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Chief economist update: Australia's confidence contagion

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 APR 2021
... virtuous cycle continues to roll - roiled vaccine roll-out or not. Confident consumers beget confident businesses - household spending rises, lifting sales and profits and ultimately investment in buildings and structures, machinery and equipment and ...

Chief economist update: Fourth wave threatens Olympics, growth outlook

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 APR 2021
... already cancelled the torch relay because of rising infections there. The Olympics aside, Japan remains in dire straits. Household spending dropped by 6.6% in the year to February, accelerating from the 6.1% fall recorded in the previous month with Mr. ...

Super runs out before death: ASFA

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAR 2021
... super well before the end of their lives, pointing to the Australian Tax Office, APRA and unpublished data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA). Some 80% of those aged 60 and over who died between 2014 to 2018 had no super ...

Chief economist update: BOE not letting its guard down

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 MAR 2021
"At its meeting ending on 17 March 2021, the Committee judged that the existing stance of monetary policy remains appropriate. The MPC voted unanimously to maintain Bank Rate at 0.1%. The Committee voted unanimously for the Bank of England to maintain ...

Chief economist update: Confidence contagion

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAR 2021
... reading of 112.0, a whopping 23.3% fall from the same month last year. Confident consumers beget confident businesses - household spending rises, lifting sales and profits and ultimately investment in buildings and structures, machineries and equipment ...

Childcare costs drag women's nest egg

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 8 MAR 2021
... require face-to-face contact, such as health, hospitality and childcare, on top of taking on more responsibilities in household chores and homeschooling children. A global study by the Boston Consulting Group found that women bear the brunt of responsibilities ...

Government retirement modelling leaves women behind: ISA

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 8 MAR 2021
... careers of women, according to research by Industry Super Australia (ISA). The research, which analysed two decades of Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey, found three-quarters of women are unlikely to retire having received ...

More women in workforce with greater paternity leave: ASI

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAR 2021
... do - and not at the expense of men's participation either. Women also tend to be the second earners in a dual income household, facing higher net personal average tax rates than singles. For this reason, ASI is calling for tax reform. "Similarly, where ...

Chief economist update: The great Australian rebound

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAR 2021
... economy grew by an equal 1.1% but it's economy remains mired in deflation which doesn't bode well for future household consumption and private investment. Speaking of which, household consumption and private investment were the biggest contributors ...

Chief economist update: Getting better, but not better enough

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 MAR 2021
"Betterer and betterer!" Like Alice who "quite forgot how to speak good English", there appears to be universal optimism over the economic outlook as central banks watch "through the looking glass". This sentiment is echoed by the Reserve Bank of Australia ...