The most common scams and how to avoid them
Call it an occupational hazard, but I've become so nervous of scammers and fraudsters that I now delete even legitimate emails from my providers.
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Nicole Pedersen-McKinnon
Financial editor, commentator and author, as well as a qualified financial adviser and stockbroker.
Nicole helps: fix a broken credit score
Nicole Pedersen-McKinnon commences a new weekly consumer finance help column, focused on helping readers with their money woes.
The financial spring clean that will save you $7500
How to turn messy money into tidy profit without lifting more than a few fingers.
Coalition's childcare reforms duds city families in fine print
This is the formula to figure out if you'll be worse off under the Coalition's childcare changes.
Dogs v cats? We'll pay vets almost double to treat one
The average dog owner is prepared to spend up to $4128 in one hit at the vet.
The 10 biggest money mistakes
​If you're smart, over your lifetime a deliberate trickle of "me" money will become a big personal pool of cash – which you can then happily splash. But all too often, slip-ups along the way instead drain a fun fund.
Forget unstable super, attack your mortgage while it's dirt cheap
Superannuation offers tax advantages but it can't beat the security of a fully paid off home and the time to tackle the debt mountain is while rates are cheap.
The cheaper debt product Aussies forgot. Hint: it's not plastic
We're in love with credit cards, but that costs us more than it needs to.
Donor family wants insurance victory to help everyone
A Queensland family poised to go through live organ donation has scored a significant insurance victory that it hopes will ease the financial burden on other families in the same traumatic situation.
Glenn, saving your daughter is 'elective'
If you hold income-protection insurance inside superannuation, hope a family member doesn't one day need you to donate an organ – it won't pay out.
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