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The lucky country may not be so for future generations

WHITNEY FITZSIMMONS  |  MONDAY, 4 APR 2016
New research from MLC reveals a third of Australian parents think lack of financial planning will prevent their children from enjoying the same lifestyle as them, with nearly 60% of the 2,000 surveyed saying the next generation will never own their ...

Australians wary of new investments: Legg Mason

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2015
... Mason. Although weighted averages suggest investor confidence in Australia is high, it appears investors in the lucky country don't want to take the next step and enter into new investment options. This is reflected in Legg Mason's latest Global Investment ...

"Pleasant" but...

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 SEP 2014
... likes my buts around here. There were 'buts' a-plenty after the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released this "lucky country's' economic scorecard for the second quarter. Australian real GDP advanced by 0.5% in the three-months to June and 3.1% ...

RBA to business: release the animal in you

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 AUG 2014
... column on Bloomberg titled "Australia's Jobless Rate Should Worry the Fed" where Bill wrote that: "Folks in "The Lucky Country' have long been blessed with top-notch monetary policy makers. There has been no recession on the watch of Reserve Bank of ...

Wealth management sector key to Australian growth: Deloitte

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAR 2014
... 'super-enabler' helping to add an extra $250 billion to the national economy. This third report in Deloitte's Building the Lucky Country series - Positioning for Prosperity? Catching the next wave, which focuses on business imperatives for a prosperous ...

Government removes self-education cap

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 NOV 2013
... executive Brad Fox said that the change "is a positive, practical move." "It is time Australia relied less on being the lucky country and applied ourselves more to becoming a smart country," he said. "Investing in self-education is a core element of ...

Mother of all hard landings and other BSes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 JUL 2013
... don't pop that cork on the champagne bottle yet. There's trouble - big trouble - heading our way. That's right. This lucky country is heading for one mighty crrr...ash. That's if you believe the latest from Societe Generale's global strategist, Albert ...

Variant Perceptions' variant perception

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 31 AUG 2012
... debunk these issues one at a time but it goes along the lines of what RBA Governor Glen Stevens said at his "The lucky Country" speech at The Anika Foundation last 24 July. You can read it again here: http://www.rba.gov.au/speeches/2012/sp-gov-240712.html ...

Can't lose

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 APR 2012
... politburo's enthusiasm to stimulate growth. And where China goes, there Australia is. And it's not only China that the lucky country has to worry about this time. It also now faces the added uncertainty of the magnitude of the budget cuts that'll be ...

Dam Aussie

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 FEB 2012
... this by now. But just in case, another 46,300 jobs - the biggest since November 2010 -- were created in this, our "lucky country" last month which took the unemployment rate down to 5.1% (and no you cannot attribute this to the participation rate for ...