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PROFILE: NAB Financial Planning general manager Paul Fog

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 23 NOV 2015
... HR support and technology - we utilise all of our skills in those spaces to help these people transition into self-employment. It's been very successful; we've now got an end-to-end career pathway for people." Fog adds that the next step is to "take ...

NAB and FPA back super in PPL

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 NOV 2015
... submission said. The FPA said the government should extend caps on concessional contributions to enable workers with broken employment patterns to maximise their superannuation account balances. Other major proposals from NAB include simplifying the ...

Mother's Day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 NOV 2015
... understatement. It'll be monumental." Expectations for a December lift-off would rise or fall depending on whether the actuals - employment add, unemployment rate, average weekly earnings, etc. - beat or disappoint market expectations. So what is the ...

Good tidings sway RBA to stay

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 NOV 2015
... suggest a gradual improvement in conditions over the past year. This has been accompanied by somewhat stronger growth in employment and a steady rate of unemployment." True. The latest NAB business survey shows confidence recovering to a plus 5 reading ...

Pick a number

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 NOV 2015
... response to changes in inflation, output, or other economic conditions. It is intended to foster price stability and full employment by systematically reducing uncertainty and increasing the credibility of future actions by the central bank. It may also ...

December lift-off, yeah, sure

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 OCT 2015
... growth slowing to 136K in August from 223K in July - they didn't lift. Even in June they didn't lift when they saw employment picked up by 260K in May from 187K in the previous month. The Labour Market Conditions Index (LMCI) was 1.6 in May, 1.2 in August ...

Not this year

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 OCT 2015
... take here (http://www.markiteconomics.com/Survey/PressRelease.mvc/8f6534b89b5a4308907cdb7b93d66e6f), but as regards employment: "Reduced pressure on operating capacity in turn led to softer employment growth within the service sector during October. ...

Sunrise, sunset

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2015
... suggesting lower trade volumes with China was the main contributing factor behind the fall in exports. Consequently, both employment and buying activity decreased". and on... This is consistent with the Bank of Japan's (BOJ) Tankan survey that showed ...

ASIC bans former Westpac-aligned adviser

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2015
... representative of Magnitude Group, a Westpac subsidiary, from February 2013 to August 2014. Westpac terminated her employment in August, and reported its concerns about her conduct to ASIC in December 2014. According to ASIC's statement, Ritchie created ...

FEATURE: Investing in a world on hold

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2015
... means: "The move to higher interest rates in the US should be viewed as a positive. The economy is improving, full employment has been met and there will be more confidence in the inflation outlook." A quest for yield "One year ago, people thought that ...