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Chief economist update: Cloudy 2020 vision for OECD

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 NOV 2019
Scratch that and lower it to 2.9%. In its 'Interim Economic Outlook' report published on September 19, the OECD lowered its world economic growth forecast from 3.6% in 2018 to 2.9% (down from 3.2% forecast in May 2019) this year and 3.0% (down ...

No room for policy mistakes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 OCT 2019
... be pushed into poverty and global income could fall by as much as $1.4 trillion." Their warnings were also preceded by the OECD and the WTO. In its 'Interim Economic Outlook' report published on the 19th of September, the OECD lowered its world ...

Chief economist update: Japan tightens fiscal policy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 OCT 2019
... (IMF), the World Bank (WB), the World Trade Organisation (WTO) and the Organisation for Economic Development and Cooperation (OECD) - Japan does the opposite. Japan effectively tightened fiscal policy on October 1 when the Abe government's twice-postponed ...

Chief economist update: Synchronised forecasts for a synchronised slowdown

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 OCT 2019
... poverty and global income could fall by as much as $1.4 trillion." But both these reports have already been telegraphed by the OECD and the WTO. In its 'Interim Economic Outlook' report published on September 19, the OECD lowered its world economic ...

Australia slips in global retirement ranks

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 30 SEP 2019
... population, which is why our retirement age is set to increase to 67 in 2023." "Along with Denmark, we are the first of a number of OECD countries to take this step - the United States and Spain are next in 2027." However, Natixis managing director for ...

Macquarie unveils green ambitions in New York

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2019
... the UN Summit this week, Macquarie's plans include delivering around 4GW of its renewable energy project pipeline in non-OECD emerging market countries, overcoming historically weaker climate finance flows in those nations. Many of the projects are set ...

Chief economist update: China's great leap forward 70 years in the making

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2019
... OECD's interim projections still forecast 6.1% growth for the Chinese economy this year. Next year is the problem where the OECD expects China's economy to grow by only 5.7% (downgraded from 6% in its May forecast). The continued deterioration ...

Treasury agreed with Grattan SG modelling

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 24 SEP 2019
... retirement income of at least 91% of their pre-retirement income, even after allowing for inflation, which is well above OECD levels. Superannuation leaders panned Grattan's SG recommendation, which it published as a part of a November 2018 report ...

Chief economist update: Time for a Keynes comeback

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 SEP 2019
... to implementing even greater accommodation (if needed). The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development's (OECD) latest downgrade to world economic growth underscores the advanced country central banks' seeming impotence at turning ...

Whitehelm launches infrastructure fund locally

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 29 AUG 2019
... risks to their equity portfolios given the current market volatility. Net of fees, the European version has outperformed its OECD CPI + 5% benchmark since inception in May 2016 by 4.8% per annum. Whitehelm said the fund typically aimed for core infrastructure ...