The Money Puzzle

If you don't have a Will, that's plain stupid. If you have a Will, you should also consider a Testamentary Discretionary Trust...and if you have done that too, you'd better watch the new Budget reforms because you may have to make changes.

In today's edition, we cover...

Estate planning - The basics for the everyday investor
Testamentary Discretionary Trust - They escaped new taxes, check them out
Trust reforms - If your family trust is being restructured, it may affect your Will
Tackling the 17 per cent tax on inherited super.

Estate planning lawyer, Rachael Rofe,+ joins Associate Editor, James Kirby in this episode.
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It's the biggest investment upsurge we have seen since the LNG gas expansion of more than a decade ago: Data centre construction will make or break investors in the years ahead...how to play it?
Emanuel Datt of Datt Capital joins Associate Editor, James Kirby, in this episode.

In today's show, we cover:

* Your jungle guide to the $150bn data centre boom
* The hottest stocks at the centre of the action
* "Picks and shovels' - the service companies investors prefer
* Proxy bets - how money is raised behind the scenes to fuel the boom

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The gold price bounced in August, suggesting the yellow metal may soon recommence the rally that enthralled investors across 2025: It might be time to top up....

In today's show, we cover

The outlook for gold
A gold digger's favourite picks
Why gold miners so often blow their prospects
Raleigh Finlayson - The rise of a gold dynamo

Cameron Judd of the Victor Smorgon Partners Resources Gold Fund joins Associate Editor, James Kirby in this episode
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House price falls have some way to go, and now that we have the clear and present danger of more rate hikes, bargain hunters have time to kill.

In today's show, we cover;
How the downturn will deepen from here
Can the first home market stay unaffected?
Housing developer busts - Bathla will not be an isolated case
The Spring pile-up - waiting for an avalanche of new listings

Cameron Kusher of Kusher Consulting joins Associate Editor James Kirby in this episode
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It's the hot-button question for so many investors - how to optimise any spare cash they may have on hand. For younger investors it's often the mortgage; for older investors it's often putting the money into super (before it's too late) But which is it for you?
Olivia Maragna of Aspire Retire joins Associate Editor, James Kirby in this episode.

In today's show, we cover:
Super for mortgage...what to do?
Did super win or lose in the Budget?
Are we close to the peak in the current mortgage cycle
The home that negative gearing forgot
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