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1 week ago | 
moneymag.com.au | Tom Watson
Australians are expected to spend up a storm chasing discounts on technology, clothes and cars during the end of financial year (EOFY) sales this year, with Roy Morgan anticipating that total spending will exceed $10 billion. What many Aussies might not appreciate is that the EOFY sales could also prove to be a relatively fruitful time to find a discounted mobile or home internet plan.
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1 week ago | 
moneymag.com.au | Tom Watson |Sarah Forman
From finding unclaimed money to benefiting from financial advice, there's plenty of upside to taking a curious approach to super. On this episode of the Friends With Money podcast, Money's Tom Watson is joined by Sarah Forman, chief retirement officer at Team Super, to discuss the benefits of taking an active interest in super (and how to get started).
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2 weeks ago | 
moneymag.com.au | Tom Watson
Flexible work arrangements. Free meals. Social activities. Dogs in the office. There's no shortage of non-salary benefits that some Australian companies offer in an effort to retain talent. Another is employee share schemes. "The benefit of employee share schemes is that they enable employees and key management people to take an ownership stake in the business," says Craig Butler, a private wealth adviser at Shadforth Financial Group.
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3 weeks ago | 
moneymag.com.au | Tom Watson |Mark Chapman
The 2024-25 financial year is almost over, which means tax time is just around the corner. So what can taxpayers do to prepare? On this episode of the Friends With Money podcast, Money's Tom Watson is joined by Mark Chapman, director of tax communications at H&R Block, to discuss key tax dates, contributions, deductions, documents and more.
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3 weeks ago | 
moneymag.com.au | Tom Watson
More than 2.6 million workers will receive a pay rise above inflation in the following months as a result of an announcement by the Fair Work Commission (FWC) this morning. As part of its 2025 Annual Wage Review, the FWC revealed that the National Minimum Wage, as well as minimum wage rates related to many modern awards, will rise by 3.5% on July 1.
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1 month 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.
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1 month 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.
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1 month 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.
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1 month 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.
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2 months 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.
