Shares? Super? Property? What to do with your money in the early years

Shares? Super? Property? What to do with your money in the early years

There are different ways to use your first wages,but finding a good financial adviser as early as possible in your career is a good start for your nest egg.

  • byNoel Whittaker

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How to choose the right financial adviser
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Opinion

How to choose the right financial adviser

Working with a financial adviser is a partnership and asking these questions of prospective advisers can help you decide if you can work with them and trust them with your money.

  • byBrendan Tully
Clock ticks for planners yet to pass compulsory test
Opinion
Opinion

Clock ticks for planners yet to pass compulsory test

Financial advisers who have failed a compulsory knowledge test twice by the end of this year have been given until next October to pass. However,is that in consumers’ best interests?

  • byJohn Collett
‘Toxic breach of trust’:Investments watchdog sends fraud warning

‘Toxic breach of trust’:Investments watchdog sends fraud warning

Following a string of investment embezzlement cases,the Australian Securities and Investments Commission says some financial advisers pose a serious risk.

  • byFergus Hunter
Why I’ve decided to buy shares and how I intend to do it
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Shares

Why I’ve decided to buy shares and how I intend to do it

The Australian Securities Exchange says about 900,000 Aussies can be labelled as “intending investors” who plan to start investing in the next 12 months.

  • byJessica Irvine
The search for meaning doesn’t lead to wealth and happiness
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Opinion

The search for meaning doesn’t lead to wealth and happiness

Economics is the study of production and consumption,getting and spending. But as someone connected with Easter once said,there’s more to life than bread alone.

  • byRoss Gittins
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Power and confidence lies in the numbers (maths,that is)

Power and confidence lies in the numbers (maths,that is)

National Mental Health Commissioner Lucy Brogden didn’t pass a single maths exam until she sat the HSC. It was only years later that she discovered the power and beauty of maths.

  • byJulie Power
The real benefits of good financial advice revealed
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Opinion

The real benefits of good financial advice revealed

Those who obtain professional financial advice can accumulate three times more assets after 15 years than those who make their own decisions.

  • byRobin Bowerman
Being single need not mean a life of financial struggle
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Opinion

Being single need not mean a life of financial struggle

Meeting household bills can be tough when only you are paying,so you need a financial plan.

  • byPaul Benson
Improved financial advice finally on the way
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Improved financial advice finally on the way

A raft of new standards for financial advice,enshrined in law,will improve the professionalism of the industry.

  • byJohn Collett
Four financial lessons COVID-19 crisis has taught us

Four financial lessons COVID-19 crisis has taught us

The pandemic has confirmed that having a rainy day fund for when your hours get cut,you are sick or you cannot go to work is essential.

  • byOlivia Maragna