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Industry funds wary of stapling default members

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 15 FEB 2019
... Commission on the matter - that each person have one default account and that this account move with them as they move across jobs. Dean says ISA backs the call for only one default per person at any point in time. But it thinks members should be able ...

Chief economist update: RBA still in denial

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 FEB 2019
... the headline numbers in the latest domestic labour market stats were so very good, the details hide the devil. See " Good jobs bad jobs " published here on 25 January 2019. The latest update on the ANZ job ads - a leading indicator of employment growth ...

Hiring outlook subdued: Poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2019
... About a third (30%) wants to hire more employees, while the remainder intend to maintain headcount levels. The latest Hays Jobs Report however paints a different picture, forecasting recruitment activity to pick up for the financial advice sector in ...

Chief economist update: The Fed pause that refreshes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 31 JAN 2019
... Optimism is back! This is sure to reverberate around the globe, triggering rebounds in consumer spending, business investment, jobs and overall economic growth, lifting inflation. My point, the current slim probability (7.1%) of the Fed raising rates ...

Chief economist update: Anatomy of an RBA rate cut

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JAN 2019
... spending. Especially, given the weakening trend in employment (notwithstanding the better-than-expected seasonally adjusted jobs result for December) that's due mainly to slowing creation of full-time jobs. This, along with the still high level of ...

Chief economist update: Good jobs bad jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2019
... barrels of fun! The Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) latest tracking of the labour market shows that we've got jobs and they're multiplying. Total employment grew by a greater-than-expected 21,600 in the month of December 2018 that ...

Advice jobs are coming: Recruiter

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 21 JAN 2019
... switches into hiring mode after a tough year of regulation, a large recruiting agency reports. According to the latest Hays Jobs Report, advice businesses sat on recruiting new talent in the second half of last year as the industry waited for the new ...

No-deal Brexit sparks mixed reaction: Poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 21 JAN 2019
... about the implications. A report from the UK Trade Policy Observatory and the University of Sussex suggests about 7450,000 jobs will be lost under a no-deal Brexit. The majority of job losses (148,000) will hit London the hardest. Consulting and accounting ...

Kelly O'Dwyer to leave parliament

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 21 JAN 2019
... many by-elections of late, and I have no intention of causing one in the next Parliament." O'Dwyer - who currently holds the Jobs and Industrial Relations portfolios in addition to her role as Minister for Women - was responsible for the oversight of ...

Corporates can help solve retirement issue: BlackRock

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2019
... boomers to millennials. In closing, Fink referenced a recent move by BlackRock to reduce its global workforce, cutting 500 jobs. "We recognise that companies must often make difficult decisions in the service of larger strategic objectives - for example ...