The Money Puzzle
The Australian
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Featuring two power-packed episodes each week packed with smart money-making strategies, from superannuation to investing in shares, plus in-depth analysis of property markets.
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Featuring two power-packed episodes each week packed with smart money-making strategies, from superannuation to investing in shares, plus in-depth analysis of property markets.
Get tips from leading experts and practical tools to help build lasting wealth.
Submit your questions at themoneypuzzle@theaustralian.com.au.
Episodes
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Jul 13, 2017 • 24min
Is the formula broken for milk stocks? The wackiest thing you'll hear this year on renewables. Why family trusts could fill the super gap.
This week on the Money Cafe agenda: could a massive boost in ETF activity lift volatily? No end in sight for turmoil over infant formula. The real reason Elon's bringing the world's biggest battery to South Australia. Why Craig Kelly got it wrong on renewables. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jul 6, 2017 • 30min
The ATO gives up on Google and hunts mum and dad instead. Fairfax bidders flee. Will your next house be built by a robo-bricklayer?
Fairfax suitors are walking away, the RBA is sitting pat, and our retirees should be screaming over the latest changes to Australia's retirement system. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jun 29, 2017 • 24min
Did your pension fund miss the market bounce this year? How the Dick Smith mob hit the rocks at Slater and Gordon. Has Australia Post's first female CEO been short changed?
When fund managers aren't crowing after a solid year on markets, should we start to worry that they've missed an opportunity? Also: making sense of Alex Malley's crash to earth, Christine Holgate's pay, the scandalous state of Australia's retirement community, and what could be next for beleaguered law firm Slater & Gordon. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jun 22, 2017 • 22min
Super changes - what you absolutely must know. Coke's expensive sugar habit. Is there hope amid the retail recession?
Retail writer Eli Greenblat sits in this week for a discussion of the state of the retail sector, who will be hit hardest by Amazon's expansion, and what Australians need to know before the superannuation reforms come in on July 1. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jun 15, 2017 • 29min
Superannuation gets its first new idea in decades. Property owners put on notice. Can anyone make money from UBER ?
Fallen figures and falling house prices feature prominently in this week's discussion. Also covered: bitcoin alternative ethereum, the Finkel review and the latest unemployment data. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jun 8, 2017 • 23min
Was that GDP figure good or bad? Bunnings backs its sausages against Amazon's raids. Why is Resources Minister Canavan so keen to back Adani?
In this week's episode, James and Alan get to the bottom of what a first homebuyer grant really achieves, give an update on the Altair debacle, and try to unpick the contradictions of where Australia's renewable energy landscape. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jun 1, 2017 • 25min
Slowing house prices, Telstra's sunny side up, and the fund manager who gave his money back and got sued by his mum
James Kirby and Alan Kohler debate the tale of the fund manager to threw in the towel, and the other biggest news stories of the week. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
May 25, 2017 • 23min
I want my tax to be tax deductible!
Is the Fairfax bidding war real? Do we pay ATO employees enough? And is Trump's first budget ludicrous? In this week's episode of The Money Cafe, James Kirby and Alan Kohler try to separate the real facts from the fake news. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
May 18, 2017 • 23min
The ATO's spectacular scandal, the power play inside Fairfax's takeover, and can markets survive Trump?
Markets have withstood every Trump bombshell to date, so what would it take for the leader of the free world to destabilise global economies? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
May 11, 2017 • 24min
Budget 2017: what really happened? Banks, and Australia's biggest property rort
Alan Kohler and James Kirby reflect on what the 2017-18 budget really means. Has the government picked a fight with the nation's biggest banks? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
