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Financial services eyes gig economy workers

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 FEB 2021
... more gig-based employees, despite a minority of casual employees (less than 10%) take up the current workforce. The Productivity 2021 and beyond report also reveals crowdsourcing to access "new world skills talent and ideas" has more than doubled since ...

Connectus empowers advisers with Excelerate

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 18 FEB 2021
... enhance business development through adviser coaching and referral programs; an array of tools for enhancing adviser productivity, including institutional research and investment alternatives; and an Intelligent Adviser Hub with personalised client portals ...

Continuous disclosure laws to stay

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 FEB 2021
... Treasury Laws Amendment (Your Future, Your Super) Bill 2021 is the culmination of about three years' work of the Productivity Commission and financial services Royal Commission attempting to address "structural flaws in the superannuation system" ...

Workers being offered nothing: Keating

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 FEB 2021
... whether SG stays as it is or goes to 12%. Instead, he said, businesses have been benefiting from an increase in labour productivity and have not been passing this on to workers through wages. "There's been a 10% increase in labor productivity since ...

Gender diversity has a way to go: Research

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 29 JAN 2021
... data gives investors a comprehensive view into how these practices are driving increased employee engagement and productivity, bringing higher market value to companies, and creating positive change in local communities."

WFH arrangements need planning: Research

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JAN 2021
... said they had been consulted by their managers. Employees believed a hybrid working model will positively impact productivity and job performance while employers reported managing staff as the biggest challenge. Pitcher Partners Melbourne consulting ...

Lack of diversity major business risk: SSGA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JAN 2021
... promote workforce diversity and inclusion through transparent hiring, promotion, and wage practices have seen improved productivity, revenues, and market share, while homogenous boards and workforces tend to refrain from challenging prevailing views. ...

Prioritise underperformance over stapling: AIST

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JAN 2021
... substantially addressed, members who are currently in underperforming funds will be stapled to those funds. In line with the Productivity Commission's approach, sequencing the measures to substantially address underperformance prior to introducing ...

Technology a tool not a threat: Avaloq

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 17 DEC 2020
... relationship managers will remain in demand while offering a blended delivery of artificial intelligence to meet speed and productivity. Further to this, technology will be able to predict what the end-client is seeking next and will be able to react ...

COVID-19 lockdown swells financial stress

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 14 DEC 2020
... which is a 54% increase from prior to the lockdown. Of these, 80% noted financial stress was impacting workplace productivity and 49% significantly reduced spending. However, financial stress caused by the pandemic has sparked more positive financial ...