Squeezing juice from a drying cash rate
ANALYSIS: Yes, rates are falling, but your returns don’t have to.
Now is a good time for savers and defensive investors to assess whether their cash is working hard enough.
Liam Donnelley
Tue, 24 Jun 2025
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The past two or three years have seen the official cash rate (OCR) and other short-term interest rates touch heights not seen since before the global financial crisis.
After 13 years of unusually low interest rates post-GFC, and the generational lows of the post-pandemic recovery period, the past
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Liam Donnelley
Tue, 24 Jun 2025
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