Bendigo Bank’s new customer boss is Christopher Dean
Bendigo Bank has appointed former HSBC UK executive Christopher Dean as its new Chief Customer Officer for Consumer Banking, with the Melbourne-based role beginning...
Drivers hunt for affordable EVs as fuel excise relief ends
Affordable electric vehicles have dominated new-car searches as Australian motorists face renewed pressure at petrol stations following the end of the federal government’s temporary...
Why Australia’s next trillion-dollar story is inheritance
Australians inherited an estimated $150 billion last year, marking the start of what researchers describe as the largest intergenerational transfer of wealth in the...
Living costs rose almost twice as fast as wages, report finds
Australian households have endured their weakest decade of income growth since the 1950s, with employee living costs rising about 28 per cent between December...
AI boom could keep interest rates higher for longer, warns Stephanie Pomboy
The rush to fund artificial intelligence infrastructure is reshaping global capital markets and could leave interest rates elevated for years, macroeconomic analyst Stephanie Pomboy...
$12.8 trillion property market ‘too important to fail’, report finds
Australian housing is worth $12.8 trillion, more than the sharemarket, the superannuation system and every household bank deposit combined, and has become so central...
Australia’s health system is running out of hands, not money
Australia spends $270.5 billion a year on healthcare, about one dollar in every ten produced by the economy, and achieves some of the world's...
Wealth creation tops migrant priorities, NAB research shows
More than four in five recent migrants to Australia regard saving for the future as a key financial goal, with property ownership and wealth...
Kundoo headlines Living Cities Forum in Melbourne, Sydney
Indian-born architect Anupama Kundoo will join international experts in architecture, urban planning and housing at the Living Cities Forum in Melbourne and Sydney this...
Record qualifications can’t fix Australia’s skills shortages
Australia has never produced more university graduates, yet almost three in ten assessed occupations remain in shortage, according to new research that estimates the...