The practice of holding wealth or savings as cash, from an economic point of view, is full of paradoxes and puzzles.
The paradox of thrift is one, where it is postulated the more that is held in savings, the worse it is for the economy, as it means …
The proportion of Australian households struggling to make ends meet has fallen marginally over the past six months despite a further rise in interest rates in August, according to new CoreData research completed last week.
The numbers doing it tough remains high however with 46.2% of households running …
The introduction of a new benchmarking tool to compare consumer experiences in seeking financial advice from the nation’s top dealer groups is due to be released next month.
CoreData is close to completing 600 mystery shop events of the nation’s planning industry using real shoppers who are either …
Speaking frankly – almost all fund managers, platform providers and financial product producers dislike the service element of the businesses they run.
They dislike it because it’s expensive, it’s hard to measure and they know unless they do it well then the flow of funds into their products …
Australians have given Federal Opposition Treasurer Wayne Swan the seal of approval a week after snubbing incumbent Peter Costello.
The dominant view in all states and territories, bar Western Australia, is that Swan would be highly effective as the nation’s Treasurer, according to a CoreData minipoll of more …
The explosion of securitised products in financial services since the beginning of the millennium is now truly starting to hurt those groups that embraced the sector most aggressively.
Yesterday, Citigroup revealed what can happen if you’re the one left holding the parcel when the music stops and it turns …
