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Jobs return to pre-pandemic levels

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2021
Payroll jobs had recovered to pre-COVID levels by early December 2020, according to figures released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). ABS head of labour statistics Bjorn Jarvis said early to mid-December is a seasonal peak for jobs each ...

NSW pocketed $10bn from ERS

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JAN 2021
More than one million New South Wales residents took advantage of the early release of superannuation scheme, withdrawing $10 billion, new analysis shows. Industry Super Australia looked at the popularity of the ER S scheme across suburbs and found ...

Chief economist update: Japan's second state of emergency

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 JAN 2021
... pandemic hit when the number of daily new cases, active cases and daily deaths began rising sometime around late November/early December last year. This prompted the Suga administration to announce a third stimulus package worth around US$708 billion ...

Crackdown on ERS scams continues

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2021
... Australian Taxation Office (ATO) has confirmed it is still working with the Australian Federal Police (AFP) to crack down on early release of super scams which cost Australians over $6 million. Combined, the value of scams rose 23% in 2020, with a rise ...

Platforms start to shake ERS impact

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 15 JAN 2021
Platform inflows are returning to normal as the impact of government's early release of superannuation starts to wear off, according to Credit Suisse. In the September quarter, platforms reported $1.9 billion in outflows. However, if you exclude $3.9 ...

Newton IM adds Future strategies

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 15 JAN 2021
... "Disruptive change is happening at a record pace across all elements of our lives. We believe that by identifying those changes early and investing in them over the long-term we can capitalise on these structural drivers of growth for our clients," he ...

Chief economist update: China on my mind

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 JAN 2021
... provides optimism that covid-19, too, shall pass. Australia may not start inoculating its population until late February/early March but with only a 0.1% total cases of infection per million heads and only 0.004% deaths (based on worldometers.info data) ...

HESTA hikes group insurance premiums again

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 12 JAN 2021
... April 2020, HESTA hiked the standard cover's cost by 1.6% to 13.4% for the age groups below 67. Reilly said it was too early to say what impact COVID-19 would have on insurance premiums. "Changes to HESTA's insurance on 1 April 2020 were impacted ...

Chief economist update: The virus, the vaccine, the variant

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 JAN 2021
... risks to the global outlook remains on the downside, but less skewed toward adverse outcomes than in the October WEO. The early signs of stabilisation discussed above could persist, leading to favorable dynamics between still-resilient consumer spending ...

ASIC slams auditors

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 DEC 2020
... respond to these conditions in their audits," she said. ASIC launched its review into audits in 2019. While it is still early days, the watchdog is aiming to enforce actions against auditor misconduct, delve into conflicts of interest, and force more ...