Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 201 - 210 of 662 results for "expenditure"

New climate risk government bond index launches

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUL 2019
... investment grade government debt. "These issues have a direct and long-term impact on government finances, with projected expenditure on climate mitigation expected to reach almost $1 trillion a year for the next 30 years according to the United Nations' ...

How key is gender in retirement outcomes?

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 18 JUN 2019
... potential reform. Simplifying the Age Pension, embedding longevity adjustments and setting targets for Government expenditure were all offered by the assembled experts as options to reform the retirement income system, before the floor was opened to ...

The state of the banks

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAY 2019
... to KPMG data, risk and compliance expenses have risen to account for almost 40% of the big banks' total investment expenditure for the first half of this year. KPMG warned the banks will have to balance this expenditure with digitalisation and innovation ...

Federal Budget: Industry responds

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 APR 2019
... to superannuation policy was welcome after years of major modifications. Rubinsztein said the drag of age pension expenditure - which is forecast to grow by 17% over the four years to 2022-23 - was tempered by tighter means-testing, but noted aged care ...

Chief economist update: Cash rate should be 1%

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAR 2019
... without negatively impacting the Budget. Just have a read at what the ABS said about this: "Government final consumption expenditure rose 1.8% in the December quarter 2018 and remains strong through the year at 5.6%. National non-defence (4.2%) was the ...

Chief economist update: BOJ exit last year, BOJ easing this year

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 FEB 2019
... came from private demand (0.5 percentage points), of which private consumption (0.3 percentage points) and capital expenditure (0.4 percent). In addition, public demand added 0.1 percentage points..." But it's not domestic demand that's Japan's ...

Chief economist update: Where sentiment goes, there too is spending

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 FEB 2019
The University of Michigan's latest update on consumer confidence indicates that there's hope still for household spending. Recall the reported big drop in US retail spending (down 1.2% in the month of December) that I penned is consistent with ...

Chief economist update: UK economy slows on Brexit woes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 FEB 2019
... year from £3.225 billion in Q4 2017. "The greater effects from Brexit uncertainties at home". Gross fixed capital expenditure declined by 1.4% year-on-year in the December quarter following a 0.3% fall in the previous quarter led by the 3.7% drop in ...

Chief economist update: US consumer sentiment cops bullet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 JAN 2019
"Not happy, Jan!" For the young ones, the quote refers to Telstra's "yellow pages" advertisement back in the days before the internet, when you, I and Irene scoured through pages and pages (two volumes of it) of listings to buy stuff or get our ...

Budget surplus unlikely as economy stalls: Fitch

OSKAH DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 15 JAN 2019
... of GDP. Fitch's report also said the Federal Government will counter economic fatigue through increased federal expenditure. They say this is an attempt to "support the economy going into 2020." The mining industry is also expected to face economic ...