investing

We have recently had a baby boy and would like to set up some form of investment or account where we will deposit money on a regular basis. Our intention is that he will access it later in life. What do you suggest would be a suitable course of action ... More

Some label the FIRE movement a cult and some find it life-changing. US finance writer Suze Orman hates it, while FIRE bloggers and podcasters hide their identities so their bosses won't know. And now there is a powerful documentary about the Financial ... More

Q. We have received a $140,000 inheritance. We have two kids, aged 12 and 9, a mortgage of $340,000 on a four-bedroom house in Sydney's Sutherland Shire and we earn about $100,000 in combined income. We have no other loans except our mortgage and a ... More

Investors who put their money into a broad-based Australian shares index exchange traded fund (ETF) made a whopping 13.1% over the 2018-19 year. They were way in front - by 7.2% - of investors who followed an active Australian shares exchange traded ... More

Q. My daughter is 17, in her final year at school and works part-time (about 12 hours a week). To date she has savings of about $2500 parked in a bank account and she would like to plan for her future by investing her savings somewhere other than in ... More

When I was young, living on a farm in central NSW, my family had a faded green Valiant station wagon. Each Sunday on the way home from church, my siblings and I would sit in the boot of the car with the back window wound down as dad tore through the ... More

One of the most common, repetitive and negative thought patterns is financial uncertainty. Left unaddressed it is like an undiagnosed cancer, a constant niggle that can eat away at your frame of mind in the short term with potentially catastrophic long-term ... More

The May issue of Money is on sale now. From the Netflix of car ownership to how to get a mortgage as a casual worker, here's what you can expect. Pay off your mortgage or invest? It's an age-old question - to pay off your mortgage, or build wealth alongside ... More

The odds of the RBA cutting rates have shifted It doesn't seem that long ago that most economists were saying the next move in interest rates would be up. Given that the official cash rate is still at a historically low 1.5%, it was reasonable to assume ... More

The big news this week was the Federal Budget along with the RBA meeting on interest rates . Both had the potential to affect our market, but so far neither is raising any alarm bells as the All Ordinaries Index has continued to rise. What went relatively ... More