Tips for boosting your superannuation

Highlights Emerging from a two-year long pandemic has presented a laundry list of problems, not the least of which is rapidly rising inflation. With high inflation come rising interest rates, which leave Australians scrambling to stash ...

Highlights  While Australian super funds don’t yet invest in cryptocurrency, individuals with self-managed funds can include digital assets if they so choose. Despite its short-term volatility, crypto’s long-term potent ...

Rising energy prices, soaring inflation and interest rates, supply chain bottlenecks, and other disruptions caused by the pandemic have been impacting the stock market for quite some time now. The market was gradually recovering from the im ...

Highlights Not only does refinancing provide owners with a chance to consolidate debt and release equity but, more importantly, it gives those owners the chance to land on cheaper interest rates. According to the Reserve Bank of Aus ...

Highlights If you’ve ever applied for credit, including a credit card, home loan, car loan or personal loan, you’ll have what’s known as a credit report (otherwise known as credit history). The good news is, there is a ...

Highlights The UK inflation has hit a fresh 30-year high of 5.5% in January 2022. The Bank of England has doubled the interest rates from 0.25% to 0.5% after the inflation in UK surged to 5.4% in December 2021. Interest rate is used to ...

Six months after undergoing emergency surgery for aortic dissection, which culminated in a spinal stroke, Cairns received the terrible news that he’d been diagnosed with bowel cancer. Cairns is one of the most talented all-rounders t ...

Highlights  Homeowners can reduce their taxes by acquiring a mortgage offset account. Capital gains refer to the money made through the selling of an asset, like shares or a house, where a profit has been made. People often miss o ...

Stats NZ has revealed that the cost of living among Kiwi households was up by 5.2% in the quarter ended December 2021 in comparison to the costs a year earlier. In fact, this rise has been the highest since 2008 and is being witnessed by th ...

Highlights  Investing is a process of allocating money on assets with an expectation to generate an income or profit over time. Investing works when you purchase shares of any company at a low price and sell it at a higher price, w ...