It’s a well-known fact that females are underrepresented in the world of tech. But when you build your career in the industry, and feel the buzz of solving issues for others, the value of diverse thinking makes itself known every day.
With its still-growing momentum, the financial web has proven itself as a game-changing force – giving small businesses real-time access to more accurate business insights and a broad range of financial services. Just as importantly, people have shifted their expectations.
Just when those saving for retirement thought the rules couldn’t get any more complex, the Turnbull Government has revised some of the key elements of the controversial superannuation reforms it announced in the May 2016 Federal Budget.
These days, spending a lot of money on things is considered unremarkable at worst. It’s a sign that we’re becoming comfortable with a certain level of buying that our grandparents would have considered absurd.
Whether we are at work, at home, or out with friends, we tend to be more interested in what we are saying or want to say next, than in hearing what others have to say to us.
Baby boomers have always been catalysts for social change and now they are doing it again. Divorce after 50 – or grey divorce as it’s become known – is on the rise. At a time when the kids have left home and retirement is on the horizon, more couples are deciding to go their separate ways.
While it might not be the most exciting day you will ever spend — unless the thought of saving a significant amount of money excites you, it will be worth your while.
$2.2 trillion. That’s how much Australian households owe right now, according to the latest ABS stats.i Household liabilities grew by $1.2 billion in the last quarter alone. Real household debt per person has risen steadily by around 2 per cent per year, and now sits at around $79,000 per person.
It’s often said that it is better to give with a warm heart, but divesting assets while you are alive may not be the best way to pass on your accumulated wealth to your nearest and dearest.