Macquarie Bank has the wealthiest customers

Original article by Roy Morgan
Market Research Update – Page: Online : 10-Jul-24

New financial data from Roy Morgan’s Wealth Report shows that among the larger banks, Macquarie has the wealthiest customers. Macquarie customers’ net wealth per capita is a market leading $943,000. Macquarie customers have higher incomes than customers of other large banks, and they are also the most likely to own or to be paying off homes, the main source of Australians’ wealth. In second place is St George with net wealth per capita of $662,000. St George’s customers are centred in Sydney where housing prices are the highest in the country, contributing to that city having greater per capita wealth than elsewhere in Australia. In third please is Westpac, with net wealth per capita of $646,000, the highest of the top four banks. Westpac customers are more likely to own property than customers of the other top four banks. They are also older and more likely to be Baby Boomers, giving them more time to have accumulated wealth. Meanwhile, the Commonwealth Bank has the lowest net wealth per capita of the banks reported ($474,000). Its customers are more likely to be Gen Z than customers of the other large banks. The latest data covers the 12 months to March 2024. Over this period net wealth per capita among all Australians aged 14+ stood at $503,000. Net wealth per capita is often below average among customers of the smaller regional banks and credit unions.

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ROY MORGAN LIMITED, MACQUARIE BANK LIMITED – ASX MBL, ST GEORGE BANK LIMITED, WESTPAC BANKING CORPORATION – ASX WBC, COMMONWEALTH BANK OF AUSTRALIA – ASX CBA

Disposable income soared for richest Australians after pandemic but went backwards for the rest, report says

Original article by Stephanie Convery
The Guardian Australia – Page: Online : 21-May-24

A report from the Productivity Commission has concluded that government assistance in response to COVID-19 resulted in an "unprecedented fall" in income inequality during the pandemic. The report found that household disposable income declined for 90 per cent of Australians early in the pandemic. However, the poorest households were hardest hit, with their income falling by eight per cent; in contrast, the income of the nation’s wealthiest households fell by just one per cent. The latter subsequently benefited the most from the post-pandemic rebound.

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AUSTRALIA. PRODUCTIVITY COMMISSION

Australia’s wealthiest 20% worth 90 times the country’s poorest, new report reveals

Original article by Cait Kelly
The Guardian Australia – Page: Online : 27-Sep-23

The Australian Council of Social Service and the University of New South Wales have released a report which highlights the nation’s growing wealth gap. The report, which is based on Australian Bureau of Statistics data from 2019, concluded that superannuation and property investment have been key drivers of growth in wealth over the last two decades. The wealthiest five per cent of Australians were worth an average of $6.7m in 2019, accounting for one-third of the nation’s combined wealth. Likewise, the wealthiest 20 per cent of Australians were worth an average of $3.2m. In contrast, people in the lowest quartile relied on an average of $419 each week in social security payments for half of their income.

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AUSTRALIAN COUNCIL OF SOCIAL SERVICE, UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES

Australians are wealthier than before COVID, but half the population holds over 95% of the wealth

Original article by Roy Morgan
Market Research Update – Page: Online : 3-Jul-23

The sixth edition of the Roy Morgan Wealth Report provides the full picture of individual Australians’ wealth and how that has changed during COVID-19. The report shows that after inflation, Australia’s wealth increased by 7.0% between March 2020 and March 2023, driven largely by the soaring value of owner-occupied homes (up 43.2% from $4.16 trillion to $5.95 trillion). The value of debt increased more quickly than the value of assets (53.0% vs. 22.2%), but not enough to stop the growth in overall wealth; the value of assets is now six times higher than the value of debt. Half the population now accounts for 95.4% of the nation’s net wealth. Watch our special End of Financial Year Wealth Report webinar with Roy Morgan CEO Michele Levine and finance and investment journalist Alan Kohler at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2QW7kMF8dI.

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ROY MORGAN LIMITED

Australians are the world’s richest people: Credit Suisse

Original article by Michael Read
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 3 : 21-Sep-22

Credit Suisse’s annual global wealth report shows that the median Australian adult had a net worth of $US273,900 at the end of 2021. This makes them richer than the comparable resident of any other country, according to the report. However, Australia ranked fourth on a mean wealth basis, behind Switzerland, the US and Hong Kong. The median Australian adult’s net wealth rose by $US28,450 during the calendar year, boosted by strong growth in share prices and the housing market. The number of millionaires in Australia rose to 2.18 million in US dollar terms in 2021, and Credit Suisse expects this to reach 2.94 million by 2026.

