Writes about personal finance for Fairfax Media, Sydney, Australia.
Are providers being too clever with the latest breed of the funds that use "smart beta" strategies that increase the risks for investors and have fees twice that of vanilla exchange traded funds (ETFs).
Sydneysiders and Melburnians heading off on road trips this coming Queen's Birthday long weekend are urged to delay filling their car until later in the week or on the holiday weekend as petrol prices in both cities continue to fall.
The prices of energy, health care and even taking companion animals to the vet have risen far in excess of price rises generally.
Would you get a genetic test if you knew that insurance companies can demand to see the results?
The Shares Race has ended with a whimper, as six of our eight tipsters finished the four-week race with less than their original $100,000.
Fund managers and super funds with high fees claim that it's not fees that matter, but the returns after fees.
Another lacklustre week for the sharemarket has left our tipsters largely treading water in week three of the four-week Shares Race.
Despite official interest rates being on hold at an historic low of 1.5 per cent since August 2016, mortgage rates have been rising over that time.
Investors will be able to lend to borrowers to install clean energy in their homes, such as solar panels, after a tie-up between peer-to-peer lender RateSetter and the government's Clean Energy Finance Corporation.
The banks have some of the best-performing super funds of all, at least for their employees.
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