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Chief economist update: It's looking up for the land down under

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2020
... the surging price of our biggest commodity export - iron ore - one that's bound to reduce the budget deficit the Treasury forecast in the Budget Papers 2020/2021 and/or provide the Morrison administration more firepower just in case. The budget papers ...

JobKeeper saved 700,000 jobs: RBA

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 24 NOV 2020
... JobKeeper, employment would have fallen by twice as much as it did. Our estimates are close to (or, a little larger than) Treasury's earlier estimates of the number of jobs that this fiscal measure 'saved'." The JobKeeper payment cost over $100 million ...

Chief economist update: Iron ore to reduce Aussie deficit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 NOV 2020
"I see trees of green, red roses too..." - Louis Armstrong It'll be peculiar to even be humming this immortal classic at a time when covid-19 continues to afflict most of the world. But the way it's going for this land down under, it wouldn't ...

Treasury expected to release retirement review

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 19 NOV 2020
Nearly four months after Treasury received the Retirement Income Review's final report, it is expected to be released to the public tomorrow. An independent three-person panel of Treasury veteran Mike Callaghan, former Future Fund board member and ...

Funds management in ASIC spotlight

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 19 NOV 2020
... surprised to find they are unable to withdraw from previously liquid managed funds," she said. "So we are working with Treasury to ensure we have (and can publicly share) much greater data on retail management investment products, wholesale funds and ...

Shipton's tax bill under scrutiny

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 NOV 2020
... remuneration within ASIC was not unusual but what was unusual, he admitted, was drawing the discrepancies to the attention of Treasury rather than to the accountable authority (that is because ASIC is the accountable authority). In five years with the ...

Chief economist update: Letter V going viral in Australia

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 NOV 2020
... pandemic). These surveys were conducted just after the Australian Budget 2020-21 reveal in early October when the Federal Treasury announced additional spending amounting to "$98 billion in response and recovery support, including $25 billion under the ...

State Super scholarship opens

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 9 NOV 2020
... employees and their retirement, pensions or superannuation. The scholarship-review panel consists of State Super, NSW Treasury, NSW Department of Education and a retired NSW academic. The panel may consider the following criteria: Does the research directly ...

RBA measures not solely due to COVID: Treasury

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 6 NOV 2020
... unconventional monetary policy measures launched by the Reserve Bank of Australia are not solely a result of the COVID-19 shock, Treasury Secretary Steven Kennedy said. Speaking to Australian Business Economists for a post-budget briefing, Kennedy said ...

Chief economist update: More money for reimposed lockdown

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 NOV 2020
... +9%. UK GDP dropped by 21.5% in the year to the second quarter. The latest IHS/CIPS UK PMI surveys give credence to the Treasury and the central bank's move. Although still in expansion the composite PMI retreated to a reading of 52.1 in October ...