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Adequacy argument headlines online CMSF

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2020
... guarantee between Mercer's David Knox, John Daley of the Grattan Institute, HESTA head of impact Mary Delahunty and Per Capita executive director Emma Dawson. The session offered panel members the chance to debate the adequacy of the superannuation system ...

World rolls out stimulus

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2020
... $12.1 billion package amount to 4% of GDP, in what the finance minister said is one of the largest in the world on a per capita basis. State Street Global Advisors said that while the market has yet to view the combined action from central banks as effective ...

VanEck launches new income product

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2020
... likely to see low interest rates persist in Australia given household consumption will remain subdued. Household income per capita is not increasing and wages growth remains very low, reflecting lackluster household spending," Neiron said. "Combining ...

Chief economist update: A busy 2020 for Abe, BOJ

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 JAN 2020
... in activity, the unemployment rate remains near multidecade lows, labor force participation continues to climb, and per capita income growth remains healthy." Get that? No, I didn't get it either. Is it positive on Japan's prospects or... To ...

2020: Year of the fragile economy

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 9 JAN 2020
... eradication of poverty. "Even if the recovery in emerging and developing economy growth were to take place as expected, per capita growth would advance at a pace too slow to meet development goals," Pazarbasioglu said. The World Bank said the forecast ...

Gender wealth gap down to 11%: Roy Morgan

KRISTI CHENG  |  THURSDAY, 8 AUG 2019
... GFC when net wealth for women was $236,000, 80% of the $296,000 for men. Over the same period the average net wealth per capita of Australians has increased by 59.7% - or 23.8% after accounting for inflation - from $285,600 to $424,200. The report attributed ...

Australians rapidly gaining wealth: Roy Morgan

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUL 2019
... until 2019 and draws on over half a million face-to-face interviews conducted with Australians. The researchers found per capita net wealth in real terms (adjusted for inflation) is 28% higher now than it was just before the GFC. Over the period, Australia ...

Chief economist update: The Budget surplus can wait

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUN 2019
... shadow Treasurer Jim Chalmers said the nation was already in a recession of sorts. "Australia finds itself still in a per capita recession, this is the third consecutive quarter that we have had that measure go backwards and that's the first time ...

Call for super funds to divest gambling interests

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAY 2019
... management are investing Australians retirement savings into the gambling industry. Australians lose more money to gambling per capita than any other country, $23 billion in recorded gambling losses every year, $14 billion of that going through the pokies. ...

Australia in effective recession: Academic

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAR 2019
... in gross domestic product for the three months to December 2018. Consumer spending grew at 0.4% in the quarter. GDP per capita shrunk in both Q3 and Q4. UNSW Business School's Richard Holden labelled the GDP is "very poor" and should be much more ...