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Beginner Friendly but not Foolproof: How to Avoid the 5 Most Common ETF Mistakes

ETFs have grown in popularity in the last decade, and beginner investors are often encouraged to consider them. But beginner doesn’t mean foolproof and even investments like ETFs can go wrong when investors don’t know what they are really buying and how best to use them. It’s also worth noting that beginner doesn’t mean that ETFs can’t be part of more sophisticated strategies either.

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Sara Allen
25 June 2026

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Millennials vs Boomers on home ownership – who’s right?

You’ve heard it all before – young people saying they’re priced out of the housing market because Baby Boomers and their Gen X partners in crime own all the good property. In response, plenty of older people argue that it’s always been a slog to buy a house, often pointing to 17% mortgage rates in the early 1990s.

20 Feb 2023
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Finance, Tips, and TikTok

Unsure if TikTok is right for your digital marketing? Does it work for investment content covering retirement planning, ETFs, mortgages, government schemes, home insurance and hedge funds? Because TikTok is now more than just fitness, entertainment, and cat videos.

6 Feb 2023
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Private credit fund Management Fees – more than meets the eye

Wholesale private credit products offer investors access to unique and attractive investment opportunities not usually available to the retail investor market. Because wholesale products don’t provide investors with the same consumer protection as retail funds, it’s important to review the offer document in full and seek advice if required.

27 Jan 2023
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The Mortgage Minefield

Last May, the Reserve Bank shattered the optimistic view held by some that interest rates would stay low forever (or at least a few more years). The bank has raised the official cash rate eight times in eight months, and lenders have been quick to follow with mortgage rate rises of their own.

13 Jan 2023
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The Year Ahead - What we already know

Some years ago, when the Aussie Dollar was trading at $0.88, a number of leading economists were asked for their twelve-month forecasts. One confidently said our dollar would reach parity with the US dollar within a year. Instead, the AUD finished the year 34 per cent down at $0.58. Making economic predictions is fraught with peril. Economics is more art than science, and a modern economy has many moving parts that don’t always behave rationally. Still, looking ahead in 2023, there are some things we can reasonably expect.

5 Jan 2023
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The Best Investment - Ever

Have you ever wondered what the best share market investment of all time is? It’s not Apple, the world’s first trillion-dollar business. It’s not Meta Platforms Inc (the company formerly known as Facebook) either, although plenty of people who ‘liked’ Facebook enough in the early days to invest in it have become millionaires. You may never have heard the name of the best investment of all time, although you certainly know about its products. You may even be a customer.

14 Dec 2022
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Investing Ethically

Ethical investment funds aren’t new. Some people have always shunned investments associated with harmful activities such as uranium mining, deforestation and arms manufacture. Instead, they’ve looked for opportunities in renewable energy, education and healthcare.

9 Dec 2022
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The rise of central bank digital currencies

The Reserve Bank of Australia is running a pilot to explore retail use cases for a central bank digital currency (CBDC) — a digital Aussie dollar or e-dollar, which could be held digitally like cryptocurrencies. This is not the first time CBDC is being tested for real-world use by the RBA. It has carried out two pilots in the last two years to test tokenised CBDC for the wholesale market and cross-border payments.

14 Oct 2022
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