Brian Parker
speaker
1,041 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 16 Apr
Brian Parker’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You know, and certainly from a super fund's perspective.
But this thing, we certainly don't base investment decisions.
on my ability or anybody's ability to try and forecast the short term because we just don't think that's a reliable way to make money, especially when you are running superannuation money, which is a very long-term investment.
We're much more interested in what is inflation going to be over the next decade or longer?
What's growth going to be over the next decade or longer?
And that ironically tends to be more reliable because you can actually look at, well, what's the central bank targeting?
What's the economy's potential growth?
What's the population growth likely to be?
What's productivity growth likely to be?
You can make more sensible assumptions about that than you can about the short term.
Yeah, we're looking at a range of factors.
Yeah, well, look, at the end of the day, we're thinking about, and the central bank is also thinking about this, what are the fundamental drivers of inflation?
And fundamentally, it's how fast is demand growing versus how fast is supply growing?
And if demand is growing faster than supply, if you've got excess demand in the economy, it puts upward pressure on prices.
It makes the labor market tighter.
It puts wages and labor costs up.
It puts the price of a whole range of raw materials up, and it feeds through into higher inflation.
So they're looking at a whole range of indicators of consumer spending, so household income and spending data.
credit data, what the labour market is doing, what's the unemployment rate doing, what's labour demand doing, to try and work out and look at things like business surveys, you know, what are businesses telling us about what's happening to their order book, what's happening to their pricing power, et cetera.
So there's a whole range of indicators they look at to say, well, should rates go up or should they go down, or do we have things pretty much in balance and you can sort of sit there and do nothing.
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