| Date | Title | Description |
| 19.08.2024 | 20 scam sites a day: ASIC counts 7,300 takedowns, urges Australians to watch out for dodgy offers | Source: Adobe Stock article-article-body
Australia’s investments watchdog says it has struck down 20 phishing and investment scam websites every day for the past year, showing the continued prevalence of dodgy operators in the local market.... |
| 14.06.2024 | NovatechFX : Victims Recover Lost Funds With Intelligence Commissioner’s NovaTech FX Fund Recovery Program | LOGO
moneysmart.gov.au warning on NovatechFX
Attorney General James Sues Cryptocurrency Companies NovaTechFx and AWS Mining for Defrauding Investors of More Than $1 Billion
dfpi.ca.gov Nova Tech Ltd Warning
Victims of NovatechFX fraud succe... |
| 28.11.2023 | 13 Best ICOs to Invest in 2023 | ICOs are the best way to invest in brand-new cryptocurrencies before they explode. Ethereum, Filecoin, Chainlink, and many other billion-dollar cryptocurrencies raised funds via ICO campaigns, so this niche can be very lucrative.
This guide... |
| 10.11.2023 | ASIC squashes 2,500 scam websites with new take-down powers | Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Financial Services Stephen Jones. Source: AAP Image/Mick Tsikas article-article-body
Australia’s corporate regulator has put new website take-down powers to use in recent months, ‘knocking out’ more than... |
| 27.03.2023 | Financial literacy: Here are seven signs you’re on the right track | But even in the best of times, managing your finances is hard.
Image by pexels
With the cost of living and interest rates rising, a growing number of Australians are struggling to manage their finances. Many are experiencing real financial ... |
| 09.05.2022 | Thinking of taking ‘finfluencer’ advice? You might want to think again | We’ve long been taught that “if it seems too good to be true, it usually is”. So why are so many people getting caught out by taking advice on money matters from people who aren’t qualified to give it?
Financial regulator ASIC has — finally... |
| 09.11.2021 | APRA urges super members to prioritise their own best financial interests | The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) is urging superannuation members - especially those whose MySuper products failed the recent performance test - to more actively engage with their super to maximise their retirement futu... |
| 18.06.2021 | Beware of ATO scams: they are everywhere this year! | The end of the financial year is near. So all of us — especially those scrambling at the last minute to get their receipts in order — should keep an eye out for the accompanying onslaught of tax scams.
Posing as the Australian Taxation Offi... |
| 09.06.2021 | Australia and New Zealand Banking : ANZ Capital Notes 6 Lodgement of Replacement Prospectus | News Release
For release: 9 June 2021
ANZ allocates $1.2 billion under ANZ Capital Notes 6 Bookbuild; lodges replacement prospectus
Margin set at 3% p.a; ANZ Securityholder Offer and Reinvestment Offer open today
ANZ today announced that fo... |
| 09.06.2021 | AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND BANKING GROUP LIMITED
Australia and New Zealand Banking : ANZ Capital Notes 6 Lodgement of Replacement Prospectus | News Release
For release: 9 June 2021
ANZ allocates $1.2 billion under ANZ Capital Notes 6 Bookbuild; lodges replacement prospectus
Margin set at 3% p.a; ANZ Securityholder Offer and Reinvestment Offer open today
ANZ today announced that fo... |
| 11.05.2021 | Superannuation guarantee: $450 monthly threshold scrapped in 2021 budget | Treasurer Josh Frydenberg speaks to the media as he arrives to Parliament House in Canberra. Source: AAP Image/Mick Tsikas.
Employers will need to make superannuation guarantee payments for more employees from next year, with the federal go... |
| 06.04.2021 | 4 Reasons To Consider Fixed Income Investments | April 6, 2021 4 min read This story originally appeared on ValueWalk
Fixed income investments are many investors’ bread and butter. More secure and stable than buying stocks (also known as “equity”), making a fixed income investment means b... |
| 05.12.2020 | Home loan borrowers missing out on significant savings by not switching | 5 December 2020
Many Australians with older home loans continue to pay significantly higher interest rates than borrowers with newer home loans, potentially costing them many thousands of dollars over time, the ACCC has found in a report pu... |
| 18.11.2020 | Should you bother to invest with $5,000 or less? 3 important questions to ask yourself | Image: iStock/kokkai
This article is sponsored by eToro.
