Wake up investors: the world has changed
Great moderation? Bollocks. The past 25 years were a period of massive excess, and sharemarket investors need to do their best to avoid the fall-out.
Get a grip on your finances
Is setting up a budget worth the pain? Absolutely, say financial planners and clients who've mastered their bottom line.
Results Wrap: ANZ, Medibank, Virgin
Welcome to The AFR reporting season blog for the first half. ■ ANZ ■ Medibank ■ Virgin ■ Santos ■ ASX
What's on the new $10 note (besides Banjo)
The new $10 note will have a clear window and a rolling patch of colour to secure it from counterfeiting. Here are its other features.
Interest rates are too low
Thank heavens some smart bankers are unilaterally lifting mortgage rates to cool housing market exuberance.
Unions, government headed for super showdown
Industry superannuation funds will exhaust the supply of skilled directors affiliated with their union and company backers.
ASIC goes undercover to expose property spruikers
ASIC investigators pretending to be investors will be used to pursue property spruikers and identify shonky practices in a planned probe in...
CGT hike will increase property prices
The property industry says hiking CGT on property would push investment into other assets, reduce supply and ultimately push house prices up...
Loans from the 'bank of mum and dad' double
The proportion of first-home buyers relying on help from their parents to enter the property market has more than doubled since the 1970s.
SMSFs with $10m in assets rise by 25 a month
About 25 self-managed super funds a month are hitting more than $10 million worth of assets, the Tax Office has revealed.
