Apologies for this week's Dad joke, but we have Katrina McPhee, Chief of Staff of Aware Super, Australia's 3rd largest super fund on the show to chat to us about super and performance.  The key is not focusing on the short game, that's the trick, your super is a long term play, whether you are 25, 45, 65 or 85 for that matter.  Kat is with us today to help educate all of us about the great things super can do, and the even greater things that can happen if you manage and care for it!

Maria Nati, a recently trained new presenter on Radio Northern Beaches joins us this week on Dollars and Making Sense to discuss "Wellness & Finance".  Finding balance, and how the pursuit of wellness, as well as finance, should be done with passion and vigour.  We also discuss Maria's new radio show that is all about something, and nothing at the same time!  Jerry eat your heart out...  A weekly show about finance, money and investing.

What do crypto investors look like, and do they invest differently to the rest of the market?  What challenges does the Advice Industry face in trying to service this asset class?  This week we welcome Anna Vennonen, Research Consultant from Coredata to discuss some research conducted in the area of Cryptocurrency and how the Australian Advice Industry is or is not keeping pace with this fast evolving space.

CoreData research report: Australia's Crypto Investors: A Growing Market For Advice: https://coredatainsights.com/cd-insights/australias-crypto-investors-a-growing-market-for-advice/
Anna's Thesis - More than Money : An Ethnography of Dreams, Value and Community in the Cryptoscene:https://helda.helsinki.fi/items/21b4301c-ccda-44d8-beea-6cd045c0d3bc
Key summary of thesis: https://www.blockchainresearchlab.org/2023/05/31/decoding-social-dynamics-an-anthropological-study-on-cryptocurrency/
Book chapter - Affective Processes In Cryptocurrency Markets: An Exploration of Crowd Theory in Crypto Crowds Edited by Matan Shapiro: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9781805392941-005/html

We welcome back Glenn Butcher, CEO of FundWA to continue our discussions about Venture Capital.  This episode we focus on the sharp end of the process and start talking about Term Sheets, Pitch Events and how we get our money back - yes, Exit Strategies.  A valuable insight into how founders find investment capital, and how investors reap the benefits of being early adopters and keep faith in their projects.

The bank of Mum & Dad is increasingly playing a major part of house purchases today, but many Centrelink payment recipients fail to appreciate the impact helping their kids out might have on the their pension payments.  Justin Bott from Services Australia visits us again to illuminate on this area that is still widely misunderstood.  Find out the difference between "gifting" and "loan" when family provides funds to each other.  The rules are straight forward yet catch too many out.

We welcome back Justin Bott, Media Info Officer from Services Australia to chat about end of year obligations if you receive government payments.  Do you have to fill in a tax return?  What are the implications of not doing so?  Justin provides an excellent review and some great takeaways for those who are wondering if they need to fill in a tax return this year or not?  Dollars & Making Sense, a weekly show about finance, money & investing.

We continue our series on venture capital with Glenn Butcher, CEO of FundWA and this week, we delve into the deal itself, what makes a good deal, and what the phases that investors may need to consider when evaluating a potential investment.  Is this something anyone can do, or should we leave to the professionals.  Tune in to find about the 3 Fs (family, friends and fools) and they apply to investing your hard earned money into VC opportunities.

This week we venture (pardon the pun) into VC - venture capital and talk with Glenn Butcher, CEO of FundWA about the basics of VC investing, how it operates and a general introduction into a much misunderstood sector of the investment landscape.  Its not as risky as you might think when you have experienced managers and founders who know what they're doing.  This is a great introduction into a fascinating investment sector.  This is part 1 of a 3 part series.

 “There are three kinds of lies: Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics” — has been attributed to Mark Twain, who himself attributed it to British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli, who might never have said it in the first place.
Today we chat with Andrew Inwood, Global CEO of Coredata, a leading provider of market information and research to the financial markets. Is there a "special sauce" or AI tool that will make you rich?  Tune in to find out.

Stage 3 tax cuts have now been legislated and given Royal assent - yes "L-A-W" as one very famous ex PM used to say.  This week we chat with Frank Drenth, tax specialist from the Institute of Financial Professionals Australia (www.ifpa.com.au) to work out how much extra you're going to get (and yes everyone does!), and some strategies to save on taxes this financial year and next.  Dollars and Making Sense a weekly show about finance, money and investing.