Judo Bank chief economic advisor Warren Hogan’s bold call that the Reserve Bank would press ahead with aggressive interest rate rises to tame rampant inflation makes him the best economic forecaster in the past 12 months among the 29 forecasters surveyed by The Australian Financial Review.

The veteran economist was the only one to predict the cash rate would hit 4.35 per cent by the end of the year from 3.1 per cent when asked in December 2022.