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Category: Personal finance

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Emergency finance

Your financial wellbeing is intricately linked to your personal health. Our finances can rapidly spiral out of control without warning and in turn our ...
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Apply principles of business management to personal finance – Prioritise, assess, restrain

  Appy the 3 principles of business management to your personal finances - prioritise, assess and restrain. Prioritise – Take a good look at ...
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Invest long term for predictable high returns

Share and bond markets go through cycles. It is exceedingly difficult to predict the bottom and tops of these cycles. The share market is ...
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Using self-control to increase wealth

Self-control is defined as the ability to regulate behavioural, emotional, and attentional impulses to achieve long-term goals. Self-control early in life is a strong ...
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Can you afford a rise in the cash rate?

With the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) keeping interest rates at historically low levels (currently  0.1 per cent) and competitive mortgage rates as low ...
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Debt servicing costs should not exceed 30 per cent of income

Debt is useful for buying assets and leveraging to increase our wealth. But how much debt is too much? For the average Australian, debt ...
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Eat your leftovers

The average grocery spend per week in Australia is $140. That equates to $6,720 per year. On average we throw away 20% of our ...
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No interest loans

No interest loans can be accessed by those who need an immediate cash boost to get their heads above water. Individuals struggling with money ...
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Surround yourself with success

Whether in your personal life, or business, you are only as good as the people around you. Choose successful friends and circulate with high ...

Have the money conversation with you partner

  If it looks like your relationship is getting serious, have the money talk as early as possible. Whilst it might not seem romantic ...