Caitlin Fitzsimmons
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How to buy cheap theatre tickets
Caitlin Fitzsimmons I found myself sharing a stage last week with a hip hop artist, a jewellery designer and entrepreneur, a medical doctor and a singer-songwriter.
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Control is the common key to the trifecta of health, wealth and happiness
Caitlin Fitzsimmons Can money make you happy? It's not about how much you have, but what you do with it.
NEGATIVE GEARING
How investors outgun first home buyers
Caitlin Fitzsimmons It's not just that one in three buyers are investors, it's also that they're disproportionately competing with first-home buyers.
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What playing with Lego taught me about managing money
Caitlin Fitzsimmons I had a financial epiphany while building a Lego aeroplane with my kids.
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The difference between secret spending and autonomy
Caitlin Fitzsimmons Money can cause difficulties in relationships, but it doesn't help to be too puritanical about it.
The secret mortgage rate banks don't like to discuss
Caitlin Fitzsimmons Banks prefer to keep an aura of mystery around some key information that would help borrowers make better decisions.
SHARES RACE
Shares Race: technology stocks outperform the market
Caitlin Fitzsimmons The all-female round of the Shares Race has concluded, with many contestants rewarded for tipping technology stocks.
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Fear keeps Aussies wedded to bad home loans
Caitlin Fitzsimmons Are you hampered by fear of paperwork, or fear of change?
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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?
