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Windfall for travellers to US who lock-in their money now
The upbeat Australian dollar is a bonus for those intending to travel overseas, especially for those heading to the United States.
Writes about personal finance for Fairfax Media, Sydney, Australia.
The upbeat Australian dollar is a bonus for those intending to travel overseas, especially for those heading to the United States.
Directors of superannuation funds will be subject to much tougher penalties for doing the wrong thing with jail terms of up to five years, under proposed changes to the laws that govern superannuation.
Improving global growth and profits as well as low interest rates have underpinned very strong returns for sharemarkets.
Fresh from her victory in the last Shares Race, Angie Ellis, of 80 20 Investments, takes a commanding lead in the first week of the new four-week race.
Australia is in sixth place in a global ranking of welfare in retirement of 43 countries
The superannuation pool is forecast to reach $3 trillion in just three years, from $2.4 trillion now.
Angie Ellis of 80 20 Investments wins the four-week Shares Race.
Hard-working people are being left tens of thousands of dollars short at retirement.
The days of financial advice firms calling themselves "independently owned" or similar words when they are not so are coming to an end.
Lynda and Graham Turner bought thousand of dollars worth of US and Canadian dollar travellers' cheques from American Express and then couldn't use them.
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