Saving Money

GroceryChoice – Is It Any Good?

Thursday, August 7th, 2008

GroceryChoice compares grocery prices across major supermarkets

Easy Ways To Save Energy And Lower Your Energy Bills

Sunday, August 3rd, 2008

Here are a few tips that you can easily implement in your house and slash your energy bills

Unit Prices For Groceries

Saturday, August 2nd, 2008

The recent report released by Australian Bureau Of Statistics showed us how the grocery prices in all the cities has been rising. Whilst we acknowledge the work done by ABS, we honestly don’t need a report to tell us that. Our hip pockets have been feeling the heat for some time now. Franklins, a major [...]

Tips On Saving Money At The Supermarket

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

Australian Bureau Of Statistics has released the average retail prices of grocery items in eight capital cities as at the end of June 2008. I have compiled a comparison of the prices at the end of June 08 with that of the prices at the end of June 07. The prices of all the items [...]

Term Deposits In Australia

Monday, July 28th, 2008

Term Deposits – What They Are? Term Deposits are accounts that offer fixed interest rate over a fixed term. Terms: The following are some of the common terms for term deposit accounts: 30 days 90 days 180 days 270 days 1 year 2 years 3 years 4 years 5 years Interest Rates: Interest rates are [...]

Behavioral Finance – Use The Investor Psychology To Your Advantage

Saturday, July 26th, 2008

The Text Book Approach To Investment Theoretically stock prices are guided by the ‘efficient market hypothesis’. Here are the fundamentals of this hypothesis: The price of stocks already reflects all the available information. Investors behave rationally – they use the information available to decide whether to buy or sell a stock If the markets were [...]

An Emergency Fund – Why You Need One And How To Start One?

Thursday, July 24th, 2008

Financial Pundits recommend that everyone must have an Emergency Fund. Here is some information about the importance of Emergency Funds and hopefully by the end of this post, I would have convinced you to start one (if you don’t already have one). What Is An Emergency Fund? Funds that you can access in case of [...]

‘Simple Savings’ Review

Saturday, July 12th, 2008

Review of one of the most popular money savings websites on the internet

Start A Savings Plan

Friday, July 11th, 2008

According to a recent report released by ‘The Melbourne Institute household saving and investment report ‘ the number of households which saved part of their income fell to 43.5 per cent in June 2008, compared with 45.9 per cent a year ago. One does not have to be a rocket scientist to realise that the [...]

Savings Account Rates

Friday, July 11th, 2008

A recent poll by Galaxy Research Poll concluded that more than 80% of Australians don’t know the interest they earn on their savings account. I am ashamed to admit that I am one of those Australians. Up until this afternoon I had no idea what my savings account was earning. I have a savings account [...]

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