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An important conversation
None of us likes to consider our own mortality. For our older loved ones, it’s an even more confronting topic and difficult to discuss...
Traps to avoid in retirement - Investing too conservatively
Just because you stop working doesn’t mean your money should too.
Why it just got harder to get a home loan!
Anyone applying for a home loan these days will find that there are more hurdles to jump than has recently been the case. So why is it...
Traps to avoid in retirement ~ Going too hard too fast
Retirement: you’ve made it! And one of the rewards for all your hard work is that you can now access your superannuation. Suddenly a...
Household debt...is it consuming you?
By the end of 2018 Australia had, relative to the size of its overall economy, one of the highest levels of household debt in the world....
Tax and deceased estates
Although death duties were abolished in Australia many years ago, a number of tax issues remain which must be handled effectively by legal p
If I was 25 again I would… …pay off my credit card in full every month.
While convenient, credit cards can be a real trap. Touch and go technology in particular makes it easy to spend without thinking of the grow
Make your credit card a friend
We easily justify using credit for things we know we shouldn’t. Temptation is cruel, often irresistible.
New credit card rules. How does this affect you?
Today we have almost 16 million credit cards in circulation, a fact that has caused successive governments to regulate, and further-regulate
Divorce after 50 and the financial effects
While divorce carries a heavy emotional burden at any age, the financial stakes for older divorcees can be greater, and the prospect of star
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