Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 711 - 720 of 1045 results for "Productivity"

Lead us not into a recession

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2015
... case. Last week's "National Reform Summit" provided plenty of ideas for the government to spend on - among which, is productivity-enhancing infrastructure. It's a good time to do so too with interest rates so low. Data from the Australian Office of Financial ...

ANZ signs $450m tech agreement with IBM

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 1 SEP 2015
ANZ will pay IBM $450 million for a five year agreement to increase productivity and improve its technology and software across the group. The deal includes access to IBM's software portfolio, an Innovation Lab, next generation cloud development and ...

Reform summit must keep momentum: ASFA

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2015
... weeks," Vamos said. At the summit a cross-sector statement was produced focusing on sustainable retirement incomes, productivity growth, workforce participation, fiscal policy, and tax reform. National Seniors chief executive, Michael O'Neill, sat on ...

Difficult year for insurance income: CBA

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2015
... can." As for the 17% profit drop in the bank's wealth management arm that includes CommInsure, Narev said a focus on productivity needs to be respondent to ongoing costs. "We've seen in the wealth management results one underpinning theme for us and ...

CBA profit tops $9 billion

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 AUG 2015
... planning remediation costs the major drivers. CBA invested $1.2 billion on risk and compliance projects, technology and productivity. During the past financial year CBA paid more than $6.8 billion in dividends to about 800,000 shareholders. It declared ...

Water, water everywhere

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2015
... correspondent Jamie McGeever: 52 mentions of sterling in BoE Inflation Report today vs 42 in May's. 68 mentions of "productivity" in today's BoE Inflation Report vs 84 in May's. 39 mentions of "slack" today vs 75 in May. Laughable or insightful, the ...

Super board changes ignore past lessons: Bowen

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2015
... models, which has delivered undeniable benefits for competition over the past two decades," Bowen said. He noted the Productivity Commission in its 2012 report into default superannuation funds found there was "a lack of compelling evidence to suggest ...

MySuper fee savings can be doubled

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2015
... but introducing some simple measures could double that amount, according to the Grattan Institute. The Institute's productivity growth program director, Jim Minifie, said that the average MySuper account with a balance less than $50,000 is being administered ...

ASFA appoints independent chair

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 27 JUL 2015
... non-executive director of State Super, Asset Super, and Chifley Financial Services. Over the years, he has served on several Productivity Commission Panels and has been appointed to government enquiries and boards by both sides of politics. ASFA represents ...

Government to review ASIC

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2015
... "observations" rather than "recommendations on ASIC's regulatory framework or powers." Its panel currently comprises Productivity Commission commissioner Karen Chester as chair, as well as former Queensland Treasury chief executive Mark Gray and Madgwicks ...