For the past six months at CoreData we have been scanning the data waiting for the first signs that Australians are starting to fall out of love with cash.
Here’s the theory – when an economy starts to emerge from a holding pattern, the first sign that something …
Ask two investors the same question to define the essence of risk, in the context of saving and investing, and you will almost certainly be given two different answers.
Not quite as different as a finger print or DNA, but there is certainly a very broad spectrum of …
The mortgage market is in a state of flux as the warring between the Big Four continues to resemble a game of chess, each player carefully considering their next move.
From the CBA’s decision to hike rates above the official cash rate in November to NAB’s Valentine’s Day …
The Commonwealth Bank continues to remain the unrivalled deposit institution of choice for Australians.
The bank generally does not offer a very competitive rate, but does offer the perception of security and overwhelmingly makes the task of depositing cash easy – both of which overwhelm the need for …
AMP’s latest advertisement, featuring its new-look logo, features a call to action to Australians to ‘own tomorrow today’.
In truth, it’s a pretty ad with a nice soundtrack, and is not too dissimilar from the ad campaign launched by the financial services firm last year, with a heavy …
Everyone knows John Maynard Keynes as the founder of monetarisim, the school of economics which has the study of the flow money at its root, but in reality he was the founding thinker of what we now know as behavioural economics.
Keynes knew, long before Milton Friedman and …
