Lucy Dean

Sydney

Wealth and Personal Finance Reporter at Australian Financial Review

Wealth & personal finance reporter at the Australian Financial Review. Views my own. She/her.

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Articles

5 strategies to deal with Labor’s $3m super tax increase

6 days ago | afr.com | Michelle Bowes |Andrew Hobbs |Lucy Dean

Michelle Bowes, Andrew Hobbs and Lucy DeanMay 9, 2025 – 11.24am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? For Jamie Nemtsas, principal of Melbourne-based financial advisory Wattle Partners, the plan to lift the tax rate on the earnings of superannuation balances above $3 million to 30 per cent isn’t just creating a headache for him at work. It’s also personal. Loading...
Many Gen Zs will easily breach $3m super tax trigger: analysis

1 week ago | afr.com | Lucy Dean

May 7, 2025 – 1.49pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Today’s 22-year-old worker will accumulate more than $3 million in superannuation by the time they turn 64 even if they only ever earn an average wage, new analysis has found.
Luxury watches cheaper after COVID price peak

1 week ago | afr.com | Lucy Dean

May 7, 2025 – 5.00am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Savvy watch buyers who sat on the sidelines during the COVID-19 frenzy are returning to the secondary market to snag vintage pieces for thousands, if not tens of thousands, less than their pandemic peaks. But as the gold price surges, many of these watches may not stay as affordable for long.
Election 2025:What the Labor win means for your money

1 week ago | afr.com | Lucy Dean |Andrew Hobbs

May 6, 2025 – 5.00am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Labor promised cash for almost everyone on the way to its emphatic win on Saturday. But that, plus other big spending measures and large budget deficits, could keep interest rates higher for longer.
Seven tips for outsmarting the dirtiest trick in real estate

2 weeks ago | afr.com | Lucy Dean

May 1, 2025 – 12.48pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? On any given weekend in Australia, the hopes of thousands of home buyers are dashed when properties are sold well above the so-called “guide” price.
If you think your partner will hide money, here’s what to do

2 weeks ago | afr.com | Lucy Dean

Apr 25, 2025 – 5.00am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? How many cattle, sheep or chickens do you think you could eat in any given year? Is it 665? That’s the question a federal court judge was left to ponder when, during divorce proceedings in Sydney, a woman accused her former husband of under-reporting his net worth.
Thousands of Australian authors’ works were included in the library of pirated books that Meta used to train its AI chatbot

3 weeks ago | afr.com | Lucy Dean

Apr 23, 2025 – 4.31pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? “I don’t think I have the right to exist – not in the way that I was created.”That was ChatGPT’s response when we asked it if it had the right to exist, and, well, awkward. Loading... or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.
Understanding the rules in Spain, Portugal, Greece and the Middle East

4 weeks ago | afr.com | Lucy Dean

Apr 16, 2025 – 5.00am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Lizzy Rawdah, 35, and Dean McKillip, 37, are living their dream in El Cabañal, Valencia. They run an online bodybuilding business, and had always wanted to be able to work and travel at the same time. So last November, they sold two Australian properties and spent €500,000 ($900,000) to buy two apartments in Spain.
Where the professionals would invest $5000 right now

1 month ago | afr.com | Lucy Dean |Andrew Hobbs |Michelle Bowes

Skip to navigationSkip to contentSkip to footerHelp using this website - Accessibility statementTrading platforms experienced record volumes earlier this week as retail investors – apparently unperturbed by the turmoil – bought bruised American tech stocks, global ETFs and gold. But by Thursday the impulse to “buy the dip” had switched to “sell the rip”, according to Gemma Dale, the director of SMSF and investor behaviour at Nabtrade, which notched up recording trading volumes on Monday.
Markets just got real for these Millennial investors

1 month ago | afr.com | Lucy Dean

Apr 11, 2025 – 5.00amGift this articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? LoginAs the ASX suffered its biggest one-day fall in five years, some retail investors did something you might not expect: they leaned into the turmoil, loading up on equities as many professional fund managers sold down.