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Industry funds continue risk-adjusted domination

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2020
... performance and relationships with volatility risk measures. The super fund for Western Australia's local government workers, WA Super, took the top combined risk adjusted position in the three years to March 2020, thanks to a 4.6% p.a. three-year ...

Life insurance salary guide for 2020

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2020
... the pool of established life assessors becoming smaller, we are seeing a big rise in insurers hiring candidates from the workers compensation/ allied health pool as the next best option," the recruiter said. "Many of these candidates either have extremely ...

Labor calls for end to war on super

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2020
... ownership of Australia's farms. "Here we have the opposite - Australian businesses owned by the savings of Australian workers through their superannuation," he says. Jones claims the government is "paving the way" for the introduction of a plan formulated ...

Chief economist update: US labour market turns V-shaped

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2020
... lockdown restrictions by both state and local governments have thawed frozen business activity and by extension, demand for workers. It's still early days. The hope is for continued improvement in the US labour market. The risk is that the current ...

Wage growth, not wage cuts

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2020
... business investment. He suggests three policy solutions; boost household incomes, increase wages, or retrain and up skill workers. Boosting household incomes could be achieved through government payments or tax relief (although this would add to the ...

Super release widens gender gap: AMP

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2020
... Australia held by women. Female work hours also reduced by 11.5% in April, compared to a 7.5% reduction suffered by male workers. AMP managing director of superannuation, retirement and platforms, Lara Bourguignon, said the analysis highlights the disproportionate ...

Let's not waste the crisis

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2020
... had come to the fore over the last few months, with the economic implications of the pandemic hitting poorer, vulnerable workers harder than most. "It was initially surmised that COVID-19 did not discriminate based on socio-economic factors," she said. ...

Banks accused of violating worker ethics

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2020
... report, the Finance Sector Union has delved into how the industry's "capitalist ethics" violate the ethical integrity of workers. The report was commissioned by the FSU and completed by the Religion and Social Policy Network of the University of Divinity. ...

Chief economist update: Japan reopens for business

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2020
... was invoke the Japanese' sense of community spirit and asked to limit social contacts by 70%-80%, for non-essential workers to work from home and companies to reduce shifts for workers who cannot work online. It couldn't have come soon enough ...

Switching prompts fund to alter allocations

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2020
... feel that doing so may help us meet investment return objectives and deliver on your retirement goals." With many Qantas workers impacted by the travel bans imposed to slow the spread of COVID-19, Qantas Super has already paid out at least $33 million ...