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Gender diversity in investment management slightly improving: Report

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 16 DEC 2022
... "Achieving improved diversity may require innovation in recruitment practices, especially given the current tight labour market," McLaughlin said. "Heightened awareness of biases in advertising, evaluation criteria, networks and role modelling are important ...

Delayed reforms put pensioners at risk: OECD

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 5 DEC 2022
... administrative burdens involved. So, the OECD calls for policy guidance to optimise employer involvement, accounting for labour market structures and mobility, ensuring good conditions in regulations and financial markets, and reducing barriers preventing ...

The game changing trends planners should know about

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 24 NOV 2022
... Zs in your workforce right now, you will really soon. Within six years, this next generation will be 31% of the labour market. So, we're going to be working with a lot more of them." From a client perspective, and particularly the investment standpoint ...

Advising an ageing population

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 NOV 2022
... 85% of employment growth for the last 20 years is coming from an increase in people aged 50 and above." While the labour market is being driven more by people working for longer, Scott points out there are still declining trends in those over 50 and ...

Equipsuper investment chief on re-energising his team

ELIZABETH FRY  |  MONDAY, 7 NOV 2022
... Libby Sparshatt have been with Equip/Catholic for years. How do you retain senior investment people in such a tight labour market? And how did you attract top professionals like an operations expert, a ESG specialist and two senior portfolio managers ...

Australian housing slump marches on

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 1 NOV 2022
... supported by a below-average flow of new listings that is keeping overall inventory levels contained. There's also tight labour market conditions, an accrual of borrower savings and a larger than normal cohort of fixed interest rate borrowers, who have ...

RBA downplays exchange rate inflationary impacts

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 25 OCT 2022
... arrangements and technology advancements," Kent said. But another factor that contributed to the spare capacity in the labour market, affecting wages growth, was the long shadow cast by the end of the mining boom. "This massive expansion in productive ...

Financial stability risks escalate: RBA

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 10 OCT 2022
... Debt-servicing challenges will become more difficult still if household incomes are affected by worse-than-expected labour market outcomes." While corporate indebtedness in Australia remains low, many businesses face rising cost pressures, higher interest ...

RBA lifts rates, lifts markets

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 OCT 2022
... be too aggressive like the US and other central banks to lead the economy to some form of recession, despite the labour market still being quite tight." University of Sydney professor of macroeconomics James Morley said: "I think the RBA will continue ...

RBA anticipated to lift the cash rate

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 6 SEP 2022
... contrarian view by forecasting a 25 basis point hike." "The RBA is aware that this is a double-edged sword. A tight labour market, strong retail sales, higher energy prices and continued supply shocks generally are all reasons to behave hawkishly; however ...