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I’m a big believer that money education starts at home. Our children look up us as heroes and in my opinion a hero is a leader to their family. Money leadership is one of the most important responsibilities we have as…

I’m a stickler for being organised, for planning ahead, for sytemising and organising. If I sound proud of this, it’s because I am. For those in people in my life who have to put up with this constant need of mine to…

Australian shares have joined global markets in bear market territory. Here’s what’s driving it and what investors should consider.

“For many of us, building a sufficient superannuation balance for retirement is likely to be the most important thing we can achieve in our working life. After all, the quality of your lifestyle in retirement depends…

Procrastination is no doubt the number one reason why people don’t become successful at achieving what they dream of. It is caused by the change that needs to happen. And we, humans, don’t like change that much!

Stop taking advice from people that offer it for free. We’re all guilty of it at some stage in our lives. As we grow up, land our first job and receive our first pay check, friends, family and colleagues will all chip…

Should you be concerned about what’s going on in the share market/s lately?

In 1930, Harold Bell Lasseter claimed that when three decades earlier he rode on horseback from Queensland to the West Australian goldfields, he stumbled across a huge gold reef. Over the next 80 years, scores of…

Not only the victim suffers when a critical illness occurs; such a situation has serious repercussions for the entire family. Thanks to advances in medical science, survival rates from a serious critical illness…

Once upon a time, the mantra of the ethical investor was morals before profits. Not surprisingly, ethical investing remained a niche market. But not anymore.

“So little one, what do you want to be when you grow up?” It’s one of the first questions that many of us faced as youngsters, more often than not from a distant relative we couldn’t have recognised in a police line-up.

When you find out that your partner is wanting divorce, it’s like a traffic accident, everything goes into a slow motion. You can see it all unveiling around you, but you just don’t know what to do, or who to talk to.…