Podcast Episodes

Would you tap your super to buy a first home?

Using super for any reason other than retirement savings used to be taboo: Not anymore, and not when the tax system is totally loaded in favour of th…

1 year, 10 months ago

Should you have a Self Managed Super Fund?

Are SMSFs worth the trouble? How much should you have in funds to get started? 

There are now more than 600,000 SMSFs in the local market: If you don…

1 year, 10 months ago

A golden age for the apartment investor?

The argument against apartment investment has always been the same: 'They can just keep adding new developments'...well, not anymore. The market is c…

1 year, 10 months ago

The Budget Special Edition

The 2024 budget was a deft piece of work: Politically astute, and supportive of low-income Australians but also a very mixed bag for investors.

In to…

1 year, 10 months ago

New order: How Canberra and Brisbane now outpace Melbourne

You might think you know the Australian property market but the goalposts are moving: Hobart had slid down the ladder, Canberra is second only to Syd…

1 year, 10 months ago

'Sell in May and go away' - fact or fiction?

Is there anything behind this piece of share market folk wisdom? We find out.Also, our biggest super funds are set to expand their offerings in finan…

1 year, 10 months ago

Postcode discrimination - positive or negative ?

The banks are starting to carve up the lending market by postcode. If you are inside one of the 145 (out of 3300) postcodes ANZ Bank has cherry picke…

1 year, 11 months ago

So you thought you knew ETFs...

The plain vanilla Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) turned the Australian funds management sector on its head. Now, the whole scene is changing again with e…

1 year, 11 months ago

What we can learn from the way Australia's billionaire families invest

For the first time in the history of The Money Puzzle, James Kirby is off sick. James will be back on Thursday with a new episode, but for now we hop…

1 year, 11 months ago

The case for raising rates now

It might seem like only yesterday that rates were supposed to be coming down but the news changes fast: This week's inflation data has already prompt…

1 year, 11 months ago