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Wagging the giant doggie

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUN 2014
... (has it ever gone away?), Russia's building up troops on Ukraine's border (38,000 and counting according to Ukraine) and the IMF has just released fresh forecasts for the US economy (crystal ball now shows growth at a flat 2.0% this year - down from ...

Aussie, Aussie, Aussie, Oi, Oi, Oi

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 JUN 2014
... don't have scope to lower rates further mainly due to high property prices (the third highest in the world according to the IMF). Rational rationales to extrapolations... for now.

Federal Court finds S&P guilty in landmark ruling

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2014
... with investors who use rating opinions, yet impose no responsibility on those investors to conduct their own due diligence." IMF Australia funded the action against S&P, ABN AMRO and LGFS. Its executive director John Walker said the judgment not only ...

OMFG! Australia could lose an A

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAY 2014
... Just have a look at the table of all still AAA-rated countries below - patiently compiled by yours truly using data from the IMF, The Economist, Trading Economics and the CIA Factbook. Doesn't look like Australia's government finances are that dire is ...

Court rules against S&P in Lehmann Brothers class action

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2014
... S&P seeks to recover the balance of losses suffered after funds received from the settlement. Third-party litigator Bentham IMF represents some of the claimants and its executive director John Walker said that S&P used a "delaying tactic" that has "backfired ...

ECB to stay in May

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAY 2014
... April's number marks the seventh straight month that euro area inflation had been below 1.0% -- or as dear Christine of the IMF calls it "low-flation". The ECB targets 2.0% inflation. It was precisely this threat of "low-deflation" turning into de-flation ...

Treasurer readies electorate for Age Pension cuts

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2014
... Hockey has placed the Age Pension in his sights. In a speech he presented earlier this month in Washington, the Treasurer cited IMF recommendations for more countries to consider raising their pension ages, before hinting that this government was considering ...

FSC lobbies against super "7 year gap"

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 APR 2014
... you reach 67," Brogden explained. He spoke following Treasurer Joe Hockey's citation of the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) recommendation that more countries should consider raising their pension ages during a speech in 'The Global Age of Responsibility ...

Protection needed if pension age increased: AIST

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 15 APR 2014
... the number of retirees in Australia will double over the next few decades and referred to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) recommendation that more countries should consider raising pension ages. However the AIST said that there were other considerations ...

Hockey signals pension age might climb to 70

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2014
... enough structural policy change to address the much more complex issue of an aging Australia. But it was Hockey's citation of IMF recommendations for more countries to consider raising their pension ages that stirred the most reaction. While Hockey's ...