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Magellan eyes 'exponential growth' from second machine age

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 2 AUG 2016
... augmented reality, intelligent virtual assistants such as Apple's Siri, the digitisation of goods, the automation of white collar jobs, the development of autonomous robots and advances in medical technology leading to major breakthroughs in longevity. ...

ATO on phoenix watch

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 1 AUG 2016
... to fund essential services. The ATO added a phoenix company is often able to undercut other contractors when bidding for jobs, leaving its competitors out of work, whilst the controllers of the phoenix company continue to rip off its employees and su ...

Pre-retirees adopting sharing economy

KERRIE SYDEE  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUL 2016
... employment for a potentially large group of Australians who are keen to work, but might find it challenging to find traditional jobs." The report found that over two thirds (68%) of Australians indicated they were willing to use sharing economy services ...

Trust ahead of returns for member retention

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUL 2016
Members who have changed jobs since joining Equip have for the first time ranked trust ahead of investment returns as the reason for sticking with the fund. In Equip's 2016 member survey conducted by CoreData, just over a third of these 730 members ...

Economic Wrap

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUL 2016
... Zealand is Australia's sixth largest export market accounting for 4% of all exports. Resource sector in Canada to create 65,000 jobs A report by the Conference Board of Canada into the Canadian resources sector says despite volatility in the sector that ...

Tasplan and RBF merger confirmed

KERRIE SYDEE  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUL 2016
... only make Tasplan more competitive at a national level over the longer term; it will also promote economic growth via new jobs and local investment. An even more secure and sustainable Tasmanian super fund is an extremely positive outcome for members ...

Economic Wrap

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 19 JUL 2016
... Bruce Hockman. The trend unemployment rate remained steady at 5.7%. The participation rate also remained steady at 64.8%. IT jobs boom Employers are intending to hire more technology staff over the remainder of this year, according to survey of more ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUL 2016
Australian employment The number of Australians who found jobs in June may have been less than market expectations - up 7,900 versus consensus forecast for a 10,000 increase - but the underlying details of the report provided positive underpinnings ...

Returning Fed hike expectations could be flattened by yield curve

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 JUL 2016
... speculators to put risk back on onto their portfolios. Fear, it seems, has left the building... or driven out by the strong US jobs numbers. The VIX index closed 10.6% down to a reading of 13.2 - and down on the day the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUL 2016
... to its fastest pace since January this year was offset by a decline in business confidence to fresh record lows and easing jobs growth to 17-month lows....or improved a lot - the Institute of Supply Management's (ISM) non-manufacturing index jumped to ...