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Australia is in the top five countries for life expectancy worldwide and Australians aged 64 now can expect to spend ...

Is the trend of running out of money in retirement increasing?

As a nation, we're pretty optimistic. We like to think things will turn out for the best, and if they don't, we usually have a back-up plan to see us through. While it's one of the traits I like most about Australian culture, optimism alone doesn't always cut it.

Investors turned on former market darlings such as Bellamy's Organic.

2016: A year of surprises

Things that are always clear in hindsight are never clear at the time. But 2016 has really outdone itself.

The HotCopper site is a sharemarket forum perhaps better known for spruiking and rampant speculation, rather than ...

HotCopper is too hot

There is as much hot air in HotCopper's share price as there is in its forums.

Labor's Andrew Leigh said the complaint figures did not take into account this month's IT system failures.

Entire ATO website down

The Tax Office ruled out a census-style "denial of service" attack as the reason for the loss of its entire website, saying the massive failure was due to hardware problems "not being caused by any external factors".

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

Straight talk on the age pension

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.