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Australia's enviable debt levels

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2023
... government bond debt position, even though this amount is projected to climb 19% by June 2027, Australia's central government debt ratio was only 39% of GDP in 2022. Moreover, it's projected to substantially contract to 35% by the end of June 2023 albeit ...

World Bank warns of a sharp global growth decline

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JAN 2023
... debt burdens and weak investment as global capital is absorbed by advanced economies faced with extremely high government debt levels and rising interest rates," Malpass said. "Weakness in growth and business investment will compound the already-devastating ...

Global X drops management fees

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 OCT 2022
... (Currency Hedged) tracks the iBoxx $ Treasuries Total Return Index, hedged into Australian dollars. The market for US government debt is the deepest and most liquid of any type of financial instrument, with more than US$23 trillion of outstanding Treasuries. ...

Portfolio holdings disclosure rules "feeblest on the planet": Report

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUL 2022
... bond fund, it need only disclose the name of the fund manager, obscuring whether the investment was in Australian government debt or emerging-market bonds, and so on." He added that, as it stands, Australians wishing to invest sustainably have no regulatory ...

Aussie government debt to double: Janus Henderson

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 APR 2022
Australian government debt is expected to double by 2025, latest insights from Janus Henderson show. The Janus Henderson Sovereign Debt Index shows Australia is expected to owe $68,806 per person in government debt by 2025. The report shows central ...

WA government seeks to improve WA's ESG outcomes

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 NOV 2021
... considering the state as an investment destination. The pack has been developed primarily to inform investors in WA government debt securities of key policy commitments and actions currently in progress that are addressing the key environmental and social ...

Portfolio holdings disclosure a failure: Morningstar

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 15 NOV 2021
... funds will only have to disclose the name of the fund manager, obscuring whether the investment was in Australian government debt or emerging- market bonds. The disclosures around cash holdings are so unclear that funds will not have to disclose whether ...

Government debt blows out 420%

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 20 APR 2021
... grew 257% since 1995 off the back of a population boom and its dependence on the rapidly growing Asian market, government debt has skyrocketed 420%, the study found. This means that the country's debt-to-GDP ratio in 2020 reached 55%, which is still ...

AAA rating holds on by a thread

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 OCT 2020
... spending in response to the health and economic crisis will cause large fiscal deficits and a sharp increase in government debt/GDP." Despite the revised outlook, Australia will hold on to its AAA rating for the time being, Fitch said, because of the ...

Government announces $184bn deficit

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2020
... economic recovery is established, stronger growth and an improvement in the fiscal position will help to stabilise government debt as a share of the economy." Despite the government's economic support measures real GDP is forecast to have fallen sharply ...