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Between the bushfire crisis early this year and the COVID-19 pandemic, people are more aware that environmental and social issues impact every part of their lives, including their investments. There's strong demand for products that that take into ... More

Gold is known for being a dependable defensive play to safeguard your wealth when volatility is high and fair-weather assets are under threat. So it's no surprise that the spot price is soaring during this COVID-19 pandemic. But there's more ... More

How much do you know about mortgage trusts? Have you considered investing in one yourself? There are many different vehicles available to build wealth and how you choose to park your investment dollars can be influenced by many different factors, including ... More

If you had to pick just one company on the Australian share market that you're convinced will have a higher share price a year from now, which would it be? On the surface, it sounds like an easy challenge. After all, there are more than 2000 companies ... More

Bernard Salt is Australia's foremost demographer, a futurist, columnist, business adviser and author. He is able to interpret demographic data to show how social and cultural changes reshape the way we live, work and form relationships. His job ... More

The regulator ASIC is warning retail (smaller) investors to be cautious when investing in fixed-term products that directly compare themselves to bank term deposits. It is seeing a surge in marketing and advertisements for fixed-term investment products ... More

The Australian corporate reporting season in August provides valuable information for individual and institutional investors. Whether investing the first $1000 earned from an Instagram account, steering a self-managed super fund (SMSF) or navigating ... More

I am 91 and my wife is in her mid-80s. She is conservatively inclined in regard to her funds but has become progressively depressed as to how to retain the integrity of her capital. In the past few years she has taken some pride in playing one bank ... More

Livinia Nixon began her career in TV commercials in the 1990s before moving to children's television show Plucka's Place , iconic Aussie classic Hey Hey It's Saturday and then to radio before returning to television hosting quiz shows Temptation ... More

Simon Longstaff is the executive director of the Ethics Centre, which he has led since 1980, helping navigate the question of ethics in politics banking, law and medicine. The latter was particularly pertinent at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic. ... More