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	We all enter contracts every day, so why are they still so hard to understand? The importance of contracts in everyday life is often overlooked READ MORE

More Your Money: Managing financial safety onlineShopping online is one of the great conveniences of modern times. It not only saves people time, but it also allows...; Managing money as a big family; How to ask for a pay raise; Rash decisions - and how they can hurt your finances; Confused about tax changes? How the recent budget will affect taxpayers

More Savings Tips: Saving on spring cleaningOf all the tasks on the household to-do list, cleaning is perhaps one of the most onerous. But it can also be...; How to cut down your electricity bill; Debate: Can living "cash only" help with budgeting?; How to build great savings habits in kids; Making your meals go further to save cash

More Get Out of Debt: Get that credit rating up: Improving access to loansAccessing credit relies on more than a lender simply assessing income and outgoings in order to see whether the...; Why payday loans are not the answer; How families can avoid borrowing too much over winter; What are regulators doing about Australia's credit card crisis?; Australia: Personal debt capital of the world

More Property & Home: Extensions: Are they worth it for boosting property value?This article will explore home extensions and consider whether or not they're worth it in the grand scheme of home...; Property market round-up: Focus on the ACT; Property round-up: Focus on Northern Territory; Property market round-up: Focus on Tasmania; Property market round-up: Focus on Western Australia

More Retirement: Retirement: The Australian pensions landscapeThis article will explain what the Australian pension landscape looks like and who may end up paying any shortfall...; Submissions want super tax concessions cut: Treasury; Our super system isn't perfect - but for a failure, look to the US; Tapping super not the answer to home ownership decline; It's your super, so why shouldn't you be allowed access?

More Investment: Weekend trading: How to maximise Saturday and Sunday successFor a trader who also trades during the week, the main benefit of weekend trading is the opportunity to earn more cash.; Swing trading: An introduction; What tax obligations do day traders face?; Social copy trading: The benefits - and risks; Why the binary options world is bad for investors

More Millionaire Mindset: Takeover - Foreign Investment and the Australian PsycheOne of the perennial features of Australia?s economic and political discourse is how to deal with foreign investment; Volkswagen fallout shows how not to manage a crisis; Why everybody knows CEOs are overpaid, but nothing happens; As China changes from world's factory to innovator, Australia needs to keep pace; The super rich and tax: lifters or leaners?

More Work: Dealing with job loss: A guideHere are some tips on how to make sure a period of unemployment can be managed in a way that not only covers the...; Managing across generations will deliver more productive workplaces; Let's talk about your pay, and loudly; Labor 2.0: why we shouldn't fear the 'sharing economy' and the reinvention of work; Australia's gig economy yet to register in employment numbers

More Ask an Advisor: Yes, it is our business: how corporations can help on Sustainable Development GoalsThe SDGs focus on the greatest challenges faced by humanity with the aim of ending poverty and hunge; Australia's next wave of startups could be from the over-55s; How fast food is reinventing itself as healthy and caring; What the mining sector and Australian politics have in common; Economic modelling may overplay the costs of Australia's 2030 climate target

More Smart Spending: 14 Things Successful People Do On WeekendsSuccessful people know that time is too precious to be totally leisurely about leisure; Returning to work after childbirth: still a case of 'managing it all'; Priceless: the inefficient, but merry economics of Christmas; Pie Face collapse a lesson in biting off more than you can chew; Rise of corporate divorces leads to fleeting gains

"It's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."

Abraham Lincoln

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Sydney Airport lifts profit 4.2%,
Strong international passenger numbers have lifted Sydney Airport's first-half profit by 4.2 per cent.
Trump administration moves to relax coal pollution rules,
President Donald Trump's administration announced a plan Tuesday to weaken regulations on US coal plants...
Facebook cuts ad-target options to thwart discrimination,
Facebook said Tuesday is cutting more than 5,000 ad-targeting options to prevent advertisers from discriminating based on traits...
A2 Milk more than doubles profit,
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AAP Markets Report,
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AMP hires ex-Credit Suisse exec as new CEO,
Financial services giant AMP has appointed former Credit Suisse executive Francesco De Ferrari as its new CEO.
Stocks to watch,
Stocks making moves or news on the ASX.
Aussies paying more at the petrol bowser,
Aussies are paying higher prices than they have over the last four years as concerns about global oil supply simmer.
Aust shares set to start lower,
Australian shares are likely to open lower as investors focus on a slew of company results, while political turmoil continues to...