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Young people today lived through the 2008 recession and its aftershocks. I can tell you now, the words ‘global financial crisis’ do not tend to build financial confidence. The numerous disparaging avocado toast editorials in the national press also tend to make young people collectively want to switch off.

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Topics: Financial Literacy, Credit Rating, Saving, Gender Gap, business, tips, superannuation, habits

“This is the way it’s always been.”

“That’s not how we do that.”

“If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.”

These are the core tenets of corporate inertia.

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Topics: Financial Literacy, Home Business, Small Business, Why insurance matters, Launching your own business, business

It’s exciting and scary to say goodbye to being an employee and strike out on your own. When you finally commit your ideas to paper – and these days, to the digital space – and announce to the world that you are starting your own business, you know you will now be your own boss. You will make the rules, and you will reap the rewards of your own hard work and creativity.

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Topics: Financial Literacy, Home Business, Small Business, Why insurance matters, Launching your own business, business

Australia’s financial markets, and the range of financial products, services and options available, continue to evolve.

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Topics: Financial Literacy, Financial Independence, tips

The World Health Organisation defines wellness as “a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.”

Our finances are also integral to wellness. Money is a representation of life energy, whether derived from your own efforts or those of a deceased relative who was fortunate enough to pass along a legacy. When you are worried about money, it affects your overall well-being.

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Topics: Finance, Financial Literacy, Financial Independence, tips, wellness

Having an awareness and understanding of what impacts our financial position now and potentially in the future, allows us to plan, understand the risks and think through contingency planning (sounds like work? It is!).

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Topics: Finance, Financial Literacy, career, superannuation

Most small businesses (including those that grow to become very large ones) start with a passion for a product, a vision for an improvement, to disrupt the status quo, perhaps to create a better world.

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Topics: Financial Literacy, Business Profile, Wellbeing For Dogs, Launching your own business, Helen McNall

ASICs 2014-2017 Financial Literacy Strategy document makes it clear why financial literacy is so important for women.

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Topics: Women, Imalia, Financial Literacy

I have always been passionate, and oftentimes angry, at the injustices and imbalances I see in our society. And no more so when this injustice involves women and their equal place in all aspects of our world.

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Topics: Insurance, Finance, Women, Imalia, Carole-Anne Priest, Financial Literacy