Money features
The five flaws in our current risk insurance system
Today, I want to talk about the most ignored and, arguably, most vital piece of your financial security puzzle: risk insurance.
Angie Ellis' winning streak continues with strong start to new game
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.
Questions remain over defined benefit schemes
While defined benefit pensioners now know precisely how the Australian Tax Office will value their pension in applying the new $1.6 million superannuation cap tax changes, the valuations for current contributions and deferred benefit members' entitlements are still works in progress.
Investors falling foul of rules on tax-deductible interest
It is still common for people to find themselves in financial strife because they do not understand the tax implications of their actions.
Rates are low. Here's how to take advantage while you can
The Reserve Bank suggested this week interest rates could more than double in the next few years.
Australia's multibillion-dollar legal tax avoidance loophole
Billions of dollars of tax revenue is being lost due to wealthy Australians using family trusts.
Australia near top in global retiree wellbeing
Australia is in sixth place in a global ranking of welfare in retirement of 43 countries
Sharemarket rebound adds $140b to super funds
Superannuation funds have rebounded in the 2017 financial year with the average balanced option delivering a 10.4 per cent return, according to SuperRatings research.
Investing with a conscience needn't mean lower returns
Say what you will about ethics in finance, but a big change sweeping through large chunks of this industry is the shift towards investing with a social conscience.
Why super can't be 'set and forget' for women
Millions of women are missing out on thousands of dollars in investment earnings because they are not in the best performing funds, research shows.
Cure yourself of the Carrie Complex
Hands up who wanted to be Carrie from Sex and the City when they grew up?
The superannuation lobby's field of straw men
It's an uncomfortable truth that ASFA's measure of a "comfortable" retirement supports an affluent lifestyle more luxurious than most Australians experience during their working lives.
Beware of bragging money managers
​Investing is one of the most accountable pursuits you can undertake in one important way: the scoreboard is - metaphorically - 40 feet high and unavoidable.
Ellis up 25pc at midpoint of Year-Long Shares Race
Halfway through the Year-Long Shares Race, seven of our 12 tipsters are in the black and beating the All Ordinaries Index.
'Why I spent $4000 on a backyard trampoline'
The trampoline is one of the few activities that my two kids, who have very different personalities, enjoy together without fighting.
Do the sums before you sign up to a reverse mortgage
The property boom of the past few decades means that many Australians retire asset rich, but cash poor.
Time to review salary sacrifice
For those wanting to lower tax bills and build up retirement assets, making tax deductible super contributions is now much easier.
The alternative to selling your home to fund aged care
Selling your home to fund aged care might be the right decision, but sometimes borrowing against the home is necessary, or even a better choice.
What we can learn from the Trump-voting 'hillbillies'
There are practical ways to combat learned helplessness when it comes to your finances, writes Catherine Robson.
Super industry defends 'comfortable' retirement
Australians need to make up their own minds about the standard of living they aspire to in retirement.
'I know how ruthless they are': What the new credit reporting system means for you
A warts and all approach to credit history is being phased in, and it could have major ramifications for Australian borrowers.
How a dip in child support and Airbnb helped one mum make more than $10,000
An Australian writer in New York City gets creative with her apartment.