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Casey Thompson joins First Super board

ANDREW MCKEAN | MONDAY, 5 SEP 2022

... director, appointed in January 2021. Thompson also serves as a board member of the Homeworkers Code Committee (Ethical Clothing Australia) and Evatt Foundation. In 2021, Thompson was also a recipient of the Gary Weaven Emerging Trustee Scholarship. "Casey's ...

AustralianSuper adds ACTU president to board

JAMIE WILLIAMSON | TUESDAY, 12 OCT 2021

... the ACTU since 2018 and is also a member of its executive team. Prior to this she was national secretary of the Textile Clothing and Footwear Union of Australia (TCFUA) and spent 28 years with the union in total. In leading the TCFUA, she was instrumental ...

CFS, UniSuper win customer satisfaction nods

KARREN VERGARA | FRIDAY, 11 JUN 2021

... players in more than 30 industries, which include the superannuation, banking, automotive, insurance, utilities and retail clothing. In superannuation for example, the Major category looked at the top five super funds, while the non-Major categories ...

Chief economist update: Inflation lifted by smokers with young children and homebuilders

BENJAMIN ONG | THURSDAY, 28 JAN 2021

... $600 credit, resulting in a fall in electricity prices of 66.7 per cent in Perth". Prices also continued to fall for clothing & footwear (-1.0%); housing (-0.6%); and, communications (-0.4%). The latest figures take the annual rate of headline inflation ...

Chief economist update: Not out of the woods

BENJAMIN ONG | FRIDAY, 30 OCT 2020

... (led by health care as well as food services and accommodations) and goods (led by motor vehicles and parts as well as clothing and footwear). The increase in private inventory investment primarily reflected an increase in retail trade (led by motor ...

Financial services workers content with pandemic changes

ANNABELLE DICKSON | WEDNESDAY, 19 AUG 2020

... continue to focus on offering more workplace flexibility - such as less time spent commuting, and wearing more comfortable clothing to work - but they expect their employer to focus on digital transformation and finding ways to do more with less." More ...

40% of ERS applicants not eligible: illion

ELIZA BAVIN | MONDAY, 17 AUG 2020

... spending and not maintain it. "Almost two-thirds (64%) of this additional spending was on discretionary items such as clothing, furniture, restaurants and alcohol," illion said. "Spending on debt repayments has dropped slightly since the first round ...

Insurers COVID-19 response slammed

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR | WEDNESDAY, 29 JUL 2020

... if a claimant is unable to perform the activities of daily living - which are basic things like feeding, washing and clothing themselves," he said. "People are shunted into this definition because of their employment status." Mennen argued that from ...

SEC charges COVID-19 microcap scammers

ALLY SELBY | FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2020

... generated more than $37 million (US$25 million) from penny stock sales. One such promotion wrongly claimed that a heated clothing company could produce medical quality facemasks in response to the coronavirus pandemic, while another claimed the securities ...

Super withdrawals being misused

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR | MONDAY, 1 JUN 2020

... was used up in the first two weeks. Most of the money, 64%, appears to have been spent on discretionary items such as clothing, furniture, restaurants and alcohol. "There's a group of people out there living very large on pizza and beer courtesy of tax-free ...

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Australian Unity to shed 195 roles

MATTHEW WAI

Australian Unity is reducing its workforce by 195 positions due to underperformance stemming from delays in government support for its Home Health platform and the integration of several businesses.

Count shutters limited-advice business, slips in size ranking

MATTHEW WAI

Count Financial has reportedly wound up its restricted SMSF/limited-advice service, losing some 26 advisers on the Financial Adviser Register, latest data shows.

First Super recruits head of investments from Prime Super

MATTHEW WAI

First Super has appointed a new head of investments, replacing Chris Artis, who was in the position for the past three months on an interim basis.

BMO eyes Euroz Hartleys' capital markets business

KARREN VERGARA

Euroz Hartleys confirmed it is in discussions with Canada's BMO Financial Group for a potential sale of its capital markets business for $145 million.

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