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PROFILE: State Street Global Advisors CEO Lochiel Crafter

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2014
... - career lesson. Born in a small village in South Australia, Crafter moved to Geelong as a child; and later studied statistics in the University of New South Wales, in Sydney. "I found statistics interesting; I liked the pure abstract nature of mathematics ...

Slow and steady as she goes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2014
... significant deceleration either). Then again, this report could well be just as quickly forgotten when the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) releases the official jobs tally for June... but this, too, had been trending sideways since 2011. You, I and ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2014
... Economists (ACE) and the Econometric Society Australasian Meeting (ESAM) in Hobart. Meanwhile, the Australian Bureau of Statistics releases building approvals and the retail trade figures, both for May, while the Australian Industry Group's Australian ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUL 2014
... (0.66 per cent) to 1,973.20. Both were new records. Locally, in economic news on Wednesday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) is due to release May's international trade in goods and services data. Reserve Bank of Australia assistant governor ...

Social media business use up 25pct

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 23 JUN 2014
... Australia had a social media presence in June 2013, according to survey results just released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics. This is up one quarter from one in five the previous year. Growth in social media use by business is accompanied by ...

Financial services falling behind in online transactions

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2014
... behind other sectors in online business transactions, according to data released this week by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). The report -- Summary of IT Use and Innovation in Australian Business 2012-13 -- reveals that despite the rapid changes ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUN 2014
... Tuesday the Reserve Bank of Australia releases the minutes of its monthly board meeting, while the Australian Bureau of Statistics issues May's new motor vehicle sales figures and the merchandise imports data for the same month. In equities news, Woolworths ...

Women to feel pain of scrapped LISC

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 16 JUN 2014
... Contribution (LISC) scheme, according to Industry Super Australia (ISA). Using figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), ISA calculated that in New South Wales, 43.3% of women will be affected by the scrapping of the LISC. In Victoria that ...

Crime pays: Why new European GDP rules are causing a stir

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2014
... added to GDP was estimated to be between 16.9% and 17.5% of the Italian economy in 2008. The UK's Office for National Statistics estimated last month that the contribution made to national output by sex workers and the illegal drug trade in the UK was ...

Mother's Day Classic raises $4.5m for breast cancer

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUN 2014
... fundraised and donated to Mother's Day Classic 2014, the funds raised will continue to have a real impact on survival statistics and help answer research questions for breast cancer and for a range of other cancers." Far and away the highest team fundraiser ...