The SME Stream

Tonight on The Huddle, broadcaster Mark Sainsbury and Thomas Scrimgeour from the Maxim Institute joined in on a discussion about the following issues of the day - and more!
The Government has confirmed it plans to investigate the City Rail Link project, after reports revealed it could have cost $2 billion less. Do we think this review is needed?
Is it time to lift the Super age from 65? Another economist has warned we can't keep kicking the can down the road. What do we think?
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The Finance Minister says the Government's going to have to do something about Superannuation.
An OECD report warns if current policy settings continue, we could be spending 5% more of our GDP on health, long-term care, and pensions by 2060.
Minister Nicola Willis says the cost for superannuation is going up billions of dollars, while there are fewer workers for every pensioner.
She told Mike Hosking the cost is also rising as a proportion of taxes.
Willis says it will soon account for 20%, and every dollar spent isn't available for education, health, and infrastructure.
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The cost of computer components has shot up, and there's concerns about what it could mean for the tech sector.
The shortage of memory chips has prompted tech investors to worry about what this could mean for the market.
Sam Dickie from Fisher Funds explained further.
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New Zealand's treading water, with a warning our increasingly overloaded pension system isn't sustainable.
The latest OECD snapshot of our economy suggests unless we adjust systems, including the costs of health, long-term care and pension will increase by about five percent of GDP by 2060.
It says it could be countered by changes including upping Superannuation contributions.
Economist Cameron Bagrie says we can't keep kicking the can down the road - and that we need to address entitlements, through lifting the retirement age or means testing.
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The rise in AI has seen demand for professionally written CVs in a bid to stand out against algorithms.
Experts say while AI can be useful to screen hundreds of applicants faster, it's created a transparency gap between employers and jobseekers.
CVs by Sarah director Sarah Wrightson says the screening software rules out applicants before a human gets a chance to look at their CVs, and it results in qualified applicants getting filtered out.
"I've had clients come to me saying that they've applied for 80 jobs and heard nothing back - and often, they've actually got really solid experience. The software's looking for alignment and clarity, humans read context, the software doesn't."
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