B Comm (Hons)
Senior Economist - Economics
Richard is the company's principal economic forecaster, being largely responsible for the short term economic forecasts presented at BIS Shrapnel's half yearly conferences in March and September. He contributes forecasts and analysis to the regular subscription services, Economic Outlook and Long Term Forecasts. He also regularly analyses and forecasts resources investment and civil engineering construction activity, and production of manufactures, consumer goods and commodities. In this work, he has developed considerable industry expertise in the construction, manufacturing, agricultural services, commodity and resources sectors of the Australian and state economies.
Richard has also been involved in a wide range of consultancy projects including formulating end-use sector demand models for forecasting product demand, project evaluation studies, cost-benefit analysis, assessments of individual property markets and analysing the consistency of escalators in contracts. Some other projects have included analysing and forecasting freight tonnages; a study of the repair and maintenance market; the preparation of economic arguments for the National Wage Case for a private industry group; regular analysis and detailed short and long term forecasts of economic variables in a number of overseas countries; prospects for investment in Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands; and contributing discussion papers to CEDA (Committee for Economic Development in Australia).