Federal Treasurer Frydenberg announced continuing tax relief for low earners, help for older Australians to save for retirement and more assistance for first home buyers. Find out more…
If you experienced financial hardship in 2020, you may have decided to withdraw from your superannuation balance to tide you over. Find out what you can be doing to top up your super and keep your retirement savings on track…
With some distance now between us and the year that changed everything, we look back and consider what we’ve learned from 2020 and reasons for optimism for the rest of this year…
Instead of choosing between index and active investing, consider the core-satellite approach wherein the best aspects of both strategies are combined to construct a portfolio…
The Australian housing market is booming. Prices are rising sharply, auction clearance rates are very strong, sales are surging, and housing finance is around record highs…
It makes sense that the cheaper you buy an asset the higher its prospective return will be. However, this is frequently forgotten with investors often tempted to project recent returns into the future regardless of valuations…
Normally the RBA might now be starting to contemplate rate hikes for some time in the next year but their operating function is now very different to that seen prior to the pandemic…
The RBA has left interest rates on hold at 0.1 per cent, saying that while it was monitoring the housing market and economic recovery it remains committed to its current policy settings.
Plenty of evidence suggests markets do a good job of reflecting information about climate change in asset prices—which may encourage firms to manage their climate risk exposure…
There's been much discussion about recent events in the bond market both globally and in Australia, with even Warren Buffett weighing in on the topic, declaring that the fixed income market is not the place for investors to be these days…
Hungarian-born illusionist Harry Houdini was famous for his great escapes. So was American actor Steve McQueen, at least in his onscreen role in the 1963 film classic The Great Escape…