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Super funds boost stake in US toll roads

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 DEC 2020
... million drivers a total of 17 million hours of time, while generating an estimated USD7 billion in economic impact and 46,000 jobs in the Greater Washington Area," Transubran said. "Transurban will continue to operate the 495, 95 and 395 Express Lanes ...

Chief economist update: Greed is good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 DEC 2020
... for a 460,000 increase, it marked the fifth straight month of slowing employment growth and is the slowest pace of monthly jobs growth since June this year. Not surprisingly, industries exposed to the rising rate of infections - retail, leisure and hospitality ...

Chief economist update: Australia is out

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 DEC 2020
Team Australia has done it! There are still some naysayers but using the internationally-accepted and widely-used measure of a recession - two consecutive quarters of negative GDP growth - Australia is technically out of it. The Australian Bureau of ...

HESTA partners with Australian Unity

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 1 DEC 2020
... in the fast-growing 'care' economy that can generate strong returns for HESTA members while helping to create growth and jobs in the industries where they work. Investing in the health and community services sector will also support a faster, higher-quality ...

Should remote employees be paid less?

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 26 NOV 2020
Over a quarter of US employers say they plan to pay employees based on the location of remote workers for all jobs in 2021. Willis Towers Watson surveyed 344 organisations in North America with 4.83 million employees between October 6 and 21. About ...

Zurich launches new fund

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 26 NOV 2020
... in consumer-facing companies. It also includes software as a standard which are companies that are automating white collar jobs; digital runway, the emerging fintechs; and data, networks and profits which is capturing returns from artificial intelligence. ...

Chief economist update: It's looking up for the land down under

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2020
... borders; the surprise jump in employment in October, punctuated by significant increases in both full-time and part-time jobs; and, the surging price of our biggest commodity export - iron ore - one that's bound to reduce the budget deficit the Treasury ...

JobKeeper saved 700,000 jobs: RBA

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 24 NOV 2020
... twice as much as it did. Our estimates are close to (or, a little larger than) Treasury's earlier estimates of the number of jobs that this fiscal measure 'saved'." The JobKeeper payment cost over $100 million and supported around 3.5 million workers ...

Chief economist update: Iron ore to reduce Aussie deficit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 NOV 2020
... (ABS) reported that 178,800 workers found employment in October - a pleasant surprise to markets that were expecting total jobs numbers to drop by 40,000 over the month as the government scaled back of its JobKeeper subsidy payments - with strong gains ...

US analysts fail to add value

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 23 NOV 2020
... stocks was found to yield a value-weighted raw return of 0.08% per month. This isn't because US analysts are not good at their jobs - rather, it might be because there are so many competent analysts in the market. The researchers found that analyst recommendations ...