

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 29 OCT 2015
... personal insurance. He has held numerous other roles at the $17 billion insurance group since 1994, including general manager workers' compensation and group executive commercial insurance. At IAG, Milliner will report to Peter Harmer, who will replace ...

Australians don't want government to step in on super: research

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 26 OCT 2015
... on the Age Pension to fund their retirement. When probed on their attitudes toward accumulating superannuation, older workers appear to have reservations about self-managed super funds (SMSFs) as a savings model. Of the small number (one in 10) who are ...

PROFILE: SuperBPO chief executive Michael Houlihan

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 23 OCT 2015
... from his role at SuperBPO, Houlihan is also the chief executive at Combined Super - a Victorian-based industry fund for workers in education and related sectors. It has about $650 million in assets under management and more than 10,200 member account ...

TWU attacks retail super funds over board governance

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2015
The Transport Workers' Union (TWU) is calling on the federal government to abolish retail superannuation funds instead of bringing in changes which will "damage the high-performing industry super system." In a scathing statement about the debate on ...