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Optimism, resilience high on the recruitment checklist

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2020
... determining who are the best candidates in the industry for that role and enticing them. "After all, there will only be limited budget for recruiting and you want to make every new hire as best as you can in today's COVID world."

Morrison's legacy will be retirement poverty: ACTU

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2020
... done enough to support working people and has instead decided to force people to sacrifice their retirements to save the budget bottom line," ACTU assistant secretary Scott Connolly said. "This scheme is having a disastrous impact on the retirement savings ...

Industry funds team up in longevity search

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2020
... are in early stages of retirement. "It's a bit like not insuring your house and holding money back from your day-to-day budget. And economics tells us self-insurance is an inefficient way for [longevity risk]," he says, likening it to ABP withdrawals ...

Private equity weathers COVID-19 crisis: Research

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2020
New research from asset consultant Willis Towers Watson has found that private equity investments have weathered the impact of the COVID-19 financial crisis, despite a subdued environment for exit deals in the first half of the year. In a survey of ...

Experts battle for GST reform

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2020
A Monash University lecturer has pushed the case for a GST holiday, which he argues is the most effective way to generate "maximum economic bang for the government's buck". In an opinion piece for The Conversation, economics lecturer Isaac Gross argued ...

Land tax, not stamp duty: Report

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2020
A draft report into reforming GST and reducing inefficient taxes has reignited calls for the scrapping of stamp duty when buying or selling a home, to be replaced by a broad-based land tax. The NSW Review of Federal Financial Relations draft report ...

At least $70bn more in stimulus needed: Grattan

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2020
... should include temporary as well as permanent measures, and must be announced soon, by or during the October 6 federal budget. Grattan is recommending three main temporary measures which will cost about $30 billion over 2020-21, economists led by John ...

Chief economist update: Still the best and better than all the rest

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUN 2020
... government - or any government of the day since Treasurer Wayne Swan - from the promise of achieving that ever-elusive Budget SURPLUS. It has given it license to go forth and spend to save the economy from its first and only recession in 29 years. Even ...

Job vacancies up 15%: Research

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2020
Data from LinkedIn and SEEK has revealed which industries are hiring - with several companies in financial services looking to fill roles. SEEK data from May revealed that job ads in the insurance and superannuation sectors were down 2%, while almost ...

First Nations Foundation gets COVID-19 funding

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUN 2020
The First Nations Foundation, an Indigenous-led not-for-profit that promotes financial literacy, has received funding to deliver COVID-19 support to women. The foundation was one of only four recipients of this funding from the Department of Prime Minister ...