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Lukas Winward says the beauty of golf is that the act of playing, walking and teeing up gives people plenty of time to think.

The happiest retirees have these things in common

Someone who retires at 67 and is lucky enough to live to 87 in good health has 7300 days to fill. Make them happy ones, advises The Golfing Counsellor.

  • Lucy Dean
AFR

House deposit or HECS debt: what’s best for the kids?

Soaring student loan debts can reduce first home buyer lending capacity by up to $140,000, according to analysis by RateCity.

  • Duncan Hughes and Lucy Dean

Business bankruptcies are at a 25-year high and that’s very bad news

In total, 1131 businesses went bust in the month, which was the largest number since ASIC started collecting these statistics in 1999.

  • Christopher Joye

The curse of market concentration is spreading

Concentration risk has tended to be predominantly confined to the Australian market but as investors diversify overseas, they face a similar problem in the United States.

  • Ben Smythe

How do I calculate my tax-free super pension limit?

The transfer balance cap has increased twice since its inception to reach $1.9 million. Calculating how to stay within it can be tricky.

  • John Wasiliev

New superannuation tax may hit venture capital

SMSFs will shy away from investing in start-ups for fear of being slugged with big tax bills on unrealised gains.

  • Peter Burgess

Wealthiest Australians

RM Williams CEO Paul Grosmann with Tattarang director Nicola Forrest at the Salisbury factory

$650 for RM’s? ‘People want handcrafted,’ says Nicola Forrest

Nicola Forrest says people are tiring of throwaway fast fashion as the iconic company she co-owns lifts capacity to tap into a fast-growing market for women’s boots.

  • Simon Evans
Minderoo Foundation chief executive John Hartman has swung the axe.

Forrests’ $10b philanthropic foundation to cut 100 jobs

Andrew and Nicola Forrest’s Minderoo Foundation will shed about a third of its workforce in an overhaul aimed at making better use of its iron ore endowment.

  • Brad Thompson
Casella Family Brands managing director John Casella at the group’s winery at Yenda in NSW.

This Rich Lister sees a wave of distressed wine sales coming

The MD of Casella Family Brands, owner of Australia’s biggest-selling wine export brand Yellow Tail, says the under $10 per bottle segment is still shrinking.

  • Simon Evans
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