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Competitiveness at risk from STEM fall-off

WHITNEY FITZSIMMONS  |  MONDAY, 21 MAR 2016
... female role model outside of their immediate family who is working in STEM, and less than two in 10 knows of a female public figure in the STEM field. "The pursuit of STEM offers some of the world's best opportunities to be involved in cutting edge innovation ...

Retail managed funds rose strongly in 2015

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAR 2016
The retail managed fund industry saw marked growth in the 2015 posting 7.5% growth in funds under management, according to figures from Plan For Life. The numbers show retail managed fund assets under management grew to $748.8 billion in what the researcher ...

SuperStream sees 70% of member contributions

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAR 2016
Over 70% of members' superannuation contributions to APRA-regulated funds are being sent through SuperStream, according to ATO figures. The new electronic payment standard saw 22.8 million contribution transactions in the September 2015 quarter alone. ...

OneVentures says VC needs scale in Australia

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAR 2016
... stage companies in Australia. OneVentures believes later stage investment peaked at $90 million in 2007, as by 2015 that figure had halved. Widner said sophisticated fund managers will say you can't make money in Australia in venture capital "and they'll ...

China crashlands back to GFC days

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAR 2016
The recent upswing in equity and commodity markets hit the China wall, stalling or reversing following reports of worse-than-expected Chinese trade figures. This is because they reinforce the markets' current trepidation over slowing global growth. ...

HUB24 funds under administration to hit $3bn

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 7 MAR 2016
... under administration (FUA) from $1.7 billion back in June last year to $2.37 billion by year-end. By June this year, this figure will hit more than $3 billion, assuming the Fortnum acquisition stays on track. Second, the group is finally cash flow positive ...

With pretty numbers like these, who needs a rate cut?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAR 2016
At the time of this writing, the A$ is fetching around US$0.7350 - after appreciating from US$0.7175 to US$0.7295 after the National Statistician released the Australian economy's scorecard that showed much higher growth than expected in the last quarter ...

Financial services adding more to economy than mining

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 26 FEB 2016
Financial services contributed more to the economy than any other industry in the 12 months to 30 September 2015, according to a joint Financial Services Council (FSC) and UBS report. Figures in the second annual State of the Industry Report show that ...

Australian wages grow slowest on record but real is better

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 FEB 2016
... bonuses - grew by 2.2% in the year to the December quarter, easing from the 2.3% rate in the third quarter. The latest figure is the slowest rate of growth on the ABS' records that started in 1997. Private sector wages growth decelerated to an annual ...

PROFILE: Mercer chief customer officer Renee McGowan

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 23 FEB 2016
... in the first instance was ask ourselves: 'Who are industry members and how can we serve them?'" The division worked to figure out "how to segment members so you understand groups of them that are similar, how to deliver more personalised ways of communicating ...