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Equity investors will struggle in 2019: Baur

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 7 FEB 2019
... said. Baur sees low-wage earners influencing the fact that "globalisation is fading." Hundreds of millions of low-wage workers are being brought into the economy and they compete with the other middle-class workers in the UK, US, Europe and Japan, he ...

OPINION: Post RC, where to now for retail super?

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2019
... models of not-for-profit super funds, it didn't all go their way. Indeed the RC's recommendations for Australian workers to have a single default fund will be viewed by weaker industry funds as a savage blow. So too will the proposed limitations ...

Industry Super Australia attacks Future Fund concept

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2019
... workers' retirement savings into the Future Fund would be a costly mistake. According to Industry Super Australia, workers would be about $124,000 worse off if their superannuation was with the Future Fund, instead of a top performing industry fund. ...

Most clients coping with financial stress: Poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2019
... about their finances. A recent AMP study found 2.44 million Australians are experiencing financial stress. This leads to workers taking about 2.5 extra sick days a year and $31.1 billion in lost revenue for businesses. Financial stress tends to affect ...

Chief economist update: Good jobs bad jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2019
Pop that cork! Roll out the barrels... the barrels of fun! The Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) latest tracking of the labour market shows that we've got jobs and they're multiplying. Total employment grew by a greater-than-expected ...

Industry funds dominate member satisfaction

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 22 JAN 2019
... Productivity Commission's recommendation to create a list of 10 best-performing super funds as default options for new workers must take into account not just performance tables but also how members rate them. "The reason for including what fund members ...

Millions of Australian's suffering from financial stress: AMP

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 21 JAN 2019
... Australians, according to AMP. Releasing its Financial Wellness report this week, AMP said it found two in every five Australian workers faced financial stress during their careers, costing businesses billions of dollars. According to the report, the ...

Corporates can help solve retirement issue: BlackRock

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2019
... their traditional leadership role For much of the 20th century, in many countries, employers had a responsibility to help workers navigate retirement but that changed with the shift from defined benefit to defined contribution plans, Fink said. "Nearly ...

PC calls for group insurance review

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 11 JAN 2019
The Productivity Commission is calling for an independent public inquiry into group insurance and floated the possibility of tougher regulation that includes sharper ASIC oversight, among other recommendations. Recommendation 18 in the Productivity ...

Productivity Commission report puts banks first: ACTU

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 11 JAN 2019
... inevitably damage the performance of those funds. ACTU president and AustralianSuper alternate director Michele O'Neil said workers should always be represented in the superannuation system, and suggested future changes to super should involve expansion ...