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Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 6 FEB 2007
... than the recent peak of October 2004. Another measure of the job market calculated by the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations, skilled vacancy series, increased by 1.4 per cent in January which was up from the 0.9 per cent growth in December. ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 18 JAN 2007
... time high the warning signs about the employment cycle have begun to trickle through. The Department of Employment and Workplace Relations says that its Leading Indicator of Employment has now declined for the past seven months and they confirm that ...

HESTA gives members free super advice

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JAN 2007
HESTA Super Fund has announced it will offer all its members free superannuation planning advice in the workplace through its network of Superannuation Service Advisers (SSA). HESTA members can arrange to meet an SSA in their workplace for personal ...

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 ...