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Chief economist: What JobKeeper cliff?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAY 2021
... previous month - with business confidence surging to a record high reading of 26 in April from the already above long-term average readings of 17 in March and 19 in Feb (long-term average is 6). More recently, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) ...

ERS applicants $3100 worse off

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAY 2021
... towards the rent or mortgage, and household and credit card bills. According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, the average withdrawals were $7728 and $7536 across the two tranches. The institute said in retrospect, the government should have offered ...

Salaries boosted by skills shortage

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAY 2021
... Half's 2021 salary guide, it's a good time to be looking for work in financial services in Australia with salaries up an average of 5.6%. The most positive forecasts for national wage growth this year is 1.5%, and most recent ABS data showed growth of ...

Charter Hall grows portfolio by $800m

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAY 2021
... PFA Fund will own Albury and the Charter Hall Direct Industrial Fund No.4 will own Alexandria. The portfolio boasts an average WALE of 9.1 years with fixed annual rent increases of between 3.5% and 4% per annum. The acquisition brings Charter Hall's ...

Aged care workers depended on ERS: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAY 2021
... "Nevertheless, more than one in three aged care respondents did not feel appreciated. While there was an increase in the average rating from 6 to 6.6 out of 10 in 2020, aged care had the lowest average rating out of all health and community services ...

Chief economist update: Confidently sustaining the recovery

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAY 2021
... comes as a surprise. Business confidence surged to a record high reading of 26 in April from the already above long term average readings of 17 in March and 19 in Feb (long-term average is six). Further, the survey found that confidence improves in all ...

Life insurers getting into rehab concerning: SCA

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAY 2021
... first time that premium collections. However, claims showed only a marginal drop. Between 2004-15 premiums went up an average 18% per year but in the period 2015-20 they went up only 1% a year. Financial Standard is the official media partner of the ...

Female CFPs more invested in financial planning

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAY 2021
... profession, hiring a director of diversity and inclusion to drive the initiative. In the US, 80% of advisers are male. On average, female CFP professionals have given retirement planning advice to 80% of their clients, while male CFP professionals have ...

YFYS incentive to reduce fees: Hume

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAY 2021
... that there are around 21 products that were considered underperforming by more than 50 basis points over the eight-year average. "But more recently, Treasury has recut those figures by including the administration fees and now estimate it could be around ...

Chief economist update: Inflation scare

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAY 2021
... and lifting ever so gently to 2.1% in 2023 (from 2.0%).... and don't forget the Fed's change of strategy towards average inflation targeting -- the Fed is switching from a point target of 2% inflation to achieving "achieve inflation that averages ...