There are three main ways you can make money on property: Rental yield Capital growth Growth on rental yield Let’s have a chat about the first two. Rental yield A property’s rental yield is calculated by dividing a property’s annual rental earnings by its valuation. I often argue that the better way of calculating rental […]
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Home loan products: Redraw facilities and offset accounts
For each day that you owe money to the bank on a home loan, interest accrues on that loan. You make periodic home loan repayments and if your home loan is a P&I loan (see Home loan products: P&I vs IO loans), the value of your loan, the principal, will slowly trickle downwards. What if […]
Negative and positive gearing
Negative and positive gearing are very popular topics, especially when we talk about residential investment. Generally speaking, if your investment is negatively geared, then from a finance perspective you’ve likely made a poor investment decision. It’s only from a tax perspective that you may actually derive some benefits. However it’s very important to understand that […]
Private health insurance
If you were ever looking for a euphemism for the word ‘useless’, look no further. I recently purchased private health insurance and I’ve never felt more robbed in my life. What a spectacular waste of money. Assumptions I’ve made three assumptions in dismissing private health cover’s value to society. First, you live in Australia or […]
Why saving is getting you nowhere
Let’s say you made a declaration to cut down on your routine smashed avo shenanigans because some rich prick told you that delicious green mush is the real reason you can’t afford to own real estate (#okboomer) and you’ve instead opted to set aside more of your fortnightly wages into a savings account to buy […]
20 money tips for 2020
The new decade is here and all your new year’s resolutions are lame. Let a not-so-humble smashed avo enthusiast give you a hand. Here are 20 short and sweet money tips for 2020. Pay off your (bad) debts: The greatest hurdle to achieving financial independence is most likely to be debt. If your debts include […]
Salary sacrificing
Should you do it? Well I’m not really allowed to say. Because laws. But it’s more complicated than that anyway. Now that that’s out of the way, here’s what it is. Salary sacrificed super contributions If I was to write an article about all the different methods of salary sacrificing, you might still be reading […]
Accumulating assets
One of the best pieces of advice I ever received early in my career was that if I wanted to be wealthy, I needed to focus less on growing my income and more on accumulating assets. In most OECD countries, this is true from both a finance and a tax perspective. Assets grow faster than […]
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