The latest market breakthrough follows the S&P 500 topping 5,000 in February. But are these markers purely psychological?
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Exchange-traded funds allow you to spread your risk across many different regions and markets (such as shares, bonds, property and companies). You aren’t putting all your eggs in one basket.
Feel like you’re drowning in debt? Owing money can sometimes be challenging, but not all debts should keep you awake at night.
However you structure pocket money in your family, it is important to consider it an opportunity to learn about finances.
Being financially resilient means you aren’t left financially devastated when an expensive emergency creeps up on you.
Only a small fraction of women have received any financial education at all.
Many people answer questions about the economy and benefits incorrectly.
Most Ghanaian footballers have poor levels of financial literacy and financial behaviour.
The way banks calculate interest means that Australian borrowers who sign up to pay 5.95% per annum pay something closer to 6.11%.
Far from the idea of “trickle-down economics”, a map illustrates how the waterworks of the financial system are parching certain sections of the real economy and producing vast inequality.
It’s not easy talking to kids about the cost-of-living crunch. Many fear landing their kids with a lifelong ‘scarcity mindset’, where a person is cursed with a feeling spending money is always wrong.
Barely 2% of Australians or Americans use Bitcoin for its intended purpose: to buy things. Should we even call it a cryptocurrency?
A new study by the Retirement Commission has identified the different personality characteristics that influence how we manage our money – you can test your own with their online quiz.
Superannuation funds keep merging, on the basis that bigger is better for members. But our research suggests this isn’t necessarily true.
It can be argued universities also have a moral obligation to educate students about how course fees are charged and then repaid when they start working.
Under a normal lease, you enter an agreement with a leasing company. A novated lease includes another party in the agreement – your employer.
A viral TikTok video claims to reveal a banking hack so you’ll “pay a big fat zero in interest”. Sadly, it’s not true. But extra payments now can save you thousands, as a finance expert explains.
If you’re considering putting more money into your super, and want to know more about how the whole system works, here are the basics.
Even in the best of times, managing your finances is hard. We’re told to make sure we are financially literate but what does that mean in practice? Here are seven signs you’ve got the basics.
Trauma insurance provides a benefit for life-threatening medical conditions that seriously compromise the insured person’s current and future quality of life.
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Assistant Professor in Finance and Financial Planning, University of Canberra
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Lecturer in Financial Planning, James Cook University
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Senior Lecturer, The University of Queensland
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Senior Lecturer, Canberra School of Politics, Economics and Society, University of Canberra
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Lecturer in Primary Mathematics Education, Deakin University
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Associate Professor of Finance, RMIT University
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Associate Professor, Mathematics Education, Western Sydney University
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Professorial Fellow and Co-Director, HILDA Survey, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, The University of Melbourne
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Lecturer in Behavioural Finance, Griffith University
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Professor, Curtin Law School and Curtin Business School, Curtin University
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Professor of Economics and Director, Tax and Transfer Policy Institute, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Lecturer, Finance, The University of Western Australia
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Lecturer, Department of Accounting, Finance and Economics, Griffith University
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Professor of Economics and National Senior Teaching Fellow, Griffith University
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Associate Professor in the Department of Finance and co-director of the Brain, Mind & Markets Laboratory, The University of Melbourne
