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Australian businesses lift borrowing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 AUG 2017
... 18th straight month of year-on-year contractions. This is hardly surprising given the latest available stats on household income and savings. Gross disposable income growth eased to 1.8% in the year to the March 2017 quarter - the slowest since the GFC ...

Low-flation to lower-flation?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUL 2017
... also important for wage growth (and pensions) because most are indexed to inflation. This doesn't augur well for household income and by extension, consumer confidence and spending. Worse, it could lead to even lower inflation expectations further exacerbating ...

Good jobs, sluggish pay

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUL 2017
... minutes that: "Members noted that the recent pick-up in growth in employment should also support a pick-up in household income growth, and therefore consumption growth, in the period ahead." The unemployment rate remained steady at 5.6% in June driven ...

Jump goes the Aussie

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JUL 2017
... the economy." "Members noted that the recent pick-up in growth in employment should also support a pick-up in household income growth, and therefore consumption growth, in the period ahead." "Members noted that the strength of recent labour market data ...

Default retirement products not good enough: Milliman

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 22 MAY 2017
... funds may already have a wealth of member information, it's likely they haven't considered (non-super) average household income and assets, health status or risk preferences. "There's only one way a fund can learn it: by asking members...Super represents ...

Negative gearing exposing Australia's poor: KPMG

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 21 APR 2017
... financial risks. Analysing the incomes and spending of Australian households over the past 20 years, KPMG said household income has primarily grown because of investment income and government transfers, not rising wages and salaries. The firm added that ...

Going good but there are risks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 MAR 2017
... growth in non-mining activities will bring further declines in the rate of unemployment and support aggregate household income, and boost consumption. The pick-up in activity is not expected to generate significant inflationary pressure due to remaining ...

Former Suncorp executive joins ME Bank

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 6 FEB 2017
... with the release of ME's 'Household Financial Comfort Report' which states that Australians' comfort with their household income is the lowest it's been since the biannual report was first published in 2011. Respondents rated their comfort as 5.55 out ...

A world of distrust: Edelman

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 27 JAN 2017
... than 50% of Australia's informed public - those aged 25 to 64 who have a college education and are in the top household income quartile for their age - trust these same institutions. Globally markets are experiencing the largest ever drop in trust across ...

Housing market faces heavy downside risk

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 19 JAN 2017
... might be quite high." Auscap said that "excesses in the system" - notably that house price growth is outstripping household income growth by a considerable margin - suggests that "like a stock that is pricing in the continuance of favourable conditions ...