Justine Davies

Justine has more than fifteen years’ experience in the finance industry, including ten years as a financial planner and five as a finance journalist, and is the author of four books and hundreds of articles. Increasing the financial literacy of all Australians is her passion.

Margin Loans - January 30th

Approved stock numbers creeping back up

Post-GFC, margin loans have been out of favour with many investors. From a peak of 248,000 margin lending client accounts in December 2007, the most recent Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) statistics indicate that client numbers…

First Home Buyers - January 30th

National house prices rise

According to Australian Property Monitors? http://apm.com.au/ December Quarterly House Price Report, there was a uniform growth in house prices across all capital cities over the December quarter, as well as an increase in the median house…

Online Share Trading - January 15th

Should you use CFDs for trading?

Contributed by Ric Spooner, Chief Market analyst at CMC Markets CFDs are actually quite a simple concept. They allow you to trade on whether the price of a financial instrument like a share will go up…

Online Banking - January 15th

Survey: Consumers want their banking to get smarter

An international survey of smartphone consumers by predictive analytics and decision management software company, FICO, has found that many transactors want to do much more mobile banking than most of today's smartphone apps permit. While the…

Opinions - March 28th

What to do when you win the lotto

Our Finance Editor, Justine Davies, joined 612 ABC radio this week to discuss lotto wins - and how to avoid losing them! This is what they talked about… “Winning a lotto jackpot is rare - the odds…

Business Credit Cards - March 14th

Rewards are there for savvy business credit card users

A credit card is often an important cashflow tool for many businesses and when linked to a good rewards program, savvy business owners can reap real benefit. This is particularly true for those who pay off…

Superannuation - February 27th

Sunsuper Becomes First Super Fund to Launch MySuper

In mid-February, Sunsuper became the first super fund in Australia to secure approval from APRA to launch a MySuper product in 2013.

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