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World on the brink: Frontier Advisors

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 6 DEC 2024
... rifts, and climate inaction. The report said after spiking at the onset of COVID-19, government debt levels as a proportion of GDP briefly retraced but have since continued their upward trajectory to historically high levels, with deficits "not expected ...

GDP grows but still slow: 'Confirms our worst fears'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 DEC 2024
Australian gross domestic product (GDP) rose 0.3% in the September quarter 2024 and by 0.8% since September 2023, according to figures released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). "The Australian economy grew for the 12th quarter in a row ...

Dividends to be down in FY25: Equity Trustees

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 3 DEC 2024
... earnings-per-share growth for FY25 is now likely to be flat to down on FY24 with modest growth anticipated in FY26." Thompson said domestic GDP growth is expected to remain at or below 2% in CY25 as the lagged impact of higher interest rates and weakening ...

'Turbulent' environment expected in 2025: Robeco

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 22 NOV 2024
... tempered by cooling consumption and higher tariffs. Yet, both fiscal as well as monetary policy remains procyclical. Real GDP is projected to grow by 1.7%, reflecting a mild 'stagflationary' trend as inflation remains slightly above consensus. European ...

Chalmers unveils new superannuation reforms

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 NOV 2024
... their working lives," Chalmers said. "Over the next four decades, drawdowns from super are estimated to increase from 2.4% of GDP to 5.6% of GDP, and this is part of the big demographic shifts shaping our economy, which we identified in our intergenerational ...

Magellan warns of staggering sovereign debt

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 NOV 2024
... In 2010, following the government's response to the Global Financial Crisis, it first exceeded 90% as a percentage of GDP - the level identified by academics Reinhart and Rogoff as associated with a worsening in growth outcome," Magellan portfolio ...

Interest rates to remain on hold for some time

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 NOV 2024
... rate would be some time off. "There were more references to the cash-rate easing only from 'mid-2025' in the SoMP amid lower GDP projections. We worry if the takeaway is that the RBA is prepared to maintain restrictive policy for longer, which may lead ...

Australia a top destination for international investment: QIC

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 28 OCT 2024
... is more than twice that of the global average and US rates of 0.8%. This supports a strong trend growth rate in Australian GDP, which is currently estimated to be 2.3%, compared to US and Canada at 2.1%, and advanced economies in Asia and Europe of around ...

Making a splash: The economic impact of AUKUS

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 OCT 2024
... China is a threat today." Meanwhile, China's economic success story, since it opened itself to the world in 1978, saw GDP growth average over 9% per year and lift 800 million people out of poverty, according to the World Bank. Whilst GDP growth has ...

US better positioned to deliver strong returns: UniSuper

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 22 OCT 2024
... said it took a lot for other nations to work their way back up after the GFC, with stimulus measures that were around 10% of GDP. "China is throwing around 2% of GDP at the problem. Nobody thinks that's enough and that's why the market is a bit ...
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