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1 week ago | investsmart.com.au | Effie Zahos

What an extraordinary business politics can be. One day you're a leader, the next you're looking for a new job. Talk about tough! For the rest of us, voting is done and dusted, and it's time to get on with life. But it may not be "business as usual". Here are five big changes we can expect based on Labor's promises. From 1 June, the newly re-elected Albanese government will cut 20% off all student debts, a move set to wipe around $5,520 from the average HECS debt.

3 weeks ago | investsmart.com.au | Paul Clitheroe

Investing insights from experts like Paul Clitheroe & Effie Zahos and more Investing insights from experts To state the obvious, we've just seen a crazy month on investment markets. The recent ups and downs on share markets globally are enough to bring on motion sickness, and it's all being driven by gyrations around tariffs coming out of the US. Sure, US President Trump made it clear that tariffs were on the agenda while he was on the campaign trail last year.

1 month ago | investsmart.com.au | Effie Zahos

Investing insights from experts like Paul Clitheroe & Effie Zahos and more Investing insights from experts Getting older has its pluses. Sure, by our 50s and beyond, the days of notching up a personal best in a marathon are likely behind us. But the good news is that we are often approaching peak wealth.   Research by KPMG found baby boomers enjoy average net wealth of $2.31 million per household - significantly higher than either Gen X ($1.88 million) or Millennials ($757,000).

1 month ago | investsmart.com.au | Paul Clitheroe

Not-so-fun fact: The French word for death is 'la mort' - and from this, we get 'mortgage', which quite literally translates to a 'debt until we die'. Happily, most of us can be confident of outliving our home loan. But just as we are living longer, our home loans are also stretching out. Not so long ago, the standard loan term was 25 years. Increasingly, it has become 30 years. Now it looks as though that timeframe could extend even further.

1 month ago | investsmart.com.au | Ravi Sharma

I was first introduced to Monopoly when I was about four years old. The game started with everyone happy; by the end, even at that young age I knew some family members weren't going to be speaking to each other for the next few days. I feel like everyone has a similar story about playing Monopoly. However, the core learnings from the game are significant. In fact, these same learnings formed part of the reason I gravitated towards real estate so early in life.