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Chief economist update: A prelude to taper?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JAN 2018
... Japan's labour market stats indicate it would. Japan's unemployment rate fell to a 24-year low of 2.7% in November with the jobs-to-applicants ratio rising to a 44-year high of 1.56 in the same month. Not surprisingly, wages are starting to pick up. ...

Getting better and betterer

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 JAN 2018
... 252,000 gain in the previous month with the unemployment rate holding steady at a 17-year low of 4.1%. Even better, the latest jobs report contained indication that wages are starting to pick up (at least at the margin). Average hourly earnings increased ...

Jobs, jobs, jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 DEC 2017
... 61,600 in November, more than three times consensus expectations for a 19,200 gain. Even better, both full-time and part time jobs went up by 41,900 and 19,700, respectively. The unemployment rate remained unchanged at 5.4% in November but this was due ...

French giant intensifies action on global warming

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 12 DEC 2017
... be no winners in the long-term if society as a whole loses out. "This is the key to a sustainable growth that will create jobs and foster an economic development that is beneficial for society," he said. Climate change isn't the only issue BNP Paribas ...

Link adds DB super fund to admin portfolio

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 7 DEC 2017
... Investments Master Trust to the aaspire platform. She said the migration process from Russell has included the on-shoring of jobs to Link's Rhodes office (inner west Sydney). The Russell trust previously off-shored admin operations in India before Link ...

Australia braces for Amazon impact

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 5 DEC 2017
... access to small and medium-sized Australian businesses via Amazon Marketplace. "Over time, we will create thousands of new jobs and invest hundreds of millions of dollars in Australia," Braeuniger added. "The result will be an ever-improving customer ...

Vision Super creates head technology role

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 1 DEC 2017
... he is delighted to have joined the $8.75 billion fund. "Industry super funds are a national treasure; there are very few jobs where you are genuinely working for people's best interests - the focus on our members' futures gives me an opportunity to combine ...

As one door opens, another closes at FEW

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 28 NOV 2017
... relationship they have with us. Our goal is to ensure members get the best career from where they are now without the need to move jobs every three years," Beck said. Borne out of what she gleaned from the industry through running FRG, Beck said it is ...

The age of algorithmic advice

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 24 NOV 2017
... nothing to fear as it's simply "not unique." Walsh said financial planners' fear-based thinking that technology will replace jobs must shift to ask how will jobs need to change. He stressed what this new technology is doing is "democratising access" ...

Big bedrooms pose challenge for planners

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 24 NOV 2017
... healthcare and social assistance sectors. He said between May 2000 and May 2017, the Australian economy added 3.7 million jobs and it lost 294,000 jobs. The fastest growing occupations in the past five years have been sales assistants, aged or disabled ...