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YBR wealth restructure sees multiple job cuts

KERRIE SYDEE  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 AUG 2016
... will transition to a franchise model and consolidate staff members as the company shifts focus towards increased productivity and adviser recruitment. In a statement, YBR said the changes follow the acquisition of Resi Mortgage Corporation, Vow Financial ...

Competition not super's silver bullet: PC

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 2 AUG 2016
The Productivity Commission says competition among Australia's $2 trillion superannuation system "is not an end in itself" to assure efficiency. In releasing its proposed framework to assess super's efficiency and competitiveness the Commission has ...

Economic Wrap

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 2 AUG 2016
... costs about $10,000 to install, within a few years it could be as cheap as $100. Dr Bradlow said the improvement in productivity could revolutionalise the Australian economy because 90% of road accidents are caused by human error. Despite low inflation ...

Economic Wrap

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUL 2016
... exports. As the short-run impact of the jump in household income wanes, growth is projected to edge down in 2017. Productivity is expected to be undermined, however, by the fragmentation of the business sector still very reliant on national government ...

Standard Life Investments calls for more monetary easing

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUL 2016
... needs is a coordinated loosening of fiscal and monetary policy amid widespread structural reforms designed to return productivity growth to historic norms. Economists have been recommending such action for some time but governments have yet to receive ...

PROFILE: Industry Super Australia chief economist Stephen Anthony

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUL 2016
... link industry super's role in the wider economy, thinking about its drivers for outperformance alongside issues of productivity and how it is all measured. He says ISA encourages him to be an independent voice on certain economic issues or "to act like ...

State governments must divest energy networks: CEDA

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUN 2016
... yesterday, included speakers such as IFM Investors chief executive Brett Himbury; CEDA national chairman Paul McClintock; Productivity Commission chairman Peter Harris; and Infrastructure Victoria chief executive Michel Masson.

Global bond funds underinvested in EMD

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUN 2016
... its growth keeps declining. This cannot continue forever, especially when the debt may not be increasing economic productivity. "From a US perspective, the US Federal Reserve is in a quandary. If it raises interest rates, it risks global leverage which ...

ASFA recognises super challenge for PC

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUN 2016
The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia has acknowledged the Productivity Commission's challenging task in measuring the competitiveness and efficiency of a complex and heterogeneous system and its wider industry. In its first submission ...

AIA launches adviser wellness program

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAY 2016
... program and will feature a series of workshops presented by experts in their field, covering personal effectiveness and productivity, business strategy and value and client engagement solutions. AIA Australia's chief retail insurance officer Pina Sciarrone ...