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Budget Eve

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 MAY 2017
... the slack in the domestic labour market (and its implication for wages and inflation), household consumption and household debt levels, and property prices.

Treasurer opens the way for increased infrastructure spending

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 28 APR 2017
... attention to superannuation and housing affordability, Morrison made mention of the 80% of Australia's $2.1 trillion household debt held in mortgages, and noted the Australian households are now the fourth most indebted in the OCED as a share of income. ...

RBA dilemma

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 APR 2017
... The problem is everyone agrees that Australia's property market is extremely overvalued and, along with record household debt - household debt to income ratio is currently at 187%, according to RBA data - threatens domestic financial stability and by ...

Record adviser numbers attend Sydney ABDO

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAR 2017
... national capital cities tour that during March took the seminar to thousands of financial advisers across Australia. "Household debt is my big concern for Australia, it's just too high - you can't bake it any other way. Eighty per cent of household debt ...

Spending and debt, Australia's biggest test

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 10 JAN 2017
... economy. A further 44% blamed housing affordability as the cause of their unease, while 42% cited their level of household debt. The study was undertaken in December and surveyed 1000 Australians, finding that saving is the top priority (34%) this year ...

Budgets with more super tinkering are possible

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 26 SEP 2016
... VCs have got very little out of it, Evans said. Providing a wider economic update, Evans said Australia's bloated household debt is an embarrassment that has built up over a long period of time and reflected by a high foreign debt. Evans is optimistic ...

NAB dispels housing bubble "toil and trouble"

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 AUG 2016
... accumulation from poor lending practices," he said. Having said this, he did note that Australia has some of the highest household debt in the world, and that this was theoretically "vulnerable to shock" - but that corporate and government debt were ...

Higher recession risk creates opportunity in large miners: Lazard

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAY 2016
... high on a lot of measures," Lazard Asset Management portfolio manager Philipp Hofflin said. "At the same time, household debt is also very high by international standards." "You have to consider how things can go wrong." Hofflin continued. "Young people ...

Government debt is not bad: Sicilia

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 17 SEP 2015
... borrowing for economic growth are farther than ideology rather than rational and proven economics. "Any analogy between household debt and government debt is at best weak. After all, the government is able to raise revenue to meet its debt obligations ...

Australia's "irrational exuberance" an economic risk: PIMCO

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2015
... weight on unemployment or returns, which means that an external shock would be severe for the economy, PIMCO said. Household debt appears to be rising, even as GDP growth and income slow, the latest analysis paper 'A look at rising household debt in ...