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Economic round-up: Chinese whispers and inflation rumbles

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2007
... Chairman, Alan Greenspan, over China's "unsustainable" market weighed heavily on the Australian dollar yesterday, while the OECD flagged a threat to our inflation. On Wednesday Dr Greenspan, speaking by satellite to a conference in Madrid, was discussing ...

ALP's broadband funding comes under fire

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAR 2007
... technology infrastructure. Rudd pointed to figures showing Australia ranked a fairly lowly 17th in terms of broadband take-up in OECD countries and 25th in terms of broadband width. "Against those measures we have a problem in terms of our international ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAR 2007
... per for September last year is below the figure of 10.5 per cent of a year earlier and that of 12.6 per cent in 2001. An OECD report on tax regimes around the world has noticed that low to middle-income workers face steeper regimes than many developed ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 2 FEB 2007
... in 1987 to 4.5 per cent in 2006. Public-sector infrastructure at 1.8 per cent of GDP puts Australia among the worst of the OECD countries. Much infrastructure spending has been by the private sector particularly in those industries that have been privatized ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JAN 2007
... GDP and is now at levels comparable with France and Britain. The Labour party has noted that Australia is ranked 18th in an OECD list of spending on education and that spending on early childhood education is about 20 per cent of the group average. The ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 23 JAN 2007
Opposition Leader Kevin Rudd has criticised the Federal Government's record on productivity citing a report by the OECD which says that Australia's spending on higher education has fallen by 7 per cent over the last decade while there was an increase ...

Corporate tax needs to be more competitive: KPMG

... continuing question for Australian policy-makers should be whether having one of the highest corporate tax burdens within the OECD (which comprises many highly taxed, low growth European economies) is sustainable if we are to attract overseas investment ...

Keating laments missed super opportunities

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 30 OCT 2006
... Failure to properly harness the Budget Surpluses to boost national savings would cause Australia to keep sliding down the OECD ladder, he warned. Keating said economic conditions were already beginning to fragment after being artificially buoyed by the ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 24 OCT 2006
... is worth between $8 to$18 billion to the national economy via its effect on the Federal government based upon the latest OECD forecasts that the boom has added about 1.75 per cent to GDP. Recent ABS data shows that WA's unemployment rate fell from 7.4 ...

Government must intervene more to promote savings: CEDA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 19 OCT 2006
... latest Federal Budget and the establishment of the Future Fund. The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), in the latest country survey of Australia, however said, "Australia is better placed than most to deal with the fiscal pressures ...

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Super funds race to implement digital advice

VINNY VUCAGO
Australian superannuation funds are increasingly turning to digital advice tools to bridge the longstanding gap between members needs and access to affordable financial guidance, according to executives at wealth technology Bravura Solutions.

Musk's $106bn fundamental-defying IPO lands on Nasdaq

RIDDHIMA TALWANI
SpaceX has raised US$75 billion ($106.8bn) in the biggest-ever stock market debut, valuing Elon Musk's rocket and satellite company at US$1.77 trillion.

Quinbrook appoints Australian lead

VINNY VUCAGO
Energy transition infrastructure investor Quinbrook has appointed Tim Horneman as region leader for Australia, formalising his responsibility for the firm's local investment activities and business operations.

Former ASFA COO joins housing fund manager

MATTHEW WAI
The former chief operating officer of the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) has joined C1 Capital Group as chief investment and operating officer.

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