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How You Can Smash Your Debt With These 3 Easy Tricks

How You Can Smash Your Debt With These 3 Easy Tricks

Just like football, meat pies, kangaroos and Holden cars, debt seems to be a national past time in Australia. According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics 74% of Australians held debt in 2016, with the most common type being credit card debt. Whilst the trend shows the percentage of households in debt has not changed a great deal in the last ten years the average amount has almost DOUBLED. However all is not lost, we as a collective have the…

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Product Review: Acorns

Product Review: Acorns

This article has been updated December 2017. Fintech is playing a big part in the future of personal finance. Although the basics of investing remain the same and always likely will, the advent of apps such Acorns have changed the landscape of investing. Acorns will probably not appeal to a serious investor, (for some reason I can’t see Warren Buffett opening an account) however it has really done a great job reaching out to a group of individuals that otherwise…

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