Paying those extra couple of cents when tapping your card will be a thing of the past from Thursday thanks to a major change to the card system. Here’s the perk the banks are gutting.
Ryan Johnson
Hike to fuel investor change : economist
KIM MACDONALD
Homeowners will bear the brunt of the Reserve Bank’s fight against inflation as it hits mortgage holders with a fourth rate hike this year.
Stephen Johnson
Australian households have been hit with a fourth interest rate hike, adding further pressure to budgets already buckling under the strain of sky-high fuel prices.
Daniel Newell
The RBA is at pains to say each time the cash rate is increased to fight inflation that rising costs hurt everyone. What’s not acknowledged is that the pain isn’t proportional. And households aren’t to blame.
Before many women inherit wealth, they spend years helping ageing parents navigate the challenges of later life. They become advocates, organisers, co-ordinators and caregivers.
Sandra Kent
There’s a massive shake-up coming for those with self-managed super funds, which now make up a quarter of Australia’s $4.7 trillion savings pot. Here’s everything you need to know ...
Nick Bruining
Worried the age pension won’t exist by the time you retire? There’s reasons to be confident it will, but two big threats still hang over the safety net for millions of Australians in the generations to come.
DEBTMAN: For almost all of our lives, we’re taught to accumulate. Then one day we’re expected to start spending the very money we’ve spent decades trying not to spend. That’s harder than most people realise.
Bruce Brammall
Q+A: There’s a few tricks and traps when it comes to tipping proceeds from the sale of your home into superannuation. Here’s the hacks you need to know to super-size your savings.
The battle for customer loyalty is heating up, with the Reserve Bank’s looming shake-up on card payment surcharges tipped to push consumers towards retail memberships for their ‘freebie fix’, experts say.
Cheyanne Enciso
WA’s biggest health fund expects more than 17,000 older members nationwide to cancel or downgrade their cover under Labor’s planned rebate cut, its boss told a Senate hearing in Perth on Wednesday.
Three-quarters of Australians are willing to cut back on their discretionary spending to afford a home, new data reveals, but there is a catch.
Lucinda Garbutt-Young
One-third of employees in one of Australia’s biggest workforces are being targeted by “super spruikers”, as the political firestorm over superannuation deepens.
Nathan Schmidt
While being a homeowner is a distinct advantage for those entering retirement, those non-homeowners fortunate to have some money stashed away don’t come off too badly.
Someone told you you’ll need more than $1m to live comfortably in retirement? Thanks to our generous pension system, that is not even remotely close to what you’ll really need. Here’s why ...
A single renter needs $340,000 in savings to retire modestly, more than three times a homeowner, as Perth rents hit $700 a week and super gets dragged deeper into the housing fight.
Q+A: Can you get an automatic tax refund for your franking credits if you’re retired? Yes, but you’ll need to clear these hurdles first ...
WA has been revealed as a hub for tax dodgers, accounting for more than a quarter of Australian Tax Office prosecutions resulting from a major crackdown on the ‘shadow economy.’
Rhianna Mitchell
Perth motorists are staring down the barrel of $3 a litre for petrol at the same time hard-up consumers face another interest rate hike later this month.
Cheyanne Enciso and Caleb Runciman
A modest retirement is now rising almost 6 per cent a year, outpacing inflation, while renters need thousands more than homeowners and fuel costs have climbed again.
One in five supermarket shoppers say they are eating less fresh fruit and vegetables to save money, as rising household costs change what Australians put in their shopping trolleys.
A new report has shed light on how the various generations expect to live in retirement, with only a small percentage of millennials convinced they’ll own their own home as they head into their golden years.
Getting close to retirement and still paying off the mortgage? This hack allows you to use some of you super to help clear the debt while also making sure you can top up your nest egg.
