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Interest rates will jump to slay "the evil of inflation": Lowe

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 NOV 2022
... "scourge." "High inflation devalues your savings. It worsens inequality in our society, and it undermines our living standards. It hurts us all by impairing the functioning of our economy," Lowe said.

Small wins for some pensioners

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 OCT 2022
... the Age Pension," he said. "Secondly, I think we need an objective to enable most Australians to maintain broad living standards during their retirement years."

Budget deficit pressured by debt costs

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 OCT 2022
... full employment, growing real wages, ensuring women's economic participation and equality, and improving living standards for all Australians. The immediate priority is to ensure fiscal policy is not adding to inflationary pressures and to begin ...

US rocked by inflation disaster

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUL 2022
... bring down high inflation. She said: "Persistently high inflation could sink the recovery and further damage living standards, particularly for the vulnerable." As such Georgieva recommended that most central banks continue to tighten monetary policy ...

GDP rises but headwinds abound

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUN 2022
... cost-of-living crisis." McManus called on the new Labor government, business and civil society to ensure working people's living standards don't go backwards. Further to the ACTU's concerns, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) revealed that the ...

Super Guarantee increases now ironclad

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 16 MAY 2022
... The association said that the SG is a cornerstone of the Australian retirement system and has the power to lift living standards while having a positive impact on the economy. An ISA statement said that Australians would strongly support the increases. ...

BetaShares reveals Future of Food ETF

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAY 2022
... the globe. This thematic is underpinned by powerful megatrends such as an increased global population, improved living standards, more awareness about the impacts of livestock on greenhouse gas emissions and animal welfare considerations. As a result ...

Prime Minister announces reverse mortgage scheme

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 16 DEC 2021
... safe alternative for them to be able to access the equity in their own home to improve their incomes and their living standards in their retirement years." He added: "It just gives them another tool to be able to have a better quality of life in their ...

APRA hones in on post-retirement products

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 23 NOV 2021
... superannuation balances will be larger when people die, as will inheritances. Superannuation is intended to fund living standards of retirees, not to accumulate wealth to pass to future generations," the RIR report read. By 2059, the review estimated ...

Recovery set to slow: OECD

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 16 SEP 2021
... could further weaken trade activity." The survey said the government should seek to address stagnating growth in living standards and weaker productivity growth which existed prior to the pandemic and higher public debt. "Future fiscal strategy should ...