Gravity's new minimum wage : $70,000 per year I was amazed this week when I read in the newspaper about Dan Price the CEO of Gravity Payments in the United States guaranteeing that every employee would have a wage of at least $70,000 over the next three years. You can ...
Email scams
Beware of email scams Has it happened to you before? Email scams. You receive an unsolicited email for parcel collection, a banking fault, or an offer too good to refuse. If this ever happens please, please ignore them. The worst thing you can ever do is click the attached link ...
Top websites
Top Websites I thought in my travels around the web that I would direct you to some great sites that I have seen and are really worth a look. They are not necessarily all finance blogs and can often be about other aspects of our busy lives. Sometimes we can ...
Tony Abbott – will the music stop?
Tony Abbott - will the music stop? I wrote a post called "Federal Budget and flying to the moon" in May 2014 about how federal politicians don't seem to have a long term economic view. The recent debacle the Liberal government has found itself in and subsequent fall in popularity ...
Charity or Swiss bank accounts?
Charity or Swiss bank accounts? How about forgetting the charities and moving all your money to Swiss bank accounts. I read in the newspaper recently that the Australian Tax Office had an amnesty in place for wealthy people who have Swiss Bank accounts that may contain funds transferred from Australia. The ...
What do Daniel Ricciardo & Kurt Furnley have in common?
What do Daniel Ricciardo & Kurt Furnley have in common? I couldn't believe it the other day when I read about these two great Australian sportsman. They are both very different people (Daniel is a F1 grand prix driver and Kurt is a wheelchair racer) but have many common traits. The ...
Aussies remain the worlds richest people
Aussies remain the worlds richest people - according to Credit Suisse 2013 Global Wealth Report. The median wealth of Australians is $233,504 per person which is the highest per capita in the world. Median wealth is the mid point between richest and poorest. 50% of Aussies have more than $233,504 ...
Rockefellers out of oil?
Rockefellers out of oil? I don't believe what I have heard on the radio today. What timing! At the same time as a large climate change summit is commencing in New York the Rockefeller Foundation has announced that it is removing it's funds from fossil fuel based investments and moving ...
Financial planning crisis
Financial planning crisis. This is only going to be a brief post to reiterate what I have already said in my other posts Commonwealth bank scandal - financial planning's first scalp and It's your money - isn't it? Commonwealth Bank scandal. Another player It now seems that the Macquarie bank is also being investigated over ...
Comm. bank scandal – financial planning’s first scalp
Financial planning's first scalp I recently wrote about the Commonwealth Bank financial planning scandal in a post "Its your money - isn't it? Commonwealth bank scandal." It seems now that the scandal has claimed it's first executive scalp. His tenure took place while the worst financial planning scandal was taking place. ...
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