Under a normal lease, you enter an agreement with a leasing company. A novated lease includes another party in the agreement – your employer.
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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.
Getting good advice can pay for itself many times over. But how do you find it? And what questions should you ask before signing up with a financial adviser?
Activist short selling is certainly controversial. But it’s not necessarily illegal nor unethical.
People often (wrongly) believe income protection insurance would be paid out if the person was unable to work due to losing their job for any reason.
Cryptocurrency exchanges like FTX aren’t safe. Here’s what every crypto investor needs to know.
Some commentary suggests a causal relationship between hiking interest rates and unemployment increasing. It’s not quite that simple, but the days of record high employment are probably numbered.
Unemployed Australians who accessed their super during COVID stayed on benefits seven weeks longer than similarly-placed recipients who did not.
Banks typically do not want their customers to default on property and have processes in place to help reduce the risk of this happening.
The sneaky strategy of reducing pack sizes shows the strength of consumers’ cognitive bias towards focusing on price, no matter what.
Beware any advice to go either fixed or variable. You are unlikely to outsmart the bank.
Is it really a side hustle if you end up losing money? We surveyed 287 current and former MLM consultants in Australia. The findings paint a bleak picture.
We measured financial literacy among 589 informal carers that substantially helped an older person make a decision about paying for residential aged care. Less than half were financially literate.
The craze among celebrities for Bored Ape NFTs suggests speculation has become completely detached from any idea of fundamental value.
It’s easy to be swayed by the grand promises of AI. But new technology is not the solution to everything. Do your sums first.
Investors play an important role in pushing firms toward becoming better corporate citizens. So, what do investors need to know about corporate social responsibility?
Depending on circumstances, it may be time to re-think the bias to paying down housing debt over wealth accumulation in super. At least to do the sums, so you can make an informed choice.
As a young investor, the founder of modern macroeconomics John Maynard Keynes might well have bought Bitcoin. The older Keynes would not have. It’s instructive to examine why.
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Senior Lecturer, Canberra School of Politics, Economics and Society, University of Canberra
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Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Professor, Curtin Law School and Curtin Business School, Curtin University
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Lecturer in Financial Planning, James Cook University
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Associate Professor of Finance, UNSW Sydney
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The University of Queensland
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Emeritus Professor of Finance, The University of Melbourne
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Professor, Queensland University of Technology
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Lecturer Banking and Finance, Faculty of Business and Law, University of Wollongong
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Research fellow, Tax and Transfer Policy Institute, Australian National University
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Professor of Economics, University of Waikato
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Senior Lecturer in Finance, University of Sydney
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Professor and Director, Macquarie University Centre for the Health Economy, Macquarie University
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Lecturer, Department of Accounting, Finance and Economics, Griffith University
