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Income inequality elevated, spikes: Oxfam

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 16 APR 2024
... tackling inequality and climate breakdown," said Donald. A separate Oxfam study reveals that billionaires are US$3.3 trillion richer than in 2020, with their wealth growing three times faster than the rate of inflation. Despite representing just 21% ...

Top 10% pocket 93% of Australia's wealth: Research

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 APR 2023
... indicates middle-income earners receive just 7% of economic growth per person since 2009, while the top 10% keep getting richer. The data, taken from the World Inequality Database (WID) that shows real national incomes per adult on a calendar year basis ...

RFI Global takes on DBM's Atlas division

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 APR 2023
... benefited from a focus on robust and reliable data and we know that, like us, RFI is constantly exploring ways to deliver richer insights and strategic guidance. We look forward to continuing this journey together," he said.

Inflation erodes retiree savings by 7.5%

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAR 2023
... (11.7%), household appliances (10.2%), other foods (9.2%), and meat and seafoods (8.2%) also dented retirees' budget. In 2022, richer couples aged about 65 spent $69,691 on household and day-to-day expenses, while couples living modestly spent $45,106. ...

Australia's 1% just keep getting richer: Study

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 17 JAN 2023
According to Oxfam, the richest 1% of Aussies have accumulated 10 times more wealth than the bottom 50% in the past decade. In its latest report, titled Survival of the richest, Oxfam found that Australian billionaire wealth is 61% higher than it was ...

Australia home to high proportion of women billionaires

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 27 JUN 2022
... companies led to 87 fewer Chinese billionaires on the list. Still, Forbes found more than 1000 billionaires who are now richer than they were a year ago.

ASFA, Deloitte recommend group insurance changes

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUN 2022
... default insurance can generate benefits in aggregate terms, current approaches were signalled as being too broad. By using richer data to better define default groups, the value for money of death and disability insurance cover in super policies would ...

Liberals should liberate Australians from super: Bragg

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAY 2022
... principal economic issues: taxation and superannuation," he said. Bragg claimed super has made unions, banks and insurers richer than ever and lamented excessive fees and lack of competition. He also called super a strange but huge experiment that should ...

Alpha females

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAR 2022
... qualified male. If this is the case, it follows that the remaining pool of female contenders for C-suite positions remains richer with talent." A Danish Department of Economics study using a large data set looking at the performance of all Danish companies ...

Australian billionaires double fortunes during pandemic: Oxfam

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 17 JAN 2022
... more staggering, the report states that if those 10 men were to lose 99.999% of their wealth tomorrow, they would still be richer than 99% of all the people on Earth. Oxfam Australia chief executive Lyn Morgain said the need to address the obscene ramifications ...
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