Money

Planning

Welcome to aged-care season

Heather Watson helped find her aunt Marjorie MacLeod a place in the same nursing home as Heather's parents.

The festive season can be as overwhelming as it is merry, especially when you're confronted by the frailty of elderly relatives.

Straight talk on the age pension

Wasting money to upsize your pension payments doesn't make good financial sense.

The age pension assets test is being tightened, and some pensioners will lose all or part of their pension come January 1, but it is still one of the most generous age pension systems in the world.

How to have a good divorce

PROPERTY. PIC RAYNER. PROPERTY SPLIT UPS. Generic divorce picture.

Getting divorced or becoming separated is the worst financial decision that anyone is most likely to make.

Low investment returns bite

Low growth is squeezing investment returns.

​Funding a comfortable retirement has always been a challenge for many Australians but now it's even more difficult.

When can you afford to retire?

Many younger households are on track to have enough  super for a comfortable retirement, a recent report said.

Once you know what your retirement looks like, you can figure out how much money you will need to fund it each year and then how soon you can actually do it.