With interest rates at an historical low, now could be the time to make the most of your disposable income and pay off your mortgage sooner with an offset savings account.
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If buying or selling for the first time, you might be bamboozled by all the real estate jargon bandied about. Here is our A-Z guide to what it all means.
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The RBA has opted to leave the official cash rate on hold at 1.5%. With celebrations for the race that stops a nation in full swing, I'd like to share today’s rate announcement and the thoughts on why the Reserve Bank of Australia has made this decision. The RBA has…
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Now that the weekend's grand final sporting festivities have come to a close, I'd like to draw your attention to today's rate announcement and the thoughts on why the Reserve Bank of Australia has made this decision. In making this call, the RBA has resisted temptation to further lower rates,…
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The month of August saw a flurry of activity from banks, with differing levels of rate cuts in response to the RBA's decision to lower the official cash rate. This led to the media and consumers asking why the rate cut was not passed on in full with the response…
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Delight the Star Wars tragic in your galaxy with toast from the Death Star toaster. If the iconic Death Star casing isn’t geek bait enough, the fact that the toast is branded with an image of a TIE Fighter is a guaranteed deal clincher. Still in production, you can preorder…
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With much debate in this election year about whether to scrap negative gearing to boost the federal budget, we thought it timely to look at the tax implications of property ownership in Australia.
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This result was widely predicted with many experts tipping the RBA would lower the rate to provide some stimulus for the economy following last week's disappointing CPI numbers. Amidst the dramatic U.S. election campaigns of Clinton vs Trump, a turbulent market in the EU following Brexit and the Turnbull government…
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