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CPI poses awkward optics for RBA: Economist

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 31 OCT 2022
... steadily in the near future with a likely pause from mid-2023 as the RBA assesses the impact of its tightening strategy." UNSW economist Nalini Prasad commented: "Inflation remains well above the RBA's target range." "The RBA will need to raise interest ...

Are Australia's wealthiest tight-fisted?

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 29 AUG 2022
... wealth for these individuals, deserve more." Explaining another insight from the research related to private ancillary funds, UNSW adjunct professor and Paul Ramsay Foundation chair Michael Traill said this main form of structured giving used by wealthier ...

Financial abuse linked to violence: CBA, UNSW

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 1 AUG 2022
Commonwealth Bank and the UNSW Generated Violence Research Network (GVRN) partnership commented on findings showing economic and financial abuse is linked to domestic and family violence. Statistics show that one in four women and one in 13 men have ...

Social impact fund to target essential workers

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 4 JUL 2022
... workers. It is underpinned by a social impact investing model that is backed and measured by The Centre for Social Impact at UNSW using its new Amplify Online tool. The initiative is offered in partnership with Police Bank as the exclusive mortgage provider ...

Excise tax, super top budget worries

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2022
... be the increased cost of living, especially with petrol prices soaring to well over $2 a litre. Professor of economics at UNSW Business School Richard Holden says there will be immense pressure on Treasurer Josh Frydenberg to announce something to address ...

Can Russia use crypto to get around sanctions?

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAR 2022
... transfers abroad, after Turkey and Ukraine. Elvira Sojli, associate professor of finance in the School of Banking and Finance at UNSW Business School, explained that crypto can be used to get around sanctions. "The sanctions, specifically SWIFT, stop ...

Economics Committee to examine rainy day funds

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 8 FEB 2022
... ways to do so that do not put member's funds at risk or increase their fees," he said. The committee will also hear from UNSW associate professor Scott Donald, who specialises in governance within the superannuation sector. "While the regulators ...

Office workers burnt out: Research

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 10 SEP 2021
... their pay and 50% felt less comfortable taking time off work when they were working from home. According to research from the UNSW School of Psychiatry and the Black Dog Institute, burnout symptoms include anxiety and stress, depression and low mood ...

Calls for Royal Commission into housing

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUN 2021
... system. In a paper, they argued that the hot residential property market is at the expense of broader economic stability. UNSW researchers Hal Pawson, Bill Randolph and Fatemeh Aminpour partnered with Duncan Maclennan and Jinqiao Long from the University ...

Fostering the ageing workforce

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUN 2021
... opportunities, older workers could offset the adverse economic impacts of population ageing," CEPAR senior research fellow at the UNSW Business School Rafal Chomik said. Chomik argued that for this to happen, Australia must do more to dismantle the barriers ...