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Industry fund chief exits

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 5 NOV 2018
... have racked up $46,000 of personal expenses using his corporate card. Catholic Super has since terminated Clancy's employment. "A broader investigation into how and why the behaviour was able to occur continues. We acknowledge that some of our processes ...

Chief economist update: Americans who want work will find it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 NOV 2018
... this, these odds were tabulated after the release of the US non-farm payrolls report that showed a strong surge in employment and correspondingly rising wages. US employment increased by 250,000 in October after the addition of 118,000 workers on payrolls ...

Cbus whacks illegal phoenixing

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2018
The $48 billion industry super fund is backing the introduction of director identification numbers (DINs) to stop company directors from fraudulently escaping superannuation obligations to workers. The construction industry is the "highest represented" ...

Chief economist update: BOE waiting on Brexit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2018
... central bank maintaining its assessment of reduced slack in the economy. "The labour market remains tight, with the employment rate and vacancies around record highs, and the unemployment rate at its lowest since the mid-1970s. Regular pay growth has ...

Chief economist update: Australia's low(er)-flation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 NOV 2018
... Philip Lowe put it, likely "be up, rather than down"? To answer this, we have to look at the RBA's mandate of full employment and meeting an "agreed medium-term inflation target" of between 2% and 3%. Although we cannot completely discount exogenous ...

Super-size me: Latest employment trends

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 29 OCT 2018
Wealth management recruiters and their prospective job candidates are beneficiaries of businesses looking to "super-size" roles in digital and customer engagement positions. The 2018 market trends and salary review from Perceptor shows skilled candidates ...

Diversity is the answer to war for talent

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2018
... hypermasculine sector of financial services. Speaking at SIBOS this week, Rachel Cooper, professor in Gender, Work and Employment Relations at the University of Sydney Business School, said that contrary to the experiences of Baby Boomers and Gen X ...

Chief economist update: If you can't beat Trump, copy Trump

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 OCT 2018
... with the 20% contribution of GDP. Consumers are the lynchpin of the economy. Their spending generates sales, profits, employment, capital investment... economic growth. And for China, the latest planned edict will go towards its efforts at rebalancing ...

Chief economist update: Still the lucky country?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 OCT 2018
... little) for the writing on the trend estimates' wall is also caused for optimism. The trend estimates show that total employment continued to grow - up by 26,400 workers in September following the addition of 26,900 heads in the previous month for ...

Chief economist update: Bull markets don't die of old age

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 OCT 2018
... beyond the neutral rate (whatever that number be). Looked at from the perspective of the Fed's dual mandate - full employment and stable inflation - the Fed has already achieved its aim at current policy settings. This helps explains Trump's ...