Financial Topics
What’s Up With Child Care Fees?
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008What’s Up With Child Care Fees
Fuel Costs Is Just A Small Portion Of The Actual Costs Of Owning A Car
Thursday, August 21st, 2008Find out your car’s actual costs (running and fixed costs)
How The World Spends Its Money
Wednesday, August 20th, 2008How The World Spends Its Money
World’s Top Ten Most Expensive Streets
Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
Wealth-Bulletin.com is an online news and analysis service for the global wealth management industry. Two weeks ago Wealth-Bulletin released a list of world’s top ten expensive streets…Here is the list:
1. Avenue Princess Grace, Monaco
2. Severn Road, Hong Kong
3. Fifth Avenue, New York City
4. [...]
Five Tips To Recession Proof Yourself
Thursday, August 7th, 2008
Here are some tips to recession proof yourself:
1. Emergency Fund
If you don’t already have an emergency fund then start one. If you already have one, then make sure you have at least 6 months of living expenses in the fund. Now would be a good time to make some contributions to the fund and increase [...]
Will Australia Face Recession?
Tuesday, August 5th, 2008Will Australia Face Recession
Mobile Phone Banking Is On the Way….
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008This year ANZ and NAB came out with Mobile banking features. NAB allows its customers to check their account balances and the last few transactions (all from their mobile). ANZ goes a step further - I actually viewed a demo of their M-Banking features and it is quite impressive - you can transfer funds, check [...]
Are You A Kipper Or Do You Know One?
Sunday, July 13th, 2008SBS is airing a new and an interesting series this week. Its called ‘The Nest’. This new show is about ‘Kippers’ - Kids In Parents’ Pockets Eroding Retirement Savings. Adult kids aged between 20 and 29 who continue to live with their parents are called Kippers.
According to 2006 census, 16% of people in this [...]
Watch Out For Scams
Wednesday, July 9th, 2008I recently came across an interesting website called ScamWatch - this site is run by Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) and aims to provide information to common people and small business owners about how to recognise and avoid scams. Most of us have probably received emails from Iraqi and Nigerian citizens who promise [...]
Chip and Pin Technology Credit Cards
Tuesday, July 8th, 2008Two weeks ago I got my new credit card (since old one expired). The new card had a ’shiny’ chip installed on it. All new credit cards now come embedded with these micro chips. These new chip credit cards are called ‘SmartCards’. These cards have become quite common in Asia and Europe and are now [...]
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