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Making regular deposits into an investment fund can provide you with significant benefits.

By making small regular deposits rather than one large lump sum deposit, you can reduce the vulnerability of your investment to market fluctuations. For example, if you commit to investing $1,000 a month in January. With a unit price of $1.00, your first instalment purchases 1,000 units. The next month, you invest another $1,000 but this time the unit price has risen to $1.10, buying you 909 units. This is illustrated in the table below.

As a business owner, there are plenty of things you need to manage, and two of the most important of these are assets and risks.

In other words, building your wealth and protecting your wealth.

The principles behind winning in business and winning in sport are similar in many ways.

Take tennis, for example. If you’ve ever watched a match on television, you’ll know that along with all the hitting, running and grunting there are a lot of numbers involved.

If a business owner said to you that they run their business without a budget, what would you think? You’d think they were incompetent. Or perhaps lazy? Or both?

Have you been doing the numbers and panicking a little recently?

If your super fund is a little ‘light’ as you start to think ahead to your golden years, you’re not alone.

With 1 July just around the corner, a number of new super and Centrelink rules that could impact your financial situation will come into effect. Here are the ones that you need to know about.

What if you knew what your coworkers really thought about you and what they were really like? Ray Dalio makes the business case for using radical transparency and algorithmic decision-making to create an idea meritocracy where people can speak up and say what they really think – even calling out the boss is fair game. Learn more about how these strategies helped Dalio create one of the world’s most successful hedge funds and how you might harness the power of data-driven group decision-making.

Self Managed Superannuation Funds can breathe a sigh of relief after the Government handed down a Budget that largely left superannuation untouched.

After waiting for what seems like an eternity, the government has finally put to Parliament its draft legislation around two of its schemes.

Have you or someone you know considered taking up ride-sharing (also called ride-sourcing) to earn extra income, or even as an alternative form of employment?