If you can’t get comfortable with risk, opportunities to grow your wealth are greatly reduced. Because when it comes to investing, the bigger the risk, the bigger the reward. “When confronted with the sharemarket moving up and down, there’s a perception that it’s just too risky,” says Julia Lee from Burman Invest. “There’s a reason… Read more »
If you feel like your debts are getting away from you, it’s time to get busy with debt consolidation. Credit card debt can be a tough burden to carry, especially when sky high interest rates continue to compound and grow the interest cost each month. Throw in a mortgage, a car loan and another credit… Read more »
The ATO has a vigilant tax audit program in place. So at tax time it’s critical to assess the risk profile of your investments and know what they’re looking for. With group certificates and financial year end investment statements about to hit, the attention of most investors turns to tax. The aim is not to… Read more »
Balancing the family budget is one of the toughest tasks for any household. So, finding and fixing financial leaks will make it so much easier. It’s the great Australian squeeze: prices keep going up but wages growth isn’t keeping pace. No matter how tight a ship you try to run, there always seems to be… Read more »
I’d like to urge you – in the nicest possible way – to consider what will happen to your estate when you die. Yep, dead. Carked it. Fallen off the twig. I’m not being morbid or funny, but it is going to happen some time and often you don’t have any say in what happens… Read more »
Looking to set some financial goals? Remember, it’s all about a change in behaviours and creating achievable financial habits to get you there. Money doesn’t buy happiness but it can certainly help. And the key is building healthy financial habits. These are the daily, weekly monthly and yearly practises that you do without fail. After… Read more »
Welcome to Australia’s property market, it’s boiling hot with minimal signs of cooling down. According to data from CoreLogic, Australian capital city property values have increased by 26.17 per cent on average over the past five years. In Sydney, the average house price is predicted to skyrocket by $216,000 this year alone. As Australia’s property… Read more »
Making sure your kids get a great financial education can go a long way to helping them become successful as an adult. With a bit of luck, it could even make your kids rich. All parents are responsible for helping their kids learn the ways of the world. But while most of us are pretty good… Read more »
I’ve found it’s actually our basic psychology that pushes us to make bad decisions with money. But you can hack the system… The more research and work I do with people around money, the more I realise we’re actually hard wired to be unsuccessful. We’re destined for failure from the start and actually have very… Read more »
No matter where you are in life, partnering with a good financial adviser will help to set and achieve your financial goals. But with over 15,000 advisers operating in Australia, finding someone with the right combination of trustworthiness and expertise can be tough. Here are five tips to get things started and give yourself your… Read more »
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