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Chief economist update: Australian wages slow but still grow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 NOV 2020
... November from 122.2 in the previous month - indicating that more respondents expect higher unemployment. Consumers expecting job losses would go slow on shopping and save before slow wages growth become nil wages.

Hume scrutinises super fund spend

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 16 NOV 2020
Senator Jane Hume is cracking down on how superannuation funds spend members' money and subjecting them to the same stringent reporting and disclosure requirements as publicly-listed companies. The Minister for Superannuation, Financials Services ...

Chief economist update: Letter V going viral in Australia

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 NOV 2020
... profitability (+4 from +1). The employment component also improved but remains in the negative (-5 from -6) suggesting continued job retrenchment albeit, at a slower pace. Before this, the letter V had already been spotted in the AiG Performance indices. ...

Aware Super backs electricity transition

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 10 NOV 2020
Aware Super is voicing its support for the state government's initiative to modernise the electricity system for New South Wales. The NSW government's newly-unveiled Electricity Infrastructure Roadmap aims to transition the state's electricity supply ...

Chief economist update: China's vote for US president

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 NOV 2020
A new POTUS or four more years with the old one? America remains on knife-edge as the November 3 US presidential elections show that President Donald Trump and contender Joe Biden still have to secure the 270 electoral votes to claim the Oval Office. ...

Super funds bullish on hiring

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 NOV 2020
... sentiment for candidates in this sector with many candidates we have worked with during the last six months receiving multiple job offers, and salary increases when they are prepared to move," he added. Some of the skills in demand were in data (particularly ...

Climate change greater threat than COVID: Report

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 2 NOV 2020
... support low-emission pathways, and actions to stimulate investment in low-emission investments can strengthen economic growth job creation. The report said it needs to be about high-growth industries such as mining new minerals for new technologies ...

Lift in financial services jobs

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 30 OCT 2020
The broader job market is showing signs of recovery, particularly in the financial services industry, which recorded a 21% rise in hiring activity in the September quarter. Overall, the job market rose by 15% mostly driven by the demand for casual employment ...

Chief economist update: Not out of the woods

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 OCT 2020
The US has reversed its biggest economic contraction in history with the sharpest recovery on record. The US Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) reported that the country's GDP increased at annualised rate of 33.1% in the September 2020 quarter following ...

Evans and Partners looks to delist LITs

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 29 OCT 2020
... closed-ended listed funds comes after Evans & Partners reported a statutory loss of $30.5 million in FY20, a year that included job cuts, leadership changes and troubles with its US real estate fund. Since then, ASIC has identified breaches in its advisory ...