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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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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"I want to help the kids, how do I start?' It's one of the most common questions we get on the podcast, and it's time to tackle it head on.

Dr Doug Turek of Minchin Moore joins Associate Editor, James Kirby in this episode.

In today's show, we cover:

• How to start an investment for a child
• A smart approach to school fees
• What to do about HECS
• Helping with a first home purchase
  
  
  

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The ASX 200 is enjoying a solid earnings season, but the healthcare sector is shooting the lights out. Believe it or not, the market sector that offered the fastest way to lose money last year is suddenly red hot.

Jun Bei-Liu of the Ten Cap Alpha Plus funds joins Associate Editor, James Kirby in this episode.

In today's show, we cover:

• Up 25% in a month! - Healthcare stocks are back
• Why the healthcare blue chips can keep rising
• Will CSL ever be Australia's biggest stock again?
• Earnings season recap- where to now for banks and miners?
  
  

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Here comes Spring! Welcome to most, except perhaps to residential property sellers, who will be adding stock to an already bloated market where prices are falling.

Louis Christopher of SQM Research joins Associate Editor, James Kirby in this episode.

In today's show, we cover:

• How bad is the listings overhang? 
• Why banks may have forecasts wrong on property prices
• Yes, yields are rising, but are rents actually lifting too? 
• The 40-year mortgage...should you ever? 

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