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Job openings in America

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 OCT 2017
It lags the US non-farm payrolls report but the US JOLTS (job openings and labor turnover summary) a handy check on the state of the US labour market. The Bureau of Labor Statistics'(BLS) latest update showed little change in August from July: job openings ...

Technology will shape financial services

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 OCT 2017
... places of work, how long we work for and our lives and expectancies in retirement are not designed for people who live to 100, let alone over it. We need to flip our thinking and re-design the world that we live in for a future that is sustainable and ...

Soft skills the new pages in adviser playbook

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 OCT 2017
... flexible with the emotional rollercoaster that comes with the industry, including among advisers' own practices and businesses let alone clients. Kewin said while the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority (FASEA) had barely put their feet ...

FS Live Blog: 2017 AFA National Adviser Conference

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 10 OCT 2017
... through grief. Lots of practical tips. Social media #AFAau was alight with tweets. One that got the most reaction: "Don't let anyone 'should' about you." AFA CEO Phil Kewin goes onstage and talks about the importance of mental health and wellbeing. "Many ...

We cannot underestimate humans: Sicilia

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 9 OCT 2017
... adverse outcomes and have the ability to bounce back when bad things happen. "Humans are adaptable, flexible, and they don't let catastrophe derail them for too long," Sicilia said. "They can take advantage and protect themselves by doing A instead of ...

Interest rates on ice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 OCT 2017
... accommodation". The problem is "Growth in housing debt has been outpacing the slow growth in household incomes for some time." Let's not bother with household incomes - it's household disposable income that matters because this is what you, I and Irene ...

Former Financial Wisdom adviser banned

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 29 SEP 2017
A former authorised representative of Financial Wisdom has been permanently banned from providing financial services. Koresh Daniel Houghton was found to have engaged in misleading, deceptive and dishonest conduct and failed to act in his clients' best ...

A matter of assumptions

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 SEP 2017
... Only time will tell who's correct. Then again, the experts cold still change their minds as new data comes out. But for now, let's go back to the 'Taylor Rule' - "a reduced form approximation of the responsiveness of the nominal interest rate, as set ...

European $1bn asset manager enters Australia

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 21 SEP 2017
... markets are property in the UK, Germany, the Netherlands and Spain; assets include retail real estate, hotels, offices and multi-let campuses. Its investors include family offices, the Cubic Property Fund and other private investors. Now the manager ...

The British pound's sterling reversal

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 SEP 2017
... few months, despite the unemployment rate dropping to a 42-year low (May 1975) of 4.3% in the three months to July - yes, a let up in escalating consumer prices could help support household consumption. Real wage growth has been negative since February ...