Just how you manage your debt is no secret thanks to credit history files, so it pays to keep your file in shipshape order if you want success in buying property. Have you ever borrowed money for a car, owned a credit card, or forgot to pay your phone bill on time? Were you aware […]

All the talk prior to the last Federal Election regarding the Mining Super Tax, has made me think, maybe there should be a super profit tax on the banks. The four major banks, last year made a combined net profit of B$21.8. We are talking billions here not millions, then they have the arrogance to […]

I have just come back from a Finance Conference at which two of the guest speakers were economists from ANZ Bank and NAB, and they had interesting comments on how they saw interest rates going over the next 12 months.  The NAB economist predicted that the cash rate would increase by 1% over the next […]