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TAL hired private investigator to follow claimant: Royal Commission

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 13 SEP 2018
... tax records, GP's medical records, psychiatrist's records, Medicare history, private health insurance claims history, workers compensation file and employee assistance program. TAL then said the nurse had breached her duty of disclosure by failing to ...

Hostplus VC assets to hit $1bn

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 10 SEP 2018
... to start is to establish an unambiguous, apolitical public policy and then created incentives to nudge young people and workers in directions that are best for Australia's future, Sicilia said. Hostplus head of investment strategy Greg Clerk, who spoke ...

Super industry welcomes Age Pension backflip

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 6 SEP 2018
... that the Morrison government has abandoned Coalition plans to increase the pension age," Linden said. "Forcing manual workers, in particular, to stay at it until 70 would have been unreasonable". Linden said Australians did not want to work until they ...

Drought-hit farmers turn to advice

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 3 SEP 2018
... of about two years ago came with a few career lessons. About 120 of his firm's clients are either wage agricultural workers or farm owners. Many of them are 60 years or older and have more assets than Centrelink would accept for support. But what ...

AustralianSuper secures WestConnex stake

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 31 AUG 2018
... AustralianSuper chief investment officer Mark Delaney said the deal will boost economic growth and employ thousands of workers while providing returns that will contribute to the long term retirement savings of the fund's members. "WestConnex is ...

Workers want extra super contributions: Research

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 AUG 2018
... employer to make additional super contributions to support financial wellbeing. The report said one-third of the 1000 workers surveyed believe their company cares about their financial wellbeing, and 29% cite a lack of retirement savings as a cause for ...

Millennials looking for impact: Research

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 23 AUG 2018
... asset manager released results of its sixth annual survey of American retirement savers, which shows eight in every ten workers wish they could have saved more when they were younger. Additionally, workers said they would tell their younger selves to ...

Chief economist update: Don't mind the gap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 AUG 2018
Hear ye, hear ye... the unemployment gap has closed! The loss of 3900 workers (versus expectations for a 15,000 addition) may have made for sobering reading on the Australian labour market but this was a small give from the 58,200 additional workers ...

Chief economist update: Small business is big business

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 AUG 2018
... July) and in job creation plans (up from 20 in June to 23 in July) - with 23% citing the difficulty of finding qualified workers as their "single most important business problem." As such, a record net 32% of respondents reported wage increases in July ...

Commitment to ethical investing booms

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 9 AUG 2018
... the countries the money is invested in. "That is what will attract capital to the country over time - they treat their workers better, earn better money, live longer and have higher living standards," Gey van Pittius said.