There’s no better time than the present to get your personal finance in order.
Building wealth certainly doesn’t happen overnight and as much as property investment is key, this all begins with how you manage your money.
These articles offer the best advice from finance industry experts so you can learn how to benefit from long-term monetary strategies.
Use our drag-and-drop interactive to find out how incomes, financial wellbeing, and housing stress has changed since 2001 for various ‘family types’, including singles or couples without children. Do you feel that, overall, you’re “better off” than you were in the past? Or that things are getting worse, or have plateaued? We now have the data to get us…
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The rich are getting richer, and the poor are… also getting richer. There’s a lot written about how the rich are getting richer, about income inequality and about how much wealth “the top 1 percent” own. This typically examines wealth in the context of a single country. But when you consider a global perspective, you’re already in…
What does success look like? It’s fair to say that we’re living in some interesting times. People are launching lucrative careers through video platforms, such as YouTube, and making money from the number of social media followers they have. Good luck to those who are doing it, of course, but in this celebrity-driven era it’s…
Many children receive gift cards or even ask for them so they can choose their own presents. But are youngsters ready to handle the wiles of advertisers and the complexities of ‘credit’ on a card? Louise Grimmer, University of Tasmania and Martin Grimmer, University of Tasmania Western children have more toys, games and possessions than ever before. And Australia has one of the highest rates of average spending per child on toys. Faced with a glut…
The Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey, out today, found women exhibiting much lower levels of financial literacy than men – how do you score? writes… Roger Wilkins, University of Melbourne The Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey tells the stories of the same group of Australians over the…
How’s life? Obviously, there’s more to life than how many properties you own or how much money you have in the bank. The OECD has created a Better Life Index allowing you to compare well-being across countries, based on 11 topics the OECD has identified as essential, in the areas of material living conditions and …
Charles Koch is a multi-billionaire. Charles and his brother David took over their father’s business and transformed it into the largest privately held company in the world. He was recently asked in a Time Magazine interview about what he attributes his enormous success in life to. Charles responded that if it were not for…
Australians are losing about $1 million a week to investment scams according to Scamwatch by the ACCC This represents an average month on month increase in losses of 117 per cent compared to last year. Interestingly, men (63.5% of scam reports) are twice as likely as women (33.8% of scam reports) to be targeted by…
You’ve heard the story about the goose that laid the golden eggs, haven’t you. I believe it was an Aesop’s fable. Well imagine that you can go to a store and say: “I’d like to buy a goose that lays an egg please. One that will pay me a 10% return on its purchase price.” Wouldn’t…
Hanging in the balance History is littered with the names of billionaires and wildly wealthy individuals that suffered from sadness, personal tragedy, illness, or depression. While it may be hard for most of us to emphathise with the super-wealthy, this alone is compelling evidence that success and happiness should be measured in more than solely…
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