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Personal Finance Articles
How to avoid underinsuring your home
With Australia currently enduring its worst bushfire season on record, we all want to do our little bit to help out,...
Got a spare pineapple? Pay off your mortgage faster
Reckon you could scrounge together an extra $50 each week to pay off your mortgage? If so, latest modelling shows the...
5 Common Credit Card Traps
Credit card providers love to use all kinds of incentives to get you to put that shiny piece of plastic into your...
What is debt recycling?
We all know that recycling is great for the environment. But debt recycling? Well, if done right, that could be great...
It’s all about balance: Using an offset account to your advantage
Want to avoid sinking your entire savings balance into your mortgage? An offset account could be the solution you’ve...
Rentvesting: have your cake and eat it too
Most Australians grow up with the dream of buying and living in their own home. But, given the difficulty of cracking...
How to move house like a boss
Back-breaking furniture, perilously narrow staircases and chipped crockery – the idea of moving house strikes fear...
Avoid underinsurance in your home
Four out of five Australian homeowners are underinsured, but most don’t realise it until they need to make a claim. We...
The risks associated with payday loans
We’ve all seen the movies where the luckless protagonist borrows money from a remorseless loanshark and is warned that...
Mortgage stress: What it is, and how to avoid it
You might be comfortable paying off your mortgage now, but what if things change? Here are some tips on how to avoid a...
The truth about 0% car finance offers
Seen an offer along the lines of: ‘Drive away, 0% finance to pay’? Well, like most things in life, when it sounds too...