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Not-for-profits winning but master trusts catching up

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 15 DEC 2006
... by two-thirds in just the last three years. According to research just released by Rainmaker, in 2003-04 the gap for workplace super funds was 2.8 per cent, in 2004-05 the gap was 1.8 per cent but by 2005-06 the gap was only 1.1 per cent. Andrew Keevers ...

FinLit database to identify gaps and overlaps

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 5 DEC 2006
... database of financial literacy programmes, apprentices can use vouchers for financial literacy education, our work on workplace financial literacy continues, and we have some new education materials listed under our Essential Elements quality process," ...

Access Economics still top consultant: Rainmaker

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 5 DEC 2006
... that asset allocation weightings varied considerably," said Keevers. For example, said Keevers, "When looking at the Workplace Super funds, balanced options were used by 91 percent as the default while only 70 percent of Personal Super funds were using ...

Beware of Christmas credit card fraud

... added attractions such as reduced interest rates or deferred payments for 18 months or more. But Tony Beck, head of workplace business at Members Equity Bank agreed that consumers need to be extra vigilant during the shopping season. "Criminals are getting ...

Members Equity offering saving without fees

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 27 NOV 2006
... products were in line with the philosophy of fair, simple and high quality banking. Tony Beck, executive manager of workplace business, said the two new products had been designed after asking customers what they wanted most from their bank. "MEB has ...

LGSS reaps $6m from SRI

... shorted companies engaged in gambling, armaments, uranium mining, logging old-growth forests and those that have poor workplace practices. "Next year we intend to widen the scope of this approach to our international equity holdings and our other investment ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 OCT 2006
... quarter, a likely indicator of future interest rate moves, will be a focus of the market. The Department of Employment and Workplace Relations will also release its skilled job vacancies index for October. In corporate news, Air New Zealand, Origin Energy ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 24 OCT 2006
... that 64 per cent were employed during their pregnancy and 9 per cent said that their status had caused them to miss workplace training opportunities and 7 per cent missed promotions as a result. Access Economics has reported that the current resources ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 OCT 2006
... March of this year about three times as many workers have undertaken collective agreements as have signed individual workplace agreements under the Federal governments' Work Choices industrial relations scheme. Union agreements cover about 60 per cent ...

Slow tech roll-outs putting off tech-savvy Gen Y

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 17 OCT 2006
A workplace planning and culture specialist has found that the slow implementation of new communications technologies by financial services providers is impeding staff performance and damaging employee attraction and retention, particularly for tech-savvy ...