Money features
Shares Race ends with most contestants under water
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.
Being rich makes you smarter
Here are some ideas to relieve money worries and increase the quality of your financial decisions, and as a result, your general intelligence.
Lower returns ahead for investors
So far, financial year superannuation fund returns have been good with the prospect of double digit returns if world share markets don't tank in June.
Furious finance lecturer charges $1000 for eaten card
What do you get for the $2 fee for using another bank's ATM? A finance lecturer believes the answer is nothing.
Why it's important to know what fees you are paying on super
Fund managers and super funds with high fees claim that it's not fees that matter, but the returns after fees.
When will you get a pay rise? Solving the riddle of low wages growth in Australia
Something odd is happening to the pay-packets of Australians. Adjusting for inflation, wages have shrunk.
The only insider info on ASX companies that's legal
You can't read company directors' minds, but you can track when they buy and sell shares.
'Giving up drinking saved me $4000 a year'
When I was forced to quit alcohol because of long-term medication, I was not very impressed.
Australians paying $31 billion in super fees every year
Australians are paying $31 billion in superannuation fees every year, with half that money going to funds that manage just 30 per cent of all accounts.
The one thing wealthy super fund members need to do before June 30
June 30 is rapidly approaching and there is still much confusion among the wealthier members of our society regarding the $1.6 million limit for superannuation.
The big problem of super for small-business owners
How would you rate the chances of 2 million small-business owners having adequate superannuation?
Tipsters struggle to make headway in lacklustre sharemarket
Another lacklustre week for the sharemarket has left our tipsters largely treading water in week three of the four-week Shares Race.
Borrowers warned to brace for across-the-board mortgage rate increases
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.
Downsizing provisions are a mixed bag
While far from ideal, the budget initiative to allow older Australians to deposit up to $300,000 each in superannuation when they downsize their home is welcome.
Why the banks should absorb the cost of the levy
I know of no other industry where the taxpayer underwrites borrowings – it's a unique arrangement and one that the banks can't characterise as "just another cost", writes Mark Bouris.
What the Moneyball story teaches us about investment
Does share market investment require a technology-driven approach, or is it not that simple?
RateSetter matches investors with borrowers for clean energy
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.
Why German speakers are prone to be penny pinchers
Once again, it's the German speakers who pinch their pennies.
Super funds for bank employees among the best performers
The banks have some of the best-performing super funds of all, at least for their employees.
Meet the real high taxpayers. They're not high earners
The budget pushed low-income earners' marginal tax rate up towards 100 per cent.
'What having my laptop stolen in Paris taught me about the housing crisis'
Ultimately all my swearing and carrying on isn't going to change anything.