In May 2024, my wife Jodie and I flew to a small city in the American Midwest to watch a 93 year old man answer questions for six and a half hours. The man was Warren Buffett, the city was Omaha, and the six and a half hours were the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting – […]
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Here’s something schools never taught us: how to actually manage money. We learn algebra and the periodic table, but not how to budget, invest or plan for retirement — and then we’re expected to just figure it out. That missing skill has a name: financial literacy. The good news is it’s exactly that — a
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Nobody raises this in a performance review. But an unanswered money question changes the decisions you make at work, and it does it to employees and business owners alike. A look at how the pattern shows up, what it costs over a couple of years, and why it is not a discipline problem.
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Most advice on how to save money makes you feel guilty about your morning coffee. This isn’t that. Saving money isn’t about punishing yourself — it’s about widening the gap between what you earn and what you spend, so you’ve got something left over to build wealth with. Do that, and the coffee can stay.
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Both options feel responsible, so most people do a bit of both without deciding, or neither at all. This post gives you the 4 questions that settle it, worked through on a real example under the new capital gains indexation rules.
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Plenty of people set something up for the new financial year a month ago. Setting it up was never the hard part – the second look is, and most plans quietly stop there. Here is how to manage your money each month in about 30 minutes, and what a small unnoticed drift actually costs over a year.
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Most people have one layer of protection, not three. A buffer that runs out, cover set up for the life they had five years ago, and a debt plan that never quite got written. Here is how the three layers actually work together, and the one hour of measuring that tells you where you stand.
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A couple I spoke with recently had $700,000 sitting in cash. For four years. They weren’t confused and they weren’t avoiding it, they were waiting for things to settle down. Waiting feels like the safe response to uncertainty, but it isn’t a pause. It’s a position, and it bills you quietly in a currency nobody reports on.
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Somewhere in Sydney right now, there’s a couple at the kitchen table with a glass of wine and a knot in their stomach. They did everything they were told. Bought the investment property. Took on the debt. Held through the rough patches because someone, somewhere, promised them this was how Australians build wealth. Then the
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There’s a version of success that looks impressive from the outside and feels fragile from the inside. The business is growing. The salary is strong. The career is on track. And yet, when you actually sit down and look at your personal finances, the picture doesn’t match. No real structure. No clear plan. A vague
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