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Adviser cybercrime insurance launches

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 28 MAR 2017
... business is damage to its brand and reputation due to its high reliance on customer trust. Advisers hold large amounts of third-party data - from personal client information, to how and where they invest their money - all of which are susceptible to ...

ETFs attracting insto appetites: VanEck

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 27 MAR 2017
New research from VanEck suggests Australian institutional investors will likely be ramping up their allocations to exchange-traded funds. More than half (55%) of institutions surveyed currently use ETFs; 56% indicated they would be increasing this ...

Higher and higher

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAR 2017
... in Australia's eight capital cities jumped by 4.1% in the December quarter, following increases of 2.6% and 2.9% in the third and second quarters, respectively. This is sharply higher than market expectations for a 2.4% gain and takes the annual rate ...

Not off the boil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAR 2017
... The annual rate of change in the average price of new homes in the 70 Chinese cities have slowed to 11.8% last month, the third straight month of easing prices since the 12.6% peak recorded in November last year.

Labour costs rising

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAR 2017
... Wages and salaries per hour worked rose by 1.6% year-on-year in the fourth quarter of 2016 following a 1.5% increase in the third. Growth in the non-wage component sped up to 1.5% from 1.0% in the third quarter. While this appears to have passed through ...

One Direction and the BOE

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 MAR 2017
... months to January from 4.9% roundabout Brexit. The lead from the claimant count unemployment -- down another 11,300 for its third straight month of decline - points to further improvement in the jobless rate. This is an indication that's further underscored ...

ATO payroll system tracking unpaid super

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAR 2017
... monitors this and implement early intervention if super guarantee contributions are not being paid. About 2.4 million or one-third of Australian workers are missing out on some or all of their superannuation entitlements to the tune of $3.6 billion per ...

Access to super for housing is still bad policy

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAR 2017
... "Using super to solve housing policy problems jeopardises the success of the superannuation system, which is ranked as the third best in the world by the Melbourne Mercer Global Pension Index," SMSF Association managing director and chief executive Andrea ...

Cyber breaches arise internally: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAR 2017
Two-thirds of cyber breaches arise from employees' negligence or malicious acts, new claims data from Willis Towers Watson shows. Using its newly launched Cyber Risk Culture Survey solution, the company found 18% of cyber risks were driven by an external ...

Wages and super should be aligned: Cbus

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAR 2017
... experiencing a problem with unpaid superannuation and only 60% of members were confident their super had been paid. More than a third of those who had experienced unpaid super reported that their issue had not been resolved. Cbus also called for the ...