Australians are living longer, but whether our retirement income system is coping is a question the federal government wants answered (and consumers need answered) before June 2020. The government wants an answer because the Productivity Commission ...
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Superannuation is a bit like cholesterol - and not just because both have long names. By the time you need to know about it, you wish you'd known more, earlier. It's not hard to put super on the backburner. Most of us are too busy in the present ...
One of my grandmothers was a self-funded retiree in a capital city who took an active interest in her investments. The other lived in a small country town and survived fortnight-to-fortnight on the age pension. Let's call them Rich Nan and Poor ...
Q. I'm 32 and my wife Annabel is 28. We have recently sold our first home due to my moving for work. We plan to rent in our new location and we will have around $150,000 cash in savings. I currently have a Vanguard fund with around $10,000 invested ...
In recent years consumer groups have called for internet services to be regulated in the same way as water, gas and electricity. On the surface this makes sense, especially as more utility providers bundle their services on the one bill. The case for ...
Identifying bad superannuation funds will be easier from December with a new colour coded heat map from the superannuation fund regulator, APRA. There are currently around 100 MySuper funds but it can be complex to tell the good value, strongly performing ...
This year's fire season has already seen 1100 insurance claims totalling $115 million, according to Insurance Council of Australia. As bushfires become more severe, the number of insurance claims will continue to grow. Knowing what you're covered ...
Interest rates are at record lows, but this doesn't mean homeowners should get complacent about their mortgage. A minor difference in rates can significantly reduce the amount of interest payable over the life of your loan. Even a rate reduction ...
Young people are less likely to buy a home than they were in the past, new research by the Arc Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research (CEPAR) shows. UNSW Sydney senior research fellow and lead author Rafal Chomik says the findings are in ...
Generating a 33% return in 10 weeks is the stuff of dreams, even for the top echelon of active traders. Yet this time it wasn't the achievement of a top professional trader. That honour goes instead to Daniel Goh, a Year 11 economics student at ...
