Money features
'I'm spending my inheritance trying to find my birth family'
The search for my biological family will make us postpone the plans to buy our dream home, perhaps indefinitely.
Ten things you're doing wrong at tax time
Putting together a tax return isn't exactly something most people relish.
Stretching your household dollar: Get ahead of the 'petrol gap'
Why you should remove your roof racks, and other tips to lower your petrol bill.
Slower growth is good news for first-home buyers
There's a lot of the talk at the moment about the idea of a housing bubble that's set to burst.
How to halve your grocery bill
‘I thought I stuffed up the maths’: How Melanie saved $100 a week on groceries.
Big Un and A2 Milk the best performers so far in year-long sharemarket game
Welcome to our regular check-in with the year-long Shares Race. The race started at the end of January with 12 tipsters selecting 10 stocks each.
Australia's most respected companies
The US list of most respected companies is out. Who would make the cut here?
Women make better investors than men
Women are more risk averse and this translates positively in returns.
Noel Whittaker's verdict after a year of using micro-investment app Acorns
For years I have been going on about the power of investing small sums of money.
Index funds v actively managed funds
For a combination of reasons, index-following managed and exchange traded funds have become increasingly popular with both individual and institutional investors.
It's not too late to boost your tax deductions
This year was going to be different.
Experts warn over the The Next Big Thing in investing
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).
Shopping strips feel the pain of weak wage growth
Well-known brands including Top Shop, Marcs, Pumpkin Patch, and David Lawrence are all casualties of a retail slump that has swept through shopping strips around the country.
Sydney and Melbourne petrol prices fall for long weekend
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.
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.