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Adviser regulation lacking a professional body, RC hears

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2018
... such alerts from ASIC's register. In the last two weeks, the Commission heard evidence of financial advisers whose employment or authorised representative status were terminated for allegedly engaging in misconduct. John Doyle and Chris Harris are ...

AMP kept unsuspecting clients in the dark: RC

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 24 APR 2018
... standards. Mr E was then referred to the advice committee (which Britt chaired) that ultimately decided not to terminate his employment. Instead, it provided him additional training and imposed certain restrictions. Mr E stayed because was new; a junior ...

Royal Commission singles out 325 NAB staff cutting corners

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 24 APR 2018
... asked to respond to these allegations, during which point he was suspended. After a period of investigation, Meyn's employment was terminated on the basis that he "deliberately falsified details" on those forms and that he had breached NAB's code of ...

Chief economist update: View from the National Farmers' Federation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 APR 2018
... April, Chief Economist Benjamin Ong argues that, given agriculture 'only' contributes 3% to Australia's GDP and 2.2% of employment our PM should not put agriculture at the heart of the Australia-EU FTA negotiations. The National Farmers' Federation disgarees. ...

Chief economist update: Malcolm puts agricuture in the middle

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 APR 2018
... Australian farm production in 2016-17 was $60 billion" and ABARES data show agriculture accounts for only 2.2% of total employment. Agriculture accounts for around 12% of Australia's total exports which is nothing to sneeze at but its agricultural exports ...

Chief economist update: Australian workers, don't expect a pay rise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2018
The latest Australian employment growth stat misses market expectations. The Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) update shows that while the unemployment rate remained at 5.5% in March - in line with expectations and unchanged from the January and ...

Chief economist update: RBA certain to raise interest rates

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 APR 2018
... Australian central bank's perspective on the domestic economy's cyclical progress: "The first is the strong growth in employment." "The second theme is a pick-up in non-mining business investment." "The third theme is an improvement in business conditions ...

Chief economist update: Synchronised global slowing?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 APR 2018
... 54.8 53.5 - Rising, slower rate New Orders 55.0 53.9 - Rising, slower rate New Exports 53.1 51.8 - Rising, slower rate Employment 53.1 52.3 - Rising, slower rate Input Prices 60.7 60.0 - Rising, slower rate Output Prices 54.0 53.8 - Rising, slower rate ...

Chief economist update: Caught in the crossfire

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 APR 2018
... of 15,000 and, better still, the details show that this is wholly due to the surge in the more permanent full-time employment - up 64,900 in February - that offset the 47,400 drop in part-time jobs. And although the unemployment rate ticked up to 5.6% ...

Chief economist update: The survey says...

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAR 2018
... the key findings are: "Expectations for business activity and new work remain positive, albeit relatively subdued; employment forecast to increase at slightly faster pace; and input costs set to rise at a quicker rate than output charges." The survey ...