As New Year resolution time rolls around spare a thought for your business, because every business can benefit from a few resolutions of its own. Here are a few ideas that any business can build some New Year resolutions around.

Make sure you have an up to date business...

The dawn of a new year sees many people setting new year’s resolutions such as losing some weight or giving up smoking.

Similarly, the beginning of a new year is the ideal time for setting financial goals, and here are four practical ways you can kick your year off to a...

Just over four years ago Sarah bought an investment property.  To help pay for it she took out a $400,000, 25-year mortgage that offered interest-only (IO) repayments for the first five years.

At an interest rate of 4% per annum those initial repayments amounted to $1,...

Forget about location, location, location being the key to a good investment outcome. For now, let’s think of the most important ingredient as being regular, regular, regular!

A regular savings plan can turn small amounts of money into a sum that can take you closer to...

Each new generation will treat money differently to the last, but children of the 21st Century certainly have many more uses for money than those of the last century. Not all that long ago a bike or a doll was a 5-year-old’s dream gift; now it’s an iPad!

Attitudes and a...

Why the 'GAD' is the new GFC

There’s a new acronym being bandied around property and finance circles - GAD - or the ‘Great Australian Deleveraging’. What is it?

Australia is experiencing record levels of debt accompanied by declining house prices. This means we have ente...

What’s happening in Australia? 

• Economy – the Australian economy grew by 0.8 percent q/q (seasonally-adjusted) in the June quarter of 2017 and 2.0 percent y/y.

• Growth - was relatively broad-based with domestic final demand and net exports contributing strongly.

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Economic Update - worries over worsening family finances

Australian wages are rising at their slowest pace on record, subduing spending at a point when household debt has climbed to an all-time peak. Combine this with an inflation rate which is at a 2 ½ year high has me...

It’s been a busy few weeks for us at Investment Zone; not only have we been inundated with new clients, but we have been spending some time on Federal Budget Analysis since the announcements on Tuesday 9th May. Unsurprisingly, there was little by way of social security...