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Corporate super adjusts to crisis

MICHELLE BALTAZAR, MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 6 FEB 2009
... headcount. After the choice legislation was introduced three years ago, super funds have provided an option for those who change jobs or are made redundant to stay in the fund. But with employment opportunities reduced by the market downturn, many would ...

Online super reclaims lost accounts

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 6 FEB 2009
... 6.4 million accounts of Australia's unclaimed super," he said. "As younger investors, most of them would've had multiple jobs or moved house at least a few times - we were bound to track down something." The super fund's strategy has become a hit with ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 6 FEB 2009
... forecasts after the chain drew shoppers focused on necessities like groceries. Macy's, which this week said it would slash 7,000 jobs, on Thursday raised its fourth-quarter and full-year forecasts after reporting its sales. The overall sales numbers ...

Small businesses to get two-year SG relief

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 5 FEB 2009
... announced yesterday. Businesses with 20 or fewer staff are eligible under the proposal, equivalent to protecting 3.8 million jobs. "If you can reduce the costs to small businesses that frees up money to enable them to pay their staff, publish advertisements ...

Darkest before dawn

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2009
... chainsaws. Some who still have an inkling of courage to play are forced out of the game as their source of income dries out (jobs) and/or they're not allowed back in (ban on short-selling) and/or some are given play money by the government (bail-outs/tax ...

Big Sky to aid BHP staff

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JAN 2009
... financial planning division of Big Sky Credit Union is finalising a strategy to help those BHP Billiton employees that lost their jobs, however the financial planning division's board has not yet decided how much it will cost members. Big Sky Financial ...

MLC axes 120 workers

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JAN 2009
... markets. It is unclear which specific divisions or what levels of seniority are affected, however no investment management jobs were cut. "Around 120 people are affected and we will aim to redeploy as many of those people as possible into other roles ...

Jobs safe in Australia: ING

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 27 JAN 2009
... follows similar moves by financial services firms across the globe. Last year, US banking giant Citibank slashed up to 50,000 jobs worldwide. Locally, Macquarie Bank, ANZ and Westpac and St.George have also been shedding staff to weather tough market ...

Sucked in

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 JAN 2009
... gab, arguing for and against President Obama's proposed US$825 billion bail-out package, the number of workers losing their jobs, people losing their homes, businesses failing and other economies receding are multiplying, each feeding on the other into ...

Gung Hay Fat Choy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 JAN 2009
... financial crisis began, it was widely assumed that the Chinese economy need to grow by at least 8 per cent to keep its workers in jobs and avoid social instability. How this figure was arrived at is beyond me. Perhaps the same way as former US Treasury ...