by admin | Apr 3, 2023 | Active, Budgeting, Business Planning, Debt, Economics, Federal Budget, Housing, Interest Rates, Investing, RBA, Retirement, Superannuation, Tax
In the haste to get to the next bull leg, financial markets sometimes can ignore the obvious. As central banks near the end of their respective policy tightening, the focus has already turned to the start of the next easing. Investors and their advisers can...
by admin | Feb 27, 2023 | Budgeting, Business Planning, Debt, Economics, Federal Budget, Index, Insurance, Interest Rates, Investing, RBA, Retirement, Superannuation, Tax
What feels like a lifetime ago, Lowe stopped buying bonds in November 2021, however continued to state “I want to make it clear that this decision does not reflect a view that the cash rate will be increased before 2024.” But we are now nine (9) rate...
by admin | Jan 25, 2023 | Debt, Economics, Federal Budget, Interest Rates, Investing, Superannuation
All our times have comeHere but now they’re goneSeasons don’t fear the recessionNor do the wind, the sun or the rainWe can be like they are Blue Oyster Cult, (Don’t Fear) The Reaper When the media starts reporting higher interest rates and spiralling...
by admin | Dec 29, 2022 | Budgeting, Business Planning, Economics, Federal Budget, Index, Interest Rates, Investing, RBA
Australian Cash and Fixed Interest Short term rates have risen further with another 0.25% rise in December. We have seen the 90 Bank bill rate now hit 3.1% up from virtually zero at the start of the year. 10 Year yields have slipped a little bit but still currently at...
by admin | Oct 27, 2022 | Aged Care, Budgeting, Child Care, Economics, Family, Federal Budget, First Home, Health Care, Housing, RBA, Tax
A sudden uptick in the unemployment rate and slower economic growth combined with continued strong inflationary pressures are set to test the Australian economy during the next two years, according to the Federal Government’s 2022 October Budget. While record...
by admin | Oct 6, 2022 | Economics, Family, Federal Budget, Health Care, Investing, Lifestyle, Retirement, Superannuation, Tax
From psychedelic drugs and the birth of rock and roll in the sixties to the sexual revolution and female equality of the seventies through to the rapid up take of personal computers in the eighties, Australian ‘baby boomers’ have always caused waves. Now as they move...
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