What Is a Safe Asset?

Australians have always loved property. For generations, bricks and mortar have been seen as one of the safest places to put your money, but right now property is giving us a useful reminder that no asset simply goes up forever. CommBank is forecasting a 9% to 10% fall in major capital city home prices from […]

SMSFs hit record high

Something interesting is happening in super. Australians established 52,020 new self-managed super funds in the 2025-26 financial year, the highest number ever established in a single financial year, taking the total number of SMSFs to a record 680,301. And these aren’t small numbers when you look at the super system as a whole. Australia had […]