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Corporate bond demand strengthens: Report

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAY 2018
... cash, equity and property markets, you start to see a pickup in interest and activity," Stening said. But compared to other OECD countries, Australia's uptake of corporate bonds lagged drastically - less than 1% of the corporate bonds are issued domestically ...

Retirement spending declines faster than believed: Research

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAY 2018
... target replacement rate of 70% of final earnings, which is used by Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and Melbourne Mercer Global Pension Index, does not reflect the experience of individual retirees as they age, though it ...

Shuttering dividend cash loophole to hit SMSFs

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAR 2018
... and now individuals - many wealthy individuals - were getting a cash bonus, Labor said. Australia incidentally is the only OECD country with a fully refundable dividend imputation credit system - a concession which has grown at a rapid rate and now costs ...

Only way is up for global economy: Baur

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 9 JAN 2018
... the 3.5% range or maybe a little more and it could pick up in the next couple of quarters," he said. "If you look at the OECD - they track 45 countries - and I believe at last count all 45 were growing, and 30 of them were accelerating. We expect this ...

America is full

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 DEC 2017
... have been exerting upward pressure on wages and by extension, inflation. Oxford Economics estimate the US NAIRU at 4.3%, the OECD has it at 4.9% and closer the home, the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis places both the short- and long-term natural rate ...

Capex brings cheer

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 DEC 2017
... a reading of 57.3 in November from 51.1 in the previous month also fits with the optimism over the outlook for capex. The OECD and those calling for a rate hike by the second half of next year might be correct after all. The improvement in capex indicates ...

OECD tells RBA to take a hike

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 NOV 2017
... and household incomes will sustain private consumption, and inflation and wages will pick up gradually." This is how the OECD sees Australia's future (at least over the next two years) as written in its 'Australia - Economic forecast summary (November ...

Banks will step out of wealth: Medcraft

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 31 OCT 2017
... partners to do the review' which in turn would lead to less time needed to complete reviews," Medcraft said. The soon-to-be OECD director said ASIC supported the development of sector specific codes of conduct because the alternative was the regulator ...

Pension fund consortium acquires renewable energy portfolio

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 26 OCT 2017
... strategy since its founding five years ago." The transaction positions GIP as a dominant renewable energy developer in the key OECD growth markets of Australia and Japan, as well as across India and South East Asia. Equis Energy chair David Russell said ...

Australia lax in fighting financial crime

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 OCT 2017
... which is currently "diffused." He added that the Australian Government has been criticised over a number of years by the OECD in terms of what it does, how it manages the issue and how proactively it takes the lead. Waldren noted that regulationon on ...