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Future Fund names interim managing director

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2014
... Future Fund exists to meet the government's future liabilities for the payment of superannuation to retired public service workers. The fund has returned 6.9% annually since it was established in May 2006, slightly behind its long-term objective of between ...

Singapore lifts CPF rates

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2014
... designed to defray rising retiree health costs and shore up dampening electoral support. CPF contribution rates at 36% for workers aged between 35 and 50 years are already extraordinarily high by Australian standards though they taper down to 11.5% for ...

(Back) wages

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 FEB 2014
... known as 'Say's Law' (popularised by French economist Jean Say in the 19th century) that says that, "in a free market workers would always be willing to lower their wages to a level where employers could profitably offer them jobs" (Wikipedia). That's ...

SPAA urges concessional cap rethink

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2014
... superannuation adequacy of people with broken work patterns. "The issue of broken work patterns disproportionately affects female workers, who often take time out of the work force to raise families, resulting in many females having inadequate superannuation ...

Oh what a feelin'

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 FEB 2014
... certainly be shed when the last of the carmakers drive out of Australia by the end of 2017 but I surmise many, if not most, workers in the car industry (and allied industries) would have adjusted and/or found alternatives by then. To think otherwise ...

Fear not the fugly jobs report

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2014

Majority of Australians remain wary of technology

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2013
... adopt technology fairly early for career and time-saving purposes." The remaining 14% are students and young part-time workers who are usually fast to adapt to social media styles of technology.

Think Holden, think not

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 DEC 2013
... Adam Bandt! Holden's pull out would "punch a $21 billion hole in the economy," according to the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU). Holden's end "could spell the end of manufacturing in Australia," University of Sydney Business School economists ...

Insto investors urged to challenge private equity ethics

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 10 DEC 2013
... used widely today, has negative social impacts and is widely associated with practices like tax avoidance, retrenching workers, extracting high fees and destabilizing companies. But while superannuation funds and institutional investors in Australia ...

Pension uncertainty for municipal workers in Detroit

HARRY PAGE  |  FRIDAY, 6 DEC 2013
Municipal workers in Detroit may face losing their pensions as the city copes with its $18 billion debt crisis. According to Bloomberg News a federal judge has ruled that Detroit, the largest U.S. city to file for bankruptcy protection, may cut police ...