Help the kids but don't give it all away
Want to help your offspring without bleeding yourself dry? Here's how.
Want to help your offspring without bleeding yourself dry? Here's how.
The tectonic plates in Australia's wealth sector didn't just slide in 2017, they crashed into each other, potentially leaving the industry in a permanently changed state.
Increased scrutiny of self-managed super funds, an ageing population and the slowdown in house price growth are combining to stem the billions of dollars that large super funds have been losing to the DIY sector.
Shopping centre landlords are starting to feel the disruptive power of online shopping as an increasing number of troubled retailers rebel against exorbitant rents.
New report claims poorer households would find it easier to enter the property market but younger, rich landlords would be worse off.
Officeworks CEO Mark Ward hasn't got time to worry about Amazon's arrival in Australia.
On a Qantas flight from Sydney to Shanghai last week the Chinese passengers returning home from watching Sydney's New Year's Eve fireworks only had praise for their time in Australia.
Amazon founder Jeffrey Bezos says he is donating $US33 million to a scholarship fund for young "dreamers," immigrants in the US.
Mike Yeager's new shale play is riding high on a resurgent oil price, and the former BHP oil boss says several factors will limit the US shale sector's ability to respond with higher production.
Retailing industry veteran Philip Corne has warned many retailers are still doing it tough.
Signs in the market that power prices are still rising have increased scepticism about the modelling of the Energy Security Board that electricity tariffs will fall over the next few years.
China has paved the way for investors to reshape their capital markets but have the interests of its policymakers and Western capital finally aligned?
​Wall Street continued its rally with record closing highs as the fourth-quarter earnings season kicked off with solid results.
The two-year Treasury yield jumped above 2 per cent, marking a rebound to a key psychological level last seen almost a decade ago.
Australian shares ended with slight gains on Friday but lost ground over the week, with an advance in the mining sector not enough to offset weakness elsewhere.
The Australian dollar is headed back toward a near four-month high after signs consumers may not be as downbeat as thought.
Shopping centre landlords are starting to feel the disruptive power of online shopping as an increasing number of troubled retailers rebel against exorbitant rents.
Is the fixed-rate government bond market – to be distinguished from floating-rate securities – in the mother-of-all bubbles? Very likely.
CEOs are taking a risky new path speaking out on social issues – but they may have no choice.
Time for a 2018 makeover for a 1970s classic.
Federal investigators want powers to secretly search homes and businesses, warning new technology it making it tougher to root out corruption and serious crime.
The ACTU has begun collecting information from customers of banks and financial institutions to pass to the royal commission.
Murdoch University has launched legal action against the NTEU, claiming its Facebook posts, tweets and protests are unlawful coercion.
More than 1.2 million Australians have taken up paid parental leave benefits since 2011.
Malcolm Turnbull's visit to Japan for security and trade talks comes amid regional tension with China and North Korea.
An adult-film star was paid $US130,000 by a lawyer for Donald Trump in the weeks before the 2016 election, according to reports.
Donald Trump is ignorant, vain, and morally unfit. But Michael Wolff's tell-all book misses the President's sheer cunning.
President Oprah would seal the US' fate as the country that no longer takes politics seriously.
Davos is relishing new attention being heaped on it with US President Donald Trump's decision to attend the World Economic Forum this month.
The US President says the US needs more immigrants from countries like Norway, and fewer from Africa.
The tectonic plates in Australia's wealth sector didn't just slide in 2017, they crashed into each other, potentially leaving the industry in a permanently changed state.
Shadow banks are slashing typical investment loans making the most of lighter regulation in the lead up to next month's return to work for most real estate agents.
ASX-listed Domacom is challenging some of the most fundamental aspects of superannuation law through a test case that may clear the way for people to live in a rental property owned by their super fund.
The former Liberal leader and ambassador to the US Andrew Peacock talks US politics from his home in Texas, over lunch with the AFR.
"We have members who won't employ apprentices," says Sandy Chong.
The Rich Lister will invest some of the proceeds and pour a lot of money into his charitable foundation.
A college student recognised his own big short opportunity when he read about an addict's death.
Two major Australian films with international aspirations have been unwittingly delayed by the controversy surrounding Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein.
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