Category: Dollars & Sense
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Ask the Knowledgeable: What makes a cushty retirement? It’s sophisticated
Query 1 When numerous writers and on-line calculators write about and cite financial savings wanted to comfortably retire on, they assume a sure degree of development from that asset. With various ranges of threat aversion this is able to be completely different and exhausting to decipher. Would you be capable of give an estimate of…
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Michael Pascoe: Lazy or loyal? Name it what you’ll, it’s nonetheless costly
I believe I conceived the time period “lazy tax”. If not, I used to be there at its delivery – the additional billions shoppers pay because the penalty for not purchasing round on the subject of mortgages, power, insurance coverage and anything they need to pay. Some folks discovered the time period insulting, thus “loyalty…
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Money might be nearly gone in Australia in a decade – however like cheques, who’ll miss it?
Late final yr, the Reserve Financial institution gave 1000 Australians diaries and requested them to file each fee they remodeled the course of per week. Of the 13,000 funds, solely 17 had been with cheques. It has been an astounding collapse. Again in 1980 in the beginning of the bank card period, 85 per cent of…
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Michael Pascoe: Learn how to ethically minimise revenue tax
June – the winter solstice, the naked London airplane timber in our avenue briefly not dropping stuff of 1 kind or one other, the (optimistic) begin of the ski season – and the barrage of EOFY (finish of monetary yr) ads encouraging folks to purchase a brand new laptop/ute/desk/forklift earlier than June 30 to assert…