Money
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Financial advisors
Clients of financial advice need to stay alert
Investors and savers need to understand and closely monitor the investments and strategies they choose to pursue.
- by Daryl Dixon
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How thousands of financial advisers have dodged the commission ban
Think commissions are banned? Your financial adviser is taking a fat one by another name.
- by Nicole Pedersen-McKinnon
Sharing economy
More Australians boost their income through the sharing economy
With pay rises hard to come by, the sharing economy is creating new ways to make some extra income.
- by John Collett
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Banking royal commission
Coalition's poor record on financial advice protections
Had the Coalition been successful in changing financial advice protections, the revelations of the banking royal commission would have likely been worse.
- by John Collett
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Ask Noel: timing a sale to take advantage of new downsizing rule
Personal finance expert Noel Whittaker answers your questions.
- by Noel Whittaker
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How to survive on a half a pension
Personal finance expert George Cochrane answers your questions.
- by George Cochrane
Population
'I feel like a different person': moving from the city to the regions
There is a trend to move out of the big cities, should you join in?
- by John Collett & Caitlin Fitzsimmons
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Aussies lose $6m in nearly 1000 romance scams so far this year
Personal finance expert Nicole Pedersen-McKinnon answers your questions.
- by Nicole Pedersen-McKinnon
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Money psychology
Something for nothing: our bias to 'free' is costing us money
It pays to look beyond the seductive power of free and make a conscious calculation of value.
- by Catherine Robson
Family finance
Steel reinforcing to protect consumers will follow royal commission
With the revelations at the banking royal commission, experts say something's going to have to give in the financial planning industry.
- by John Collett
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Banking royal commission
One move that would go a long way to fixing financial advice
Licensing planners through their employers has been a disaster. They should be individually licensed like doctors and lawyers.
- by John Collett