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Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 DEC 2006
... and retail industries. However, business confidence remained steady at +6 points having fallen in recent months. The employment component within fell by 6 points to an index level of +2 which is a contrary signal to the figures coming from the ABS although ...

Aust Meat Industry Super Trust opens to the public

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 12 DEC 2006
... of people that want to join the fund that we can't take at the moment and we've got existing members who go to new employment outside the meat industry who want to stay with us, and going public offer means they can do that." Cahill said that once the ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 12 DEC 2006
... now the third consecutive quarter that the D&B survey has shown negative expectations for growth in sales, profits, employment and inventories. In excess of half (51 per cent) of the firms surveyed said that they had experienced a positive impact upon ...

Macq splits the wrap

... "For example, say the husband has a long service period attached to his super which goes back to fund membership or employment before 1983. The couple could consider splitting part of his wife's benefit across to the husband to make use of his pre 83 ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 24 NOV 2006
The criticism raised yesterday by the Catholic Social Services Australia (CSSA) and the Salvation Army's Employment Plus that the structure of the Federal Government's job network in allocating more assistance to long-term unemployed was giving them ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 23 NOV 2006
... before providing a higher level of support to the unemployed. The comments have been supported by the Salvation Army's Employment Plus job network. Meanwhile, ABS data just released shows that the National Health Survey (NHS) of 2004-05 revealed that ...

First State Super launches retirement products

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 NOV 2006
... crucially, the survey also found that two-thirds of those who intend retiring want to continue in some form of paid employment, confirming demographic trends showing retirement is now increasingly a slow down phase rather than a complete stop. Bernard ...

ANZ FP to focus on maintaining its muscle

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 21 NOV 2006
... planners in the marketplace at the moment. Of course, we're only looking for a certain type of planner with our salaried employment model." However, he said that with the increasing competition to secure quality planners ANZ FP would be changing its ...

Daily Economic Round Up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 NOV 2006
... three of the components of the index with trading conditions up 2 points to +28, profitability up 6 points to +18 and employment up 2 points to +8 points. NAB says that despite the good news on recent activity indicators, the level of forward orders ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 9 NOV 2006
... about 1.6 million jobs, will loose about $115 million for every 1 per cent increase in interest rates. Australia's employment data released today shows that on a seasonally adjusted basis unemployment decreased by 16,200 or about 0.1 of a percentage ...