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BlackRock moves to machine stock picking

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAR 2017
... restructured its active equities product offering and affirmed its plans to integrate artificial intelligence, hinting that future jobs will be aligned with robots. In positioning itself for the future, the world's largest fund manager declared the active ...

Confident with a capital C

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAR 2017
... by 18.3% from a year earlier; the S&P/Case-Shiller House price index increased by 5.7% in the year to January - and better jobs and higher income prospects have lifted American consumers' moods. On jobs, those saying that jobs are "hard to get" declined ...

More fires than hires

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAR 2017
... dropped by 6,400 in February following the addition of 13,500 workers in the previous month as a 33,500 decline in part-time jobs overwhelmed the 27,100 gain in full-time positions. This represented a big miss on market expectations for an addition of ...

No other way but up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 MAR 2017
... the increase in the participation rate from 62.9% to 6.30% -- indicating both increased optimism among workers of landing jobs and the economic strength. The gains in US equities -- Dow up 0.2%, S&P up 0.3%, Nasdaq up 0.4%, Russell 2000 up 0.4% -- and ...

Jobs, jobs, jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 MAR 2017
Financial markets don't track the ADP private payrolls report as closely as they do the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) employment report but if ADP's estimate for February is any guide, the official US non-farm payrolls report (due out at the end ...

Forward thinking must underpin advice: Vanguard

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAR 2017
... realise that the strong acceleration of technological change is the true underlining cause. According to Vanguard, 87% of jobs will fall to technological advancement, as opposed to 13% to globalisation. Predicting a climate of lower than expected returns ...

Australia missing golden export opportunity

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAR 2017
... funds management services contributes $336 million directly to the economy and is responsible for 1426 full-time equivalent jobs. If policy accommodated further management of offshore funds, these figures could be substantially higher. FSC senior policy ...

Hostplus commits further to Australian VC

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 28 FEB 2017
... management team and the board of Hostplus, high-growth Australian ventures might struggle to build traction, create new products, jobs, have material exits and go on to motivate, support and inspire a new and even larger number of innovative, risk-taking ...

Boring but the trend is our friend

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 FEB 2017
... participation rate to 64.6% from 64.7% in December helps explain this - indicating that workers are discouraged from looking for jobs. This is underscored in the February Westpac Melbourne Institute consumer sentiment survey that showed "unemployment ...

Workers missing out on $147m in super: REST

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  THURSDAY, 16 FEB 2017
... guarantee in circumstances where they won't be. This is a growing problem, particularly among young women who work multiple jobs, and earn less in each role than previously." The research also found that less than half of employees (44%) surveyed believe ...