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Those tight Aussies

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 NOV 2011
... mindset" and "despondent consumer confidence" maybe, but... high savings rate? This one's hard to believe. So in I went into the OECD's website and lo and behold, there it was on "Annex Table 23: Household savings rate", Australia indeed ranks numero ...

Go figure

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 NOV 2011
... that it's gonna be a bright (bright) sun-shiny day, along comes the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) bearing bad tidings. And if you hadn't had your fill of Halloween horror, click on the dailymail.co.uk where you'll read ...

SG increase the key to global pension top spot

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 OCT 2011
... holding Australia back from the A-grade and being the best system in the world was lower levels of adequacy. "We look at OECD data that looks at what income people will live on pre and post-retirement, the better systems such as Netherlands take the ...

Tax forum tackles wealth management issues

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 7 OCT 2011
... unnecessary complexity of the tax system but also its strengths, with Australia having the ninth lowest tax regime in the OECD when it comes to total taxes and a net public debt of around 7%. "Many of our friends in other jurisdictions would give their ...

Dangerous currents

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2011
... look at the latest batch of global growth forecast downgrades from the Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to see how dangerous the current 'currents' have become. And just last night ...

Find me that silver bullet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 SEP 2011
... be found and found quickly - or it'll continue to sap confidence out of you, me and Irene. Just less than a week ago, the OECD marked down its growth forecasts and now expects "quarterly growth in the G7 economies excluding Japan to remain less than ...

Net-net, it's still good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 JUL 2011
... Wall Street means a stronger Australian share market. And Europe's problems? Well, according to Dr Blundell-Wignall, the OECD's deputy director of financial and enterprise affairs, Australia will be immune from the crisis - but I would take his prognosis ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUL 2011
... chief financial officer Rob McDonald. The deputy director of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Adrian Blundell-Wignall, addresses an Australian Business Economists' luncheon on "Sovereign debt in the EU and US: implications ...

Super acting like a SWF: Treasury

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 4 JUL 2011
... despite perceptions of low domestic savings rates, Australia's 24% gross savings rate matches Germany's and compared to other OECD countries is second only to Japan's 26%. The big question however is to what extent does Australia's compulsory super system ...

The road to ruin

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 JUN 2011
... deficit as a percentage of GDP: minus 8.4 per cent (The Economist 2011 forecast) Debt as a percentage of GDP: 152.5 per cent (OECD 2011 forecast)