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Wearables driving life insurance engagement

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAR 2018
... insurance policy. According to AIA Australia chief executive Damien Mu, this is evident in the life insurer's latest statistics, which registered more than 107,000 online health assessments; 195,000 gym visits and 14 billion steps in the 12 months to ...

Stellar growth for industry funds: APRA

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 FEB 2018
... growth of industry superannuation funds significantly outpaced retail funds in the year to December 2017, latest APRA statistics show. Industry funds saw assets surge 18.3% to $589.8 billion year-on-year, largely driven by net contributions flows, which ...

Chief economist update: The key to ECB taper

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 FEB 2018
... ECON committee of the European Parliament in Brussels. There's no question about the veracity of Draghi's words. The statistics are there for all to see. The economy expanded by 2.5% for the full-year 2017 - the fastest growth rate in 10 years. The unemployment ...

Chief economist update: The real growth in wages

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 FEB 2018
It's certainly welcomed but nothing to write home about. I speak about the Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) Wage Price Index (WPI) report that revealed growth in total wages accelerated to 2.1% in the December quarter from 2% in the previous quarter. ...

Chief economist update: Wagering on wages

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 FEB 2018
... overall wages in the domestic economy has run faster, slower or continue to mark time when the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) releases its Wage Price Index report for the December 2017 quarter today. Consensus expectations are for annual growth ...

Chief economist update: Inflation isn't such a lonely word

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 FEB 2018
... the end of last week - a 46 basis point increase from 2.41% at the end of 2017 - pushed higher by the Bureau of Labor Statistics' (BLS) report confirming that US inflation is indeed moving on up. Headline CPI inflation rose by 0.5% in the month of January ...

Contract work threatens super: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 15 FEB 2018
... the system originally designed for stable, full-time employment. The authors pointed to the Centre for Future Work statistics which indicate less than half of workers hold a full-time permanent job; 23% are employed casually; and the remainder are either ...

Chief economist update: Bad news is good news returns?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 FEB 2018
... S&P 500 index by 1.3% and the Nasdaq Composite by 1.9% the day the music should have died when the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) confirmed that inflation was indeed lifting. Headline CPI inflation rose by 0.5% in the month of January following ...

Reskilling: A worthy purpose for super?

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 FEB 2018
... super balances could prove substantial. Howes said current life expectancies calculated by the Australian Bureau of Statistics - men living to 79 and women to 84 - don't account for innovation. When considering various improvements across a range of ...

Planners vital to closing super gap: Research

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 12 FEB 2018
... factors that impact a woman's ability to accumulate superannuation at the same rate as their male counterparts, the statistics have improved since 2013 when women had just 67.5% of the male average - $99,300 vs. $147,100. However, Roy Morgan believes ...