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Spending money in a cashless world
August 26, 2019
How the move to electronic payments could be making it easier to spend…and what to do about it. It’s Thursday morning and almost the end of the working week. You’re walking to the train station and you realise you’ve forgotten to top up your public transport card. No matter…a few clicks later and you’ve transferred...Read More
How to find the best business ideas
August 19, 2019
Some of the best business ideas are crazy. Others are plain boring. There aren’t any magic rules for finding the good ones. Your best shot at picking the right idea is to make sure it’s a good fit for your personality and your skills. About the idea Maybe you already have a lot of business...Read More
Prioritisation: The first key to productivity
August 12, 2019
By Flying Solo contributor Fiona Adler If you think of the truly impactful, amazing people you know, that are operating 10x above their peers, chances are they have an uncanny ability to prioritise. They might work hard, yet they are not rushing and not particularly stressed. But somehow they achieve amazing results. In fact, they...Read More
Beyond super: Our other personal investments
August 12, 2019
Given the attention on the size of Australia’s super savings, it may surprise you that personal investors in total have almost as much outside super as inside super. The latest Personal Investments Market Projections report, recently published by consultants Rice Warner, calculates that the total value of super* and non-super personal investments was $5.5 trillion...Read More
Dividends explained
August 5, 2019
If you are a shareholder of a company, you may receive payments known as dividends. These payments represent your share of the company’s profits and are your reward for investing. Dividends may be a great way to boost your income and are often considered tax effective. Find out exactly how they work and how often...Read More
The 5 Deadliest Habits to Avoid As You Get Older
July 29, 2019
Even when they’re truly detrimental to your health, certain activities can be difficult to give up. Whether it’s smoking, regularly indulging in sugary beverages, or binge drinking, there are a handful of practices that experts have linked to an early death. Before suggesting that these activities were harmful, researchers studied big groups of people over...Read More
Stress: The Health Epidemic Of The 21st Century
July 23, 2019
Do you feel like ‘stressed’ is your new normal state of being? Can you remember the last time you went to bed without a care in your mind and woke up the next morning energized and excited for the day? Our modern lives, though full of opportunity, have us anxious, stressed and exhausted, and it’s...Read More
Good investment habits versus damaging biases
July 23, 2019
In a low-interest, lower-return, more-volatile investment environment, investors have an even greater incentive to keep wealth-damaging behavioural traits or biases under control. Individual investors have no control, of course, on the emotions of other investors or the overall state of investment markets. However, you can try to keep your emotions in check when making investment...Read More
Understand estate planning
July 23, 2019
Decide how you want to be looked after if you can’t make your own decisions and how you want your assets to be distributed after you die. What is estate planning? If you’ve got people in your life who you love and want to take care of, it’s wise to build an estate plan. This...Read More
Donating and Crowd Funding
July 15, 2019
With thousands of charities competing for your donation, it's important to do some research to make sure your money is being used for the cause you want to support. It is also essential to make sure the charity is actually receiving your donation. Here are some things to think about before you donate. Choosing a...Read More