There’s no right or wrong way to bring up your kids. I bet you’ve looked at some of your friend’s children and considered them spoilt brats. Well, research by Roy Morgan found children who have all the toys they want are more likely to grow up to want money, not happiness. The New Daily report the…
Articles by Rita Thomas
is a Property Strategist with an accounting background and over 30 years’ Commercial Banking experience. She is a passionate property investor who enjoys helping her clients create wealth through property investment using Metropole’s strategic approach.
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If you’re like most Australians, you have at least one credit card and one debit card in your wallet or on your smartphone. They may look alike – pieces of plastic with 16 numbers across them, expiration date, and a PIN code; but that’s where the similarity ends. Actually, they’re very different beasts. So how…
Lacing on your running shoes and pounding the pavement is a common way of keeping fit. But what about the people who go the extra mile? You know the ones – they’re the social runners who start out running five kilometres and then keep upping their distance goals. The next year they might train to…
Being good with money is a skill you can learn. Some people complain they aren’t very good with finances — they argue they don’t have a head for numbers — but I believe everyone can become wealthy if they know how. Part of it comes down to smart investments, sure, but the other, equally important part,…
When it comes time to make big financial decisions, research consistently shows that women more frequently hold the purse strings than men. While this is a positive finding, as women tend to make smart, thoughtful, informed financial decisions, it also has the potential to drop an anchor in your investment portfolio’s growth. If you’ve ever…
Soaring house prices might be a thorn for first home buyers, but the property boom in recent years has seen existing borrowers’ equity skyrocket. RateCity.com.au research shows in Sydney, an owner-occupier who bought a median-priced house in September 2019 with a 20 per cent deposit, paying principal and interest on a 30-year loan term has…
Do you know the difference between price and value? Well, you should… because the two principles are quite different and can make a big difference to your chances of achieving financial independence or freedom. Wise words from the “Oracle of Omaha” Warren Buffett is an American investor, industrialist, and philanthropist and is widely regarded as…
There is a serious problem regarding home loans, which is affecting tens of thousands of Australians according to Doug Mathlin, founder of Smart Borrower. He believes too many Australians are paying too much interest over the life of their home loan. So he wrote a letter to Federal Treasurer Josh Frydenberg proposing what he said…
Lockdowns continued to keep a lid on credit card spending in August, according to the latest Reserve Bank of Australia credit and charge card data . The latest Reserve Bank figures show lockdowns and the limited ability for a large portion of Australians to spend likely contributed to a reduction in the number and value…
Worrying new figures from the Australian Banking Association show 37 per cent of Australians have lost money to a scam or have a family member or close friend who has. The research also found: 99% of Australian adults have been exposed to a scam or fraud. 66% deal with a scam attempt every week. 29%…