The Money Puzzle

How do you get a pay rise? Should you join that start-up that promises to go to the moon, or should you simply buy your first home a lot sooner than you had planned?

In today's show, we cover:
Career Control - The finances of career navigation
Catching up - Investment tips for the late starter
Your career and your SMSF - Getting business to pay you rent
Sweat equity - Deciding if you should jump to a start-up

Adviser and author, Jacqui Clarke, joins Associate Editor, James Kirby, in this episode
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Interest rates are moving higher worldwide, but this time around it's for
good reason: The AI boom is fuelling tremendous returns on global share markets.
As the game gets riskier, your cash is now returning nearly 5 per cent risk-free; it's getting
hard to beat

In today's show, we cover...
Why cash is beating total bond returns out the door
Investing in a high-rate, high-return market
New traps - Private credit is on the wrong side of the rate cycle
Infrastructure shines through as rates run higher
Will Hamilton of Hamilton Wealth Partners joins Associate Editor James Kirby in this episode
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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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