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Fin planning jobs fall 60pc

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2009
... the drop in advertisements. While there are more financial planning candidates available, the problem is the low number of jobs on offer. Indeed, those entering the industry will find it tough as more experienced financial planners, paraplanners and ...

They will, they won't

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2009
... manufacturing there is once again expanding. They will. Those betting on another rate cut today points to the sharply deteriorating jobs outlook in the domestic economy. Lay-offs still abound and advertisements for workers almost halved over the last ...

Finance job market to recover by 2010

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2009
... director of Morgan McKinley Sydney. But while the forecasted figures may seem positive, the Government's outlook on the local jobs market as a whole is far from robust. Last week the International Monetary Fund predicted Australia's job market to contract ...

MLC takes earnings hit

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2009
... divisions. The Australian banking arm reduced headcount by only 0.7 per cent over the same period although it did slash 625 jobs, equivalent to a 3.3 per cent reduction, in the full year. The job cuts come at a time when MLC Investments' net income fell ...

Keep co-contributions: HESTA

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2009
... retirement savings. The effect of career breaks and working in occupations that are not paid well compared to male dominated jobs only aggravate the situation for women. Corboy added that investing long-term is about time in the market. Women are aware ...

Danger, Will Robinson!

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2009
... country -- ballooning budget deficit is a step in the right direction. However, with nerves still fragile - wealth destroyed, jobs lost or under threat, homes foreclosed - the last thing those still with jobs (and earning more than US$250,000 for the ...

UBS cuts business and jobs

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2009
Swiss bank UBS has flagged a $2 billion loss in the first quarter of this year amid more than 8,000 jobs cuts across the bank's business divisions. Oswald GrA1/4bel, UBS Group chief executive, said at an annual general meeting (AGM), the group is estimated ...

Russell slashes Aust jobs

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2009
Russell Investment Group has cut around 20 per cent of the firm's Melbourne and Sydney staff, but leaves local investment teams mostly intact. According to industry sources, the firm's Melbourne office, where the majority of staff cuts were made, suffered ...

Fiji Reserve Bank imposes credit controls

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2009
... unusual for a developing country to do this kind of thing," said Hayward. As many as half of Fiji's 52,000 public service jobs are potentially at risk according to the Lowy report, while most tourist resorts are currently running at a loss. Floods in ...

Vantage point

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2009
... capacity utilisation has fallen to a record low of 69.3 per cent in March. Certainly this will have negative implications for jobs going forward. They will cite last night's 0.4 per cent year-on-year fall in US headline inflation in March and how deflation ...