The Great Australian Savings Account Rip-Off!

Digital Finance Analytics (DFA) Blog

Dec 17 2023 | 00:20:09

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Show Notes

If you have savings with a bank in Australia, it is highly likely you are being ripped off. After all, Australian Consumers depend on retail deposit products to conduct their everyday banking, to safely store over $1.4 trillion of their savings and, importantly, to earn a decent return on these funds. However, as I have been highlighting in recent shows, changes in the cash rate (often referred to as the ‘official interest rate’) via the RBA, and which is the rate paid on lending between banks in the overnight cash market only indirectly affect the cost of funding from retail […]

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