Caitlin Fitzsimmons
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Gaming the system can be a personal finance trap
Caitlin Fitzsimmons It's human nature to try to find the loophole, but it can lead to poor financial decisions.
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Girls get less pocket money
Caitlin Fitzsimmons Pocket money can be a force for good, but we're letting our girls down.
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Can online banking customers share logins with fin-tech services? Yes, no, maybe
Caitlin Fitzsimmons Using fin-tech services might break the terms and conditions of your online banking service, but that's not the end of the story.
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Why the 'internet of things' will mean junking expensive appliances more often
Caitlin Fitzsimmons Would you expect an oven that cost $2999 to conk out after seven years?
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School canteens go online, shunning cash
Caitlin Fitzsimmons Online ordering for school canteens is quickly becoming the norm, but not everyone is happy when cash is no longer an option.
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Innovation in electronic payments to accelerate demise of cheques
Caitlin Fitzsimmons It's been almost 20 years since I last owned a cheque book in Australia, and I never felt that anything was lacking until I tried to buy a house two years ago.
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Acorns turns your spare change into an investment portfolio
Caitlin Fitzsimmons A new app is launching in Australia that will take a few cents here and a few dollars there and invest it in exchange traded funds on your behalf.
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What The Big Short movie can teach ordinary people
Caitlin Fitzsimmons It's exciting watching the traders short the US mortgage market before the global financial crisis, but it's not something the rest of us can emulate.
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Home buyers' tips for bidding at auction
Caitlin Fitzsimmons Mind Over Money | If your goal is to buy a home, you need a strategy for how to deal with auctions.
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What to do if you leave your money on the ATM
Caitlin Fitzsimmons My budget requires a certain allowance for costs incurred while my mind was absent.
Workers owed $2.6b in unpaid super as government tries to reduce penalties
Caitlin Fitzsimmons and John Collett Dan Warne thinks it is "ridiculous and counterintuitive" that the government is considering reducing the penalties on employers that don't pay superannuation to effectively zero.
Talk taboo for many when money the subject
Caitlin Fitzsimmons and John Collett What is the most taboo subject for discussion: sex, money, politics, death or religion?
