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World on the brink: Frontier Advisors

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 6 DEC 2024
... and evolving at speed," he said. "The promise of AI is real, and its potential to reshape industries and enhance productivity is enormous."

Inconsistencies abound in Future Fund mandate change: Deloitte

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 26 NOV 2024
... development rest largely on the supply side, with high materials costs, a lack of workers, and poor construction sector productivity," Deloitte said. "Like anyone balancing both risk and return, the Future Fund invests in a portfolio of assets. Not all ...

Work-related training boosts pay and productivity: CEDA

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 NOV 2024
Work-related training is declining in Australia, despite it bringing higher incomes for workers and increased productivity for employers, the Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA) has found. CEDA analysis of HILDA data shows workers' ...

Lack of action on menopause driving gender inequity

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 18 NOV 2024
... Macquarie Business School estimates this costs Australian companies about $10 billion a year in terms of recruitment and productivity. Meantime, in managing their symptoms, about 30% have used up their total leave entitlements. One of the factors that ...

Super fund fees exploit Australians' low financial literacy

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 OCT 2024
... they could achieve for their retirement, 72% said they'd consider switching to a lower-fee fund. Analysis by the Productivity Commission has shown that a lower-cost superannuation fund could save a typical full-time worker around 12% of their super balance ...

$3m super tax edges closer to reality

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 10 OCT 2024
... sector for funding," he added. "At a time when we need to lift economic growth, these sectors are a critical driver of productivity, and we should be focusing on measures that encourage this growth rather than stifling it." The bill will need the support ...

RBA feels 'not enough has changed'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 8 OCT 2024
... currently expected - for instance, if the economy's current supply potential had been overestimated or if future productivity growth turned out to be weaker than assumed." The minutes revealed members also considered a formal analysis in which the economy's ...

Labor delivers another budget surplus, but productivity stalls

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 1 OCT 2024
... against inflation. They are building our fiscal buffers at a time of global volatility and uncertainty." Meantime, the Productivity Commission (PC) delivered a warning over Australia's "productivity deadlock". The PC quarterly productivity bulletin found ...

Super for housing debate heats up

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 23 SEP 2024
... on house prices, but argued that other factors, such as real wages growth, falling interest rates, and increased productivity also drive prices up. "It would be bizarre to argue against any of these on the basis that they would affect house prices," ...

Megatrends impacting portfolio construction: Mercer

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 19 SEP 2024
... technology, which has been with us for a long period of time now, technology itself did not produce any significant productivity guides. "So, when you hear people talking about AI and other productivity guides, I would urge you to give a good degree ...