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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 ...

Why it shouldn't be called impact investing

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 8 SEP 2017
... alternatives are risky assets and they weren't sure if they could justify it. A decade later, those same people were losing their jobs if they didn't have that allocation," he said. ESG, he added, is no different in this regard, and the best way to outperform ...

ASFA puts gig economy on the agenda

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  THURSDAY, 7 SEP 2017
... independent work arrangement - such as independent contractors - will migrate onto web-based platforms and new gig economy jobs will be created," Fahy said. "However, the current superannuation settings are not suited to these trends." As the system ...

Higher and higher

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 SEP 2017
... average over the period. Besides the details of the Conference Board's consumer confidence survey showed that those stating "jobs are hard to get" dropped from 18.7% to 17.3% while those saying "jobs are plentiful" jumped to 33.2 to 35.4%. Moreover ...