With interest rates at record lows, money sitting idly in a bank account probably won’t go very far. While not everyone is keen on the idea of investing hard-earned savings, it could ... |
| 07.10.2019 | A long-term game: What a bad credit score could mean for your business, and how to fix it | Business consultant Amy Chen. Source: supplied.
If you’ve ever applied for any kind of loan or credit card, chances are you’ve had a credit check done on you. But what does this actually mean, and how does it affect the loan you get?
Applyi... |
| 31.05.2019 | Growing your wealth: The pros and cons of buying commercial property through your SMSF | Pure Property Investment founder Paul Glossop. Source: Supplied.
Once you’ve decided setting up a self-managed super fund (SMSF) is the right decision for your future, it’s important to understand the steps involved in getting your SMSF est... |
| 27.03.2018 | Young Australians facing a bleak financial future due to superannuation rorts and failing to find a good deal | News.com.au
by Beneidct Brook
27 Mar, 2018
AUSTRALIANS are facing a “bleak” future with billions missing from our super accounts due to rorts - and our own mistakes.
YOUNG Australians are woefully unprepared for retirement, slugged fees tha... |
| 16.03.2018 | The Financial Services Royal Commission highlights the vulnerability of many older Australians | By Eileen Webb, Curtin University
One worrying takeaway from the first week of the Financial Services Royal Commission is how many elderly people are being adversely affected by irresponsible lending.
Such lending is often the result of an ... |
| 04.08.2017 | Robo-advice is growing but many people still don’t trust financial advice from robots | By Andrew Reeson and Andreas Duenser, CSIRO
People are open to receiving financial advice from robots, our studies show, but there might be a way to go to in convincing people to trust them over a human.
We surveyed 138 people about their a... |
| 02.07.2017 | Who Trades Forex? | This might seem a very simple question with an equally straightforward answer – the people who trade Forex are Forex traders.
End of discussion. But in fact currency exchange or trade is such a widespread activity carried out, consciously o... |
| 22.05.2017 | Funeral industry lacks competition and regulation: Study | By Sandra van der Laan, University of Sydney and Lee Moerman, University of Wollongong
Consumers are often unnecessarily upsold on funerals due to a lack of information and real competition, in an industry that is fairly unregulated, new re... |
| 01.11.2016 | ASIC bans financial adviser for life for using millions of client funds for cosmetic surgery and to pay off the Wolf of Wall Street | The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has banned a New South Wales-based financial adviser from providing financial services for life and found he is “not of good fame or character”, after he used more than $1.8 million of cl... |
| 01.07.2016 | Black market jobs cost Australia billions and youth are at the coalface | By Shirley Jackson, University of Melbourne
Young people, job creation and taxation have all been at the centre of the federal election campaign; yet almost nothing has been said about one of the sleeper issues these have in common – the ca... |
| 01.04.2016 | Four reasons payday lending will still flourish despite Nimble’s $1.5m penalty | By Kristy Muir, UNSW Australia; Fanny Salignac, UNSW Australia, and Rebecca Reeve, UNSW Australia
The payday lending sector is under scrutiny again after the Australian Securities and Investment Commission’s investigation into Nimble.
After... |
| 31.03.2016 | The non-bank lending sector needs to be regulated – and marketplace lenders should lead the way | By Neil Slonim
Having been spurned by banks, many small business owners are finding a funding lifeline with non-bank lenders. Specialist asset financiers, debtor financiers, factoring companies as well as an ever increasing number of market... |
| 08.03.2015 | 11 tips to protect yourself from real estate scams | Real estate investment seminars are in the spotlight again with the competition watchdog instituting proceedings against property training company We Buy Houses and best-selling author Rick Otton.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Com... |
| 30.03.2014 | Retirement prospects not-so-super for many Australians | Only 53% of couples and 22% of single people are on track to achieve a comfortable level of retirement income, according to an in-depth study of the adequacy of retirement savings.
The outcome of a collaboration between researchers at the U... |
| - | In unique testimony, binary options kingpin slams ‘stupid’ US law enforcement
State of Jerusalem: The ‘Secular’ Struggle | In his first-ever court testimony regarding his binary options operations, industry kingpin Pini Peter railed against American law enforcement, the media and even his Israeli competitors for allegedly conspiring to paint him as a criminal.
... |
