We lead this week on the important debate on superannuation that everyone except John Key seems to want to have with some interesting research which shows that an overwhelming majority of Kiwis support compulsory KiwiSaver scheme. And Sir Stephen Tindall takes up the cudgels on behalf of business lobby group Pure Advantage. Its latest New Zealand’s Position in the Green Race report shows we’re lagging behind other countries in the race to grab slice of the NZ$6 trillion global green growth industry. Read more »
Most New Zealanders are firmly in favour of making contributions to national retirement savings scheme compulsory, survey being released today shows. Read more »
Another survey released by the ASB shows while awareness of the importance of superannuation is increasing many of us aren’t saving nearly enough for our retirement. Read more »
New Zealand urgently needs to improve its own environmental record to protect the clean, green image that benefits the sale of much of what we produce and export, recent report from business lobby group Pure Advantage argues. Read more »
There are some signs of improvement in New Zealand’s sluggish labour market with the latest SEEK New Job Ad Index revealing 6.4% year-on-year increase in the number of new jobs. Read more »
The global economic outlook has deteriorated sharply in recent weeks, according to the latest edition of the World Economic Forum’s Chief Economists’ Outlook. The forum says that nearly nine in 10
The latest Productivity Propelled report, commissioned by 2degrees and prepared by Deloitte Access Economics, provides one of the first New Zealand-specific datasets linking AI adoption to firm-level productivity.
The Australia-New Zealand Closer Economic Relations agreement remains one of the most successful trade agreements in the world, but its next phase will look very different, according to a recent NZIER Insight.