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Grattan calls for lower super fees

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 2 MAR 2020
... Grattan, Australia's $30 billion annual super fee bill - which it pointed out is around 2% of national gross domestic product - is higher than that paid by many other nations. The institute said the Productivity Commission's "best in show" system would ...

Light on horizon for global economy

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 21 JAN 2020
... experiences the weakest growth since the Global Financial Crisis, but the IMF is expected 2020 to deliver global gross domestic product growth of 3.3%. The IMF published its expectations in its report titled World Economic Outlook outlining growth is ...

VanEck launches new income product

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2020
... very high. Other than Switzerland, Australia has the highest level of household debt as a percentage of gross domestic product in the developed world," it said. Neiron said economic growth will continue to be sluggish indefinitely thanks to poor business ...

Chief economist update: Bushfires singe growth, surplus predictions

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2020
... article: "Economists polled by Reuters forecast Australia's A$2 trillion ($1.4 trillion) of annual gross domestic product (GDP) would expand 1.8% in 2019, down from predictions of 1.9% in the previous poll and 2.7% early last year." "Growth was seen ...

Centuria acquires fund manager

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAY 2019
... traditional real estate sectors. It pointed out healthcare was one of the largest contributors to Australia's gross domestic product at 10.3%, according to the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Centuria chief executive John McBain said the ...

Chief economist update: A tariff for a tariff

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAY 2019
... Oxford Economics' chief US economist: Imposing tariffs on all U.S.-China trade would reduce global gross domestic product by 0.5 percent by 2020... if the bilateral tensions spiral into a full-blown global trade war, we would expect this to trigger ...

Chief economist update: Countdown to T-day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAY 2019
... Bloomberg reports on the consequence, writing: "Imposing tariffs on all U.S/China trade would reduce global gross domestic product by 0.5% by 2020, Oxford Economics chief U.S. economist Gregory Daco said in a research note Thursday, adding: "if the bilateral ...

Australia back in the black

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 2 APR 2019
... last year. The net debt is expected to peak in 2018-2019 when we will have a net debt that is 19.2% of the gross domestic product. Gross debt peaked in 2017-18 at less than 30 per cent of GDP. Over the medium term, it is projected to fall below the 30-year ...

Australia in effective recession: Academic

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAR 2019
... the University of New South Wales. Yesterday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics posted a 0.2% growth in gross domestic product for the three months to December 2018. Consumer spending grew at 0.4% in the quarter. GDP per capita shrunk in both Q3 and ...

Chief economist update: The winter of Australia's discontent

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 OCT 2018
... Farmers' Federation: "The agricultural sector, at farm-gate, contributes 3% to Australia's total gross domestic product (GDP). The gross value of Australian farm production in 2016-17 was $60 billion. "Australian farmers export about 77% of what ...