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Equipsuper investment chief on re-energising his team

ELIZABETH FRY  |  MONDAY, 7 NOV 2022
... Libby Sparshatt have been with Equip/Catholic for years. How do you retain senior investment people in such a tight labour market? And how did you attract top professionals like an operations expert, a ESG specialist and two senior portfolio managers ...

Australian housing slump marches on

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 1 NOV 2022
... supported by a below-average flow of new listings that is keeping overall inventory levels contained. There's also tight labour market conditions, an accrual of borrower savings and a larger than normal cohort of fixed interest rate borrowers, who have ...

RBA downplays exchange rate inflationary impacts

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 25 OCT 2022
... arrangements and technology advancements," Kent said. But another factor that contributed to the spare capacity in the labour market, affecting wages growth, was the long shadow cast by the end of the mining boom. "This massive expansion in productive ...

Financial stability risks escalate: RBA

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 10 OCT 2022
... Debt-servicing challenges will become more difficult still if household incomes are affected by worse-than-expected labour market outcomes." While corporate indebtedness in Australia remains low, many businesses face rising cost pressures, higher interest ...

RBA lifts rates, lifts markets

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 OCT 2022
... be too aggressive like the US and other central banks to lead the economy to some form of recession, despite the labour market still being quite tight." University of Sydney professor of macroeconomics James Morley said: "I think the RBA will continue ...

RBA anticipated to lift the cash rate

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 6 SEP 2022
... contrarian view by forecasting a 25 basis point hike." "The RBA is aware that this is a double-edged sword. A tight labour market, strong retail sales, higher energy prices and continued supply shocks generally are all reasons to behave hawkishly; however ...

Calls for greater efforts to close gender pay, super gap

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 AUG 2022
... moving to a new job and they may have greater bargaining power over what they are paid, particularly in today's tight labour market." However, Grant surmised that many women may not know about the existence of the wages gap as salaries are confidential ...

Strong wage growth lags inflation

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 18 AUG 2022
... sector has a large proportion of jobs paid under multi-year enterprise agreements which tend to be less reactive to labour market conditions. Sharing her outlook, ASPL Group chief executive Kris Grant said with the tight labour market, pressure on salaries ...

US inflation drops to 8.5%

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  THURSDAY, 11 AUG 2022
... reflecting external and, more significantly, domestic price pressures. As suggested by the latest employment report, the labour market has remained extremely tight, which has supported wage growth. "While the Fed will draw some comfort from todays' inflation ...

RBA lifts cash rate to 1.85%

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 AUG 2022
... factors either. The central bank notes Australia has widespread upward pressures on prices from strong demand, a tight labour market and capacity constraints in some sectors of the economy. Nevertheless, inflation is forecast to peak later this year ...