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CREDIT SUISSE AG

Aussie wealth rockets despite virus

Original article by Cliona O’Dowd
The Australian – Page: 17 : 23-Jun-21

Just under one in 10 Australians are millionaires in US dollar terms, according to Credit Suisse’s latest global wealth report. Credit Suisse found that Australians increased their wealth by more than all other countries except Switzerland during the pandemic, while it estimates that the number of Australian millionaires will rise by 70 per cent over the next five years to three million. Credit Suisse found that Australia topped the list for median wealth per adult in 2020, while it placed fourth in terms of mean wealth.

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CREDIT SUISSE AG

Rinehart leads miners to No.1 as tech stars ride COVID-19 wave

Original article by Michael Bailey, Julie-anne Sprague
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 1 & 6 : 30-Oct-20

The combined wealth of Australia’s 200 wealthiest individuals and families has risen from $342bn in 2019 to $424bn in 2020. Mining magnate Gina Rinehart has regained the title of Australia’s richest person, with estimated wealth of $28.9; she last topped the ‘Financial Review Rich List’ in 2015. Rinehart is followed by Andrew Forrest ($23bn) and Anthony Pratt ($19.75bn) on the list. Pratt had topped the list in 2019. Atlassian’s co-founders Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar are ranked 5th and 6th respectively.

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HANCOCK PROSPECTING PTY LTD, FORTESCUE METALS GROUP LIMITED – ASX FMG, VISY INDUSTRIES AUSTRALIA PTY LTD, ATLASSIAN CORPORATION PLC

Young and lowly paid most vulnerable: RBA

Original article by John Kehoe
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 9 : 24-Jun-20

Research from the Reserve Bank of Australia has found that most households had sufficient wealth at the onset of the coronavirus-induced recession to ride out a temporary fall in income. However, only about half of younger Australians had enough liquid assets such as savings to pay their expenses for three months. A similar percentage of workers in sectors that were hardest hit by coronavirus lockdown measures had limited capacity to meet their expenses at the start of the recession. The RBA research is based of the findings of the Household and Labour Dynamics in Australia survey in 2018.

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RESERVE BANK OF AUSTRALIA

New report breaks down Australians’ personal wealth by electorate – and shows PM wealth cluster

Original article by Roy Morgan
Market Research Update – Page: Online : 4-May-20

The 5th Edition of the Roy Morgan Wealth Report delivers additional unique insights by analysing the distribution of personal wealth across electorates. The House of Representatives takes in 151 electorates. At the end of 2019 the average per capita Net Wealth in Australia’s wealthiest electorate, Wentworth in Sydney’s eastern suburbs, was $1,060,000 and median Net Wealth was $338,000. In the poorest electorate, Spence in Adelaide’s outer northern suburbs, the average per capita Net Wealth was $187,000 (17.6% of the Wentworth figure) and median Net Wealth just $75,000 (22%). Even before the impacts of the bushfire crises and COVID-19 (coronavirus) there was a chasm between the most and least wealthy; this is likely to widen due to the impact of the coronavirus. The Roy Morgan Wealth Report also examines the wealth of the electorates represented by Australia’s Prime Ministers. Fourteen of the electorates held by post-WWII PMs still exist. Of these, six are among Australia’s 10 wealthiest overall. These include the seats of incumbent Prime Minister Scott Morrison (whose electorate, Cook, is the 6th wealthiest) and his two immediate predecessors, Malcolm Turnbull (Wentworth, No. 1 on the list) and Tony Abbott (Warringah, No. 2).

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ROY MORGAN LIMITED

Debt down; Australians have never been richer

Original article by Matthew Cranston
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 3 : 20-Dec-19

Average household wealth increased by $10,698 in the September quarter, to a record $428,573.5 per person. The Australian Bureau of Statistics data also shows that the household debt to assets ratio eased from 18.9 times to 18.5 times during the quarter, which coincided with two interest rate cuts and income tax relief. Meanwhile, the household savings rate rose from 2.7 per cent to 4.8 per cent in the three months to September, but growth in consumption fell to 0.1 per cent, compared with 0.4 per cent in the June quarter.

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AUSTRALIAN BUREAU OF STATISTICS