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Sandy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 OCT 2012
... The details of the report suggest that there may be more where it came from as the pace of growth in personal income and wages and salaries quickened last month. Personal income growth accelerated to 0.4% in September from 0.1% in August. Wages and salaries ...

Murdoch defies shareholder sentiment

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 19 OCT 2012
... wage cuts amongst the highest earners. "We don't believe that any senior executive is worth four or five hundred times the wages paid to the employees who do the work, produce the product and generate the revenue and profits", said Graeme Russell, chief ...

PC hands down final default super report

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 15 OCT 2012
... interest groups arguing FWA should have no role to play in superannuation, siding with the fact that contributions are deferred wages and if these are handled by the employer then it is an industrial matter. Reflecting this, the PC has recommended all ...

$1bn unpaid contributions returned

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 12 OCT 2012
... must pay their employees' super contributions on a quarterly or monthly basis. This is because super is actually 'deferred wages' - so it is the employees' money," he said. "If people are not being paid super, they are not only missing out on remuneration ...

Super fund backs News Corp independence push

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2012
... company's executive compensation report. "We don't believe that any senior executive is worth four or five hundred times the wages paid to the employees who do the work, produce the product and generate the revenue and profits", said Russell. More industry ...

Emerging market PE numbers on track

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2012
... like Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Peru and Mexico are characterised by stabilised inflation, falling unemployment and rising wages, which in turn is driving strong internal consumption. Central bank autonomy, fiscal reforms and clear regulatory frameworks ...

Bad news sells

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 AUG 2012
... August. Australia's wage price index rose by 1.0% in the June quarter from 0.9% in the first quarter. The annual growth in wages and salaries excluding bonuses accelerated to 3.7% from 3.5% in the March quarter. The data look benign enough -- they're ...

Retiree living costs match CPI

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 2 AUG 2012
... special cost of living adjustment for pensions compared to other welfare benefits which are normally linked to CPI or average wages. The surprise in the latest results is that the PBLI is rising on par with regular CPI despite retirees and pensioners ...

Show me the stats

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAY 2012
... to payrolls last month. Mind you, this followed a 37.6K surge in March. The unemployment rate dropped to 4.9% from 5.2%. Wages. The Wage Price Index rose 0.9% in the March quarter following a 1.0% increase in the previous three-month period. Wages continue ...

Managers confident on value as China PMI contracts

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2012
... high degree of fear among the Party leadership, the focus had been on improving income level parity by increasing minimum wages, improving factory conditions and increasing public housing. "We do not expect a hard landing, but we remain below consensus ...