Easing into retirement

Easing into retirement

As the nation drifts back to work and study after the summer break, it’s often a time to start putting your New Year’s resolutions into practice. For some, an extended holiday may have convinced you that you are ready for more of the good life and that it’s time to...
Top Five finance tools for women

Top Five finance tools for women

Want to boost your financial literacy? These female-focused podcasts, books and courses have advice, tactics and tips to build wealth Rise of the financially empowered female The average net wealth of Australian women is now 89 per cent of that of men1, with the rise...
Why is ageing hard to talk about?

Why is ageing hard to talk about?

In life, many of us are totally at ease and comfortable talking to our family and friends about many topics. However, for whatever reason, there are certain subjects that we’re either reluctant or feel uneasy to discuss openly – typically they are love and...
How discipline has paid off for share market investors

How discipline has paid off for share market investors

Investors worldwide have been rattled by the heightened volatility on share markets over recent weeks. A combination of factors have largely been to blame, particularly fears around rising interest rates as global inflation levels continue to surge. Over January the...
5 top investment truths

5 top investment truths

Many of us have probably received in our in-boxes spams for get-rich-quick-schemes with promises of making great amounts of money, effortlessly. If only getting rich was so easy. Rather than pipedreams being sold by spammers, here’s a list of 5 investment principles...
Know your property’s real value

Know your property’s real value

Imagine yourself on selling day where you’re left wondering how you got the price so wrong. Now imagine the opposite, where your home sells for what you’d hoped – or more. It’s important that you’re confident about the market in order to develop realistic expectations...