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Consumer at centre of this year's AFA Conference

STAFF REPORTER  |  FRIDAY, 20 SEP 2013
... at the Royal Pine on the Gold Coast. Dr Sagolla will share with delegates the story of how, as employees, he and his co-workers co-created the social medium, which today has more than 100 million users worldwide, only to be laid off. With the Future ...

Thousands of finance workers face axe: FSU

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 30 AUG 2013
Several thousand jobs could be at risk in the financial services industry, despite the sector being in strong shape according to the Finance Sector Union of Australia (FSU). The media and communications manager at the FSU Leanne Shingles said that last ...

One-third of US federal workers could retire

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 29 AUG 2013
Recovering pension account balances in the US is triggering a rush of US federal employees to retire, with as many as one-third of some agencies expected to leave their jobs. Helping to restore confidence in their pension funds is that the US pension ...

FOMC - Fed Outs Market Confusion

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 AUG 2013

Run China run

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 AUG 2013

Energy Super CEO named fund executive of the year

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 8 AUG 2013
... superannuation industry. It is a tribute to the fantastic work of the Energy Super team." Energy Super is the industry fund for workers in the energy sector. It has more than 48,000 members and $4.2 billion in funds under management.

Investors demand more clarity on carbon exposures

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 8 AUG 2013
... have time to talk about fund policy and business processes anymore. We have to get to the heart of the problem - that workers capital is still mostly blindly given to short term fund managers who are neither interested, or incentivised to rebuild a more ...

Labor promises five-year freeze on super tax

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JUL 2013
... can feel confident that under a Labor Government, the rise to 12% super, increased concessional caps and the tax cut for workers earning up to $37,000 will not be ripped away," Bowen said. A Rudd Government would also bring forward legislation to establish ...

Numbers don't add up at McDonald's financial planning

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUL 2013
... to set up a financial planning unit for its workforce has prompted harsh criticism for its assumption that its low-paid workers can't live on the minimum wage income that they are paid. A sample budget on McDonald's "Practical Money Skills for Life" ...

Greece what?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUL 2013
... the latest troika mandated austerity measures - wage cuts and "plans for a transfer and layoff scheme for 25,000 public workers - mainly teachers and municipal police," according to Reuters. Reuters also reports that this 25,000 sorry mob would be given ...