It can be hard to exercise your cooling-off rights – here's how to do it.

If strict budgeting isn't working for you, look for ways to earn extra income.

Riddle me this: is it sensible to have debt and savings at the same time?

Personal finance expert Nicole Pedersen-McKinnon answers your questions.

The cost of activities for children during the long break presents a significant financial burden for many families.

With expired gift cards costing consumers $200 million a year, pressure is building on other states and territories to follow NSW and make them valid for a minimum of three years.

With term one just around the corner, many parents are looking at ways to cut the costs of sending their children to school.

Inspired by the War on Waste but think waste-free living is unattainable?

Stop, take a deep breath and project forward … to your Christmas Freedom Date.

It seems everything is a subscription these days. If I scan through my bank statement, it's full of recurring payments.

The fight over ATM fees is expanding overseas, with ING Austraila offering fee-free withdrawals from every ATM in the world to customers who conduct their main banking business with the digital bank.

If you're in the market for a new phone, price isn't the only factor you should consider.

Questions 25-year-olds are generally a variation on the "champagne lifestyle" conundrum.

It pains me to say I have created a rod for my own back. We have three children, aged 7 through 18 months and we have always, every single year, had a party to celebrate the day of their birth.

The Morgan-Conley family doesn't own a car, but they're going against the tide.

Round-up apps and features make saving automatic and therefore, psychologically, pretty pain-free. But there are ways to use similar mind tricks, without waiting for the next bells-and-whistles product, to pay down your mortgage quickly and easily – and save a fortune.

ANZ Access customers will be able to use Apple Pay with in-store eftpos mobile payments, making the bank the first Australian financial institution to offer Apple Pay.

Round-ups boost savings by tapping into insights from behavioural finance, and they're going mainstream.

Retailers have suffered their worst two months since 2010, and there is a growing view among economists that it reflects a broader pattern of consumers growing more cautious with their money.

​The first mentions of Christmas are creeping into retail marketing, and for many Australians that signals unbridled spending and a January spent worrying how to pay-off the credit cards.

There are about 70 dress rental sites in Australia and some let you rent out your own clothing.

There is still time to make sure you finish the year well and are on a better financial footing to launch into 2018.

As we move away from payments in cash to technology-enabled transactions, other issues arise.

Buying and selling of preloved personal goods could be worth $43.5 billion a year and has grown by almost $4 billion over the past year.

Fred Liberatore believes that living a healthy lifestyle is better than any pill for not only living longer, but also living happier.

Financial expert Nicole Pedersen-McKinnon says becoming a rate tart is the only way to get decent interest on savings accounts, without meeting onerous conditions.

Financial expert Nicole Pedersen-McKinnon shares five ways to get the most out of private health insurance.

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We would be paying to stay in other people's homes in Paris and Rome - why not see if other people would pay to stay in ours in Melbourne?

iPhones sold in Australia have been getting dearer over the past few years compared with other countries, CommSec's iPhone index shows.