Tom Watson

1 week ago | moneymag.com.au | Tom Watson

The student loan balances held by roughly three million Australians will rise by 3.2% on Sunday as the latest round of indexation takes effect. Each year on June 1 indexation is applied by the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) to outstanding student loans, including the likes of HECS-HELP debt and other schemes.

2 weeks ago | moneymag.com.au | Tom Watson

Basketballers, American footballers and soccer players have dominated the top 50 list of the world's highest-paid athletes over the past year, according to the latest analysis by Forbes. Released last week, Forbes' 2025 World's Highest-Paid Athletes List reveals that the 50 top-earning sportspeople raked in an estimated US$4.23 billion (roughly A$6.6 billion) in the 12 months to the start of May. That's a $400 million increase on the combined figure of $3.88 billion recorded the year before.

2 weeks ago | moneymag.com.au | Tom Watson

In spite of ongoing volatility in financial markets, returns from superannuation funds generally edged higher over the course of April - clawing back some of the losses suffered in the previous month. New research from Chant West reveals that typical diversified super funds across all risk profiles ended April above water, with the median growth option (in which 61% to 80% of funds are allocated towards growth assets) up 0.6% over the month.

3 weeks ago | moneymag.com.au | Tom Watson

Ali and Gaby Rosenberg know just how special bonds can be. After all, as co-founders of the fixed-income investment platform Blossom, they are literally in the business of bonds. The two also share a bond that most people don't. The twin thingThey're sisters and they're also both twins - though not with each other. Ali, who is the oldest of the four Rosenberg siblings, has a twin sister. As does Gaby, who is the youngest of the four sisters.

1 month ago | moneymag.com.au | Graham Cooke |Tom Watson |Jeremy Lack |Nicola Field

In our modern, digitalised world, logins and passwords make it convenient to manage your affairs online from anywhere in the world. But it's a different story when something goes wrong. And for one Australian family, a tragedy demonstrated just how complicated our digital world can be.