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Quarterly property update: November – January 2022 After a bumper year across the Australian property market – from the city to the regions - experts are predicting slower price growth ahead. However, with limited supply and low interest rates for the foreseeable...

What is Home Care? Home Care (also known as in-home care, community care, home help, home support and in-home nursing care) is the umbrella term for a range of services that allow people to remain living independently in their own homes. Many elderly Australian’s take...

Consolidating your super means moving all your super into one account. It makes your super easier to manage, and saves on fees. Before you consolidate, pick the best super fund for you. You can transfer your super for free in a few simple steps. If you're ready to...

It’s been a rocky start to the year on world markets but that doesn’t mean you should hit the panic button. Staying the course is generally the best course, but that’s easier said than done when there’s a big market fall. In January markets plunged some 10 per cent...

Key points More than 5 million Australians have signed up to buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) platforms like Afterpay and Zip.1 The convenience, easy approval and interest free terms associated with BNPL platforms are attractive to many. However, one in five consumers are...

Investment returns are unpredictable. Take last year, for example. Few would have predicted that the price of coffee beans would outperform global share markets. But that’s exactly what happened, thanks to a combination of unforeseen climatic events and the ongoing...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...