November
Too lavish for your own good? Seven steps to beat lifestyle creep
In the weeks following a pay rise, there’s a short (but science-backed) opportunity to really get your finances on track, say the experts.
- Lucy Dean
October
‘Only buy stuff for our kids’: Families pull back on spending
Petrol prices are just one of the rising costs pushing cellist Hanna Oblikov to cut back on new clothes and eating out – and research shows she’s not alone.
- Euan Black
April
The Disneyland trip that guided this AFL player to wealth management
Michael Mansfield has forged a successful career in financial advice after playing in three AFL grand finals for Geelong and surviving two open-heart surgeries.
- Gus McCubbing
November 2022
Cost pressures forcing tough decisions on kids’ education: survey
As families struggle to pay rising bills, their children’s education comes under pressure.
- Julie Hare
Why Australians are ‘cycling’ their Netflix
The big question for Australia’s overcrowded streaming services is whether viewers will start to cancel subscriptions as cost pressures rise. The surprising answer from five very different households is that price is not the main concern on their minds.
- Edmund Tadros
September 2022
‘It’s no surprise we’re more financially stressed than ever’
As the cost of living soars, workers are becoming more distracted and less productive, and this comes at a hefty price.
- Lucy Dean
June 2022
A third of Americans making $348,000 live pay cheque to pay cheque
About 36 per cent of households taking in nearly four times the median US salary devote nearly all their income to household expenses.
- Alex Tanzi
March 2022
Five tips that let me travel to 27 countries while saving for a home
Entrepreneur Danielle Desir booked her plane tickets months in advance and rented to roommates to help with mortgage payments.
- Leo Aquino
February 2022
Why budgeting tips are booming on TikTok
Budgeting had a big week on TikTok as posts on the short-video platform with the hashtag budgeting surged as market volatility and the threat of inflation continued.
- Alice Kantor
January 2022
Fixed home loans could spur a faster rise in rates
The rush to fixed-rate mortgages, more than $220 billion in household savings, and improved wage growth could force the RBA into quicker and more forceful action.
- Ronald Mizen
September 2021
House prices lift wealth by $1 trillion in six months
Property owners experienced the fastest growth to their personal wealth in more than a decade due to rocketing house prices.
- Ronald Mizen
July 2021
Afterpay’s Money app to target young, female bank customers
Afterpay said its new app, to be called Money, will launch in October and Westpac will pay its customers a 1 per cent interest rate, as the payments juggernaut attempts to steal young customers from the major banks.
- James Eyers
Generation Z should fear a universal basic income
Minneapolis is offering $US500 a month for 18 months to 150 low-income residents with no work or spending restrictions but others worry it’s not so simple.
- Allison Schrager and Bloomberg Opinion
Six in 10 Millennials earning $134,000+ live pay cheque to pay cheque
Some of them, known as HENRYs – short for high earner, not rich yet – prefer a comfortable, expensive lifestyle.
- Bianca Healey
October 2020
How tax cuts can backfire on your finances
Cash windfalls can come with a psychological trade-off if investors aren't equipped with a good strategic plan – and the willpower to stick to it – say financial advisers.
- Aleks Vickovich
Millennials defy Frydenberg on tax cut spending
A straw poll suggests many intend to save the gains from income tax cuts in the federal budget, flying in the face of the government's hopes the relief will boost consumption.
- Aleks Vickovich
September 2020
How to maximise your pandemic pocket change
Six certified financial planners on what they would advise a 30-year-old, slightly above-average-income earner to do with the savings made from the cancelled commute to work.
- Aleks Vickovich
July 2020
- Opinion
- Opinion
Avoid problems with an aged care deposit refund
Before making the call to pay a lump sum refundable accommodation deposit, it can pay to put a process in place to make sure it is returned to the right person.
- Louise Biti
May 2020
Fewer Australians feeling depressed by the crisis
The proportion of Australians expecting the effect of the pandemic on economic activity to last for more than 12 months has fallen from 57 per cent to 50 per cent.
- Matthew Cranston
Most expect virus hit to economy will last longer
People expecting the impact of the pandemic to last for more than 12 months has jumped to 57 per cent from 46 per cent the week before.
- Matthew Cranston
