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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

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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