budget

5 practical tips for getting your financial foundations right

Think of your finances like your home: how its foundations are built and maintained determines its ability to stand strong for years to come

Reverse mortgage and home equity release

If you're age 60 or over, own your home and need to access money, releasing equity from your home may be an option. There is risk...

How to start a conversation about money

Why it’s so important to talk about your finances According to this research(1), one in two Australians don’t sit down regularly to look...

How much super you need

Take some of the guesswork out of planning for the future. Work out how much super you'll have when you retire, and if it will be enough...

Budgeting tips

Good ways to budget Let's look beyond the basics and focus more on what it takes to stick to your budget. Here are five tips to help you...

How to manage changing interest rates

Rising interest rates Before 2022, few of us gave much thought to rising interest rates. After all, they’d been falling steadily for 14...

How do interest rates affect your investments?

Interest rates are an important financial lever for world economies. They affect the cost of borrowing and the return on savings, and it...

Reduce your interest rate with one phone call?

With official interest rates on the move, shrewd mortgage holders may take the opportunity to call their lender to ask for a better deal....

Here's 4 financial resolutions to kick start your new year!

The dawn of a new year sees many people setting new year’s resolutions such as losing some weight or giving up smoking. Similarly, the...

Could holidays on plastic end up being just “plastic holidays”?

For the past few weeks our family has been enjoying the planning of our annual holiday (sort of). We work long hours and are busy with...