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Royal commission must look at 'full picture': TWUSUPER CEO

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2014
... enterprise bargaining agreements and the fees it pays superannuation liaison officer, who are representatives of the Transport Workers' Union that encourage members to engage with their superannuation. Sayer defended the fund's employment of super liaison ...

Robots will take over white collar jobs first

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2014
Contrary to the popular belief, robots are more likely to take over the tasks of medium and high-skilled workers, rather than jobs that do not require a university education, a Department of Industry paper determined. "The challenges presented by increasing ...

TAL appoints claims manager

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 DEC 2014
... years across product, pricing, underwriting, indirect sales, operations, claims (both personal injury and domestic lines), workers compensation, technology systems development, supply chain, injury management, legal and training. Coates said that Maini ...

Vertical integration not important anymore: Murray

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 9 DEC 2014
... debate and opened a new chapter in the so-called "war" between industry and retail superannuation funds. The Transport Workers Union (TWU) said yesterday that it is opposed to "the inquiry's plan to fill industry superannuation boards with a majority ...

Banks should hold more capital: Murray

AAP  |  SUNDAY, 7 DEC 2014
... introduction of a competitive process to allocate new workforce entrants to MySuper products. Provisions that deny some workers the ability to choose their own super fund should also be removed. The report says the superannuation system should be improved ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 4 DEC 2014
... AEST on Thursday, the December share price index futures contract was up 11 points at 5,347. US companies added 208,000 workers in November. That followed a revised 233,000 gain the prior month, ADP Research Institute figures showed. In local economic ...

Women-led companies better for investors

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 25 NOV 2014
... services with 81%, education and training with 63% and arts and recreation services with 51%. And while 28% of manual workers are women, 76% of clerical and admin staff are women. Among professional people, however, the balance is even with 52% being ...

G20, FTA and Vlad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 NOV 2014
... billion for China's state-owned companies (SOEs) and that Chinese-owned projects in Australia be allowed to import their own workers. Rightly or wrongfully, I could almost smell the angst. A billion here, a billion there and soon... China (through its ...

ASFA launches blueprint for post-retirement system

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 13 NOV 2014
... of older Australians." Vamos said the system is not delivering as well as it could for women, the self-employed, casual workers and Indigenous Australians. "We must start making policy changes now, to enhance the superannuation experiences of these groups ...

Prime Super appoints fourth independent director

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 10 NOV 2014
... Unlike most industry super funds, Prime Super has a majority of independent directors, with only one union (Australian Workers' Union) and one employer nominated (National Farmers' Federation) director. "There is a growing push in the industry to make ...