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Income only falls by 11% in retirement: Grattan

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 16 APR 2019
... percentage point revision to its earlier projections published in November. "This is well above the 70% benchmark endorsed by the OECD, and more than enough to maintain pre-retirement living standards," Grattan said. "Many low-income Australians will ...

Perpetual raising $440m for credit trust

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 25 MAR 2019
... deposits," Korber said. "On a global scale, Australians have one of the lowest allocations to fixed income assets in the OECD. Generally, individual investors may find it difficult to create a diversified portfolio of fixed income assets because some ...

Chief economist update: Prepare for lift-off

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 MAR 2019
... are so far in the world in 2019 and it'll be so perfectly rational to extrapolate growth in the global economy - the OECD has just downgraded its global growth forecasts to 3.3% this year (from 3.5% predicted in November 2018) and 3.4% in 2020 (from ...

Curtain call for industry body after 96 years

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 14 JAN 2019
... lifetime of a pensioner, Illidge said many former government employees are now living in or are on the brink of poverty. The OECD estimates about one-third of elderly Australians are living below the poverty line. The group's closure serves as a ...

Chief economist update: Aussie property market drop becoming self-fulfilling

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 DEC 2018
... property. So much so that the latest detailed report on Australia by the Organisation for Economic Development and Cooperation (OECD) warned that, although the "current trajectory" of falling house prices "would suggest a soft landing... some risk of ...

Chief economist update: Predictions allude to frozen RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 NOV 2018
... already about the case of the slowdown in global growth. The Organisations for Economic Development and Cooperation's (OECD) recently-released the OECD Economic Outlook and Interim Economic Outlook report merely formalised this "known known" and ...

Swiss manager invests in Queensland solar

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 15 NOV 2018
... Australia to distribute and market the fund. It's looking to raise capital in the country with two of its funds: the SUSI OECD energy transition fund and the SUSI Asia energy transition fund. The OECD strategy will target 9-12% in returns. It has ...

Grattan says Aussies retiring comfortably, ISA responds

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 NOV 2018
... expect retirement income of at least 91% of their pre-retirement income, even after allowing for inflation. This is above the OECD-endorsed 70% benchmark. Hence the legislation to ramp up compulsory super contributions to 12% should be scrapped, putting ...

Aussies second-most optimistic about retirement: SSGA

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 12 OCT 2018
... levels of happiness against how their country's retirement system fare on global rankings such as the Mercer Index and OECD. Research found a disparity between the two. Australia ranked three on OECD data, second on Mercer's score. It was second ...

Cbus invests in UK infrastructure

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 12 OCT 2018
... the rest of the world. Cbus' $4.5 billion infrastructure portfolio has assets are spread across Australia, the UK and OECD countries. It also has a decade-long partnership with Dexus in Australia, under which it has developed and taken stakes in ...