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Super funds partner to tackle the coal problem

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 10 OCT 2017
... analyses this issue from multiple lenses, including addressing the looming problem of communities dependent on coal-based jobs. It argues that investors have a key role to play in the "revitalisation of regional economies where coal-based jobs are lost ...

No more slack?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 OCT 2017
... from 2.7% in the previous month. However, the jump in earnings might as well be distorted by the hurricanes as many of the jobs lost over the month were low-paying ones. As the BLS notes: "Employment in food services and drinking places dropped sharply ...

Advisers face tax registration risk

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 29 SEP 2017
... in 2015, which meant they only needed to provide basic details at the time," TPB chair Ian Taylor said. "If they changed jobs or email addresses and did not update their details or mobile number with the TPB, their registration is in jeopardy because ...

Trump-flation returns

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 SEP 2017
... Second, give American workers a pay raise by allowing them to keep more of their hard-earned paychecks. Third, make America the jobs magnet of the world by leveling the playing field for American businesses and workers. Finally, bring back trillions ...

WA super funds combine forces

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 SEP 2017
... based, member focused, low-fee super fund." "This is an exciting merger opportunity for our members as well as our state, with jobs remaining in Western Australia and not going east like they have with recent successor fund transfers for other WA corporate ...

Untouched super sits at $18 billion: ATO

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 21 SEP 2017
... consumers, and make it easier for them to get engaged with their super. It would also benefit young people who regularly move jobs yet fail to take their super balances with them to their new fund." "The active repatriation of accounts held by the ATO ...

Advice industry wasting potential on old models

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 SEP 2017
... accounting firm or financial advice practice would have been met with immediate scepticism driven by a common misconception of jobs being lost as a result, Tynan said. "In fact the opposite is true with outsourcing actually creating capacity within a ...

Managed accounts demand dominates platform market

KARREN VERGARA  |  SUNDAY, 17 SEP 2017
... advisers noted the main benefits gained in using managed accounts is not to make money for themselves, rather to do their jobs better and deliver better outcomes for clients, Dunnin said. He forecasts in the next five years, managed accounts will takeover ...

Not happy enough

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 SEP 2017
... consumers viewed news on all fronts as unfavourable - economic conditions; budget and taxation; interest rates; inflation; jobs and international conditions. "...consumers rated news on inflation and international conditions as much more negative than ...

Xenophon team introduce unpaid super Bill

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 11 SEP 2017
... threshold. AIST chief executive Eva Scheerlinck said that the threshold impedes on the ability of people working multiple jobs to save for their retirement. "We have examples where someone is working for three or four employers but aren't hitting the ...