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Financial comfort reliant on fiscal support: ME Bank

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUL 2020
... months to June 2020, marginally short of its historic high of 5.78, recorded in 2014. ME Bank's consulting economist Jeff Oughton attributed the high financial comfort to a combination of prudent financial actions by households in response to the pandemic ...

Chief economist update: Not before we get a pay rise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 AUG 2018
... quarter from 1.5% in the three-months to December 2017. This has an ominous foreboding. As Consulting Economist for ME, Jeff Oughton warns: "Clearly, this is a potential tipping point. At the moment, Australians generally can dip into their savings to ...

Former Suncorp executive joins ME Bank

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 6 FEB 2017
... first published in 2011. Respondents rated their comfort as 5.55 out of 10. According to ME consulting economist Jeff Oughton, the reasons for income concerns were clear. "Only 32% of households reported 'income gains' over the past year - one of the ...
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