Miranda Maxwell
Business Spectator
Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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Past articles by Miranda:
It may be time to rein in short oil positions
Oil markets are oversupplied by an estimated 2.5 million barrels a day, but there are still good reasons to reassess oil-impacted investments. → Read More
Actuaries Institute joins retirement debate
White paper calls for means-testing, concession reform and taxing bequests to ease pension burden. → Read More
Australia is losing its grip on the fair go
While Australia's middle classes have escaped a global income crunch, the disparity in household savings between the rich and poor continues to get larger. → Read More
Super concessions are a rich man's world
Attempts to influence behaviour with incentives like super tax concessions and negative gearing always bring unintended consequences. → Read More
Taxes hit 40% of price of a new home
Taxes add more than $250,000 to the price of a new home in Sydney, says HIA. → Read More
Yellow Brick Road banks on the rise of robo-advice
Yellow Brick Road's Mark Bouris believes there's room for everyone in Australia's trillion-dollar financial planning industry. → Read More
Yellow Brick Road banks on the rise of robo-advice
Yellow Brick Road's Mark Bouris believes there's room for everyone in Australia's trillion-dollar financial planning industry. → Read More
Raising a glass to a fall in demand
Alcohol consumption in Australia is at 50-year lows. It's not great news for retailers, but it does have benefits on the economic front. → Read More
The vital signs are strong for financial advice
Low customer engagement in the financial advice sector presents a unique business opportunity for incumbents and new entrants. → Read More
Super funds to disrupt financial advice industry
Super fund assets under advice to hit 180% of GDP in coming decades, giving scale to shake up advising, Deloitte says. → Read More
The coming wake-up call for Australia's corporate giants
From the banks to the supermarket behemoths, Australia's biggest companies are making eye-popping returns. But a tendency to under-invest is leaving them exposed. → Read More
How Australia became an accidental yield magnet
The economic engine has switched fairly smoothly from mining and resources in the west to liquidity and construction in the east, which is likely to keep buoying growth. → Read More
The regulatory cure is overkill for the patient
Fines worth hundreds of billions that have been paid out by banks don't automatically improve things for the intended beneficiary, the investor. → Read More
Super rules make banks winners, mortgagees losers
Australians would be better off to the tune of six figures if they were allowed to use their super contributions to pay down housing debt, preliminary ANU modelling suggests. → Read More
The false economy of Abbott's family package
As socio-economic status becomes increasingly correlated to children's chances of success, cutting cash for the parents of newborns is a risky manoeuvre. → Read More
A dull budget gets a shot in the arm
Hockey’s budget has weighed in on the childhood vaccination controversy. → Read More
No alarms and no surprises
In its extreme effort to be a crowd pleaser, and make up for the political bad will of Joe Hockey’s first effort, the latest budget fails to offer any bold policy reform. → Read More
Lead vice chancellors not into temptation
A new university funding model which is under consideration by the government promises to limit fee increases and promote greater equity under deregulation. → Read More
Banks' easy loan party is really over
Westpac's $2bn raising is the signal that the big four's recent halcyon era of easy lending has come to a close. → Read More
What Woolworths could learn from Qantas
As Australia’s two top supermarket owners prepare for much-anticipated investor briefings, shareholders want to see concrete change to assuage the threat from discounters. → Read More