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Four steps to take before downsizing your home

Four steps to take before downsizing your home

The property we’re in can often feel like our “forever home”, so making the call to downsize can feel like a big decision

  • by Rachel Lane

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Can you afford to retire now?
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Can you afford to retire now?

It’s the question on all of our minds as we approach our later years, but the answer requires some careful planning.

  • by Bec Wilson
Retiring soon? Time to reduce, review and switch your services
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Retiring soon? Time to reduce, review and switch your services

Take the opportunity – at the time when you will most benefit from cutting your cost of living – to run the ruler over your gas, electricity, and insurance.

  • by Bec Wilson
Our super funds won’t help us with retirement, so it’s time to take control

Our super funds won’t help us with retirement, so it’s time to take control

With super funds failing to provide pre-retirees the help they need, here are some steps you can take yourself.

  • by Bec Wilson
I’m 54 and exhausted by work. Can I afford to retire early?

I’m 54 and exhausted by work. Can I afford to retire early?

Retiring before 60 is definitely possible, but requires a bit of careful calculation and planning.

  • by Paul Benson
Why it’s time to get selfish about your superannuation

Why it’s time to get selfish about your superannuation

If your fund can’t make an average return for a fair fee in one of the sexier years of super, should you really be sticking around?

  • by Bec Wilson
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Retiring soon? It’s time to start thinking about these six things
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Retiring soon? It’s time to start thinking about these six things

If you’re among the 500,000 Australians thinking of retiring in the next five years, it’s time to seize control of these six things.

  • by Bec Wilson
How much does it cost to move to a retirement village?

How much does it cost to move to a retirement village?

Anyone looking at downsizing into a retirement village will know how complicated the financial arrangements can be.

  • by Rachel Lane
Fight for your rites to party
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Fight for your rites to party

It’s part and parcel of passing.

Why retirees are being short-changed by the big banks

Why retirees are being short-changed by the big banks

If you want great interest rates on your savings in this market, it is time to switch banks.

  • by Bec Wilson
You have to hand it to Boomers, they’ve won the economic generation game

You have to hand it to Boomers, they’ve won the economic generation game

To expect their less-well-off descendants to fund their continued privilege is, well, a bit rich.

  • by Antoinette Lattouf