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The seven global megatrends to watch: CSIRO

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 27 MAR 2023
... within Australia, we see that a greater share of our GDP is dedicated towards healthcare, relative to what we see across other OECD countries. "Of course, this is still less than what we see across places like the US, but this is an area that we're ...

abrdn loses global chief economist

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 13 MAR 2023
... senior US economist at BNP Paribas. Previously, he held a raft of roles with the Institute of International Finance, the OECD, and was a senior economist at the Reserve Bank of Australia following a stint as Kevin Rudd's climate policy advisor leading ...

Australia leads the way in pension system sustainability: ASFA

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 23 FEB 2023
... government pension expenditure is relatively low and expected to decline from 2.6% to 2.1% of GDP by 2060. Oppositely, many OECD retirement income systems have poor system design, population ageing, and elevated inflation imperilling long-term sustainability. ...

Regional commercial real estate to run hot: REIA

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 6 DEC 2022
... Groves added that, despite a mixed bag of economic headwinds, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) is forecasting Australia to outperform many other advanced economies, predicting GDP to grow around 2.5%. "On the one hand ...

Delayed reforms put pensioners at risk: OECD

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 5 DEC 2022
The OECD Pensions Outlook 2022 says that continuing with reforms to asset-backed pension arrangements is essential to improving retirement outcomes and the sustainability of retirement incomes, thereby building more inclusive pension systems. While ...

Forrests invest in post-war, green Ukraine

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 NOV 2022
... Forrest briefing US President Joe Biden, former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, OECD Secretary-General Mathias Cormann, and the international business community including UN Special Envoy Michael Bloomberg ...

Government strengthens multinationals tax laws

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  MONDAY, 8 AUG 2022
... capitalisation rules to limit interest deductions for MNEs in line with the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)'s recommended approach under Action 4 of the Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) program. It also looks to introduce ...

KPMG spotlights super's biggest challenges

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUL 2022
... that the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) continues to pursue its 'Justified Trust' initiative which seeks to embrace the OECD view that tax risk management should be part of good corporate governance. The initiative identifies the top 1000 taxpayers ...

Tax exemptions overwhelmingly benefit the wealthy: OECD

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUL 2022
An Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) report indicates that Australia's lack of capital gains tax has led to a monumental increase in house prices that have unfairly affected the less wealthy. The report states that between ...

OECD projects sharp growth deceleration

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUN 2022
... Ukraine immediately slowed the recovery from the Covid pandemic and set the global economy on a course of lower growth, the OECD said. The intergovernmental organisation's latest economic outlook said global growth would decelerate to around 3% this ...