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Achieving your dream of home ownership can be both an exciting and daunting prospect. It's often an emotionally charged financial decision so it's important to plan carefully. There are a number of considerations worth accounting for when preparing ... 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

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

Among Australians looking to realise their dream of home ownership, COVID-19 has prompted many to put their plans on hold, at least for the time being. One of the key reasons for the delay is that more than two-thirds of first home buyers have had to ... More

There's something missing from the current market conversation. Despite some spectacular gains for stocks around the globe, no-one is using the b-word. To professional traders, the habit of calling any rise in prices a bubble is as irritating as ... More

The recent experience of living through the COVID-19 pandemic has shown Australians that there are a multitude of ways to change saving and budgeting behaviours for the better. When saving for a deposit for a first home, modifying lifestyles and thinking ... More

For many Australians, the gravity of COVID-19 has challenged us to take a deeper look at the way we live and spend. We have changed our lifestyles either by necessity or choice and in many cases, adopted new behaviour. Behavioural experts say it takes ... More

Last financial year - 2019-20 - was the most volatile financial year for the share market in more than a decade. The S&P/ASX 200 index rose to an all-time high, before plunging to a seven year low. The recovery from the March 2020 low was unevenly distributed ... More

The stock market bug first bit me in 1990. I became obsessed with analysing companies and predicting whether the price of their stock would go up, down or sideways. I devoured annual reports, financial newspapers and magazines and books on investing. ... More