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How Australians are losing retirement returns

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 8 AUG 2022
... Australians are missing out on potential retirement returns by not regularly salary sacrificing, according to new research by Finder. A Finder survey has shown 86% of Australians don't top up their super fund regularly. What's more, it found only one ...

Reserve Bank shocks with hawkish 50bp increase

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUN 2022
... spending evolved given the increasing pressure on households' budgets from higher inflation and interest rate increases. Finder head of consumer research Graham Cook said this cash rate hike alone could cost the average homeowner almost $2000 a year. ...

Reserve Bank tipped to hike rates again

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 6 JUN 2022
... tomorrow's Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) decision, the vast majority anticipate the central bank to jack up cash rates. A Finder survey has said that 86% of its expert panelists believe the cash rate will change tomorrow and 28% say there will ...

RBA weighs controversial pre-election rate rise

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 2 MAY 2022
... that, we expect further hikes to 1.00% by end-2022 and 1.50% by end 2023." On the likelihood of an interest rate rise, a Finder RBA survey found 84% of experts expect a cash rate move by August. Moreover, experts agree that a rate hike is necessary to ...

Generational home ownership gap widens

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAR 2022
... young Aussies living with mum and dad much longer than previous generations. A survey of more than 1000 Australians by Finder sought to find out how old they were when they reached major life milestones. The survey shows the number of people buying a ...

Aussies shell out $51m on crypto fees

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 31 JAN 2022
... have forked out $50.9 million on cryptocurrency trading fees as more intend to invest in this asset class. According to Finder, Bitcoin charges a fee of 0.6% based on the purchase price for parcels less than $10,000, while some exchanges charge as much ...

Economists expect a rate rise: Finder

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 31 JAN 2022
... one in five experts (19%) expect it to happen in the first half of the year. Graham Cooke, head of consumer research at Finder, said there has been a seismic shift in expectations of a rate rise in 2022. "A rate rise this year has moved from an 'impossibility' ...

Consumers lose out on IP changes

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 27 SEP 2021
... from the significant life insurance reforms that are just days away. This is according to a survey from comparison website Finder, which canvassed more than 1000 respondents. On October 1, several changes to income protection insurance will come into ...

One in four Aussies have no super account

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 13 SEP 2021
A new survey conducted by Finder has revealed that one in four Australians do not have a superannuation account. Finder surveyed 1004 Australians, finding that 24% - approximately 4.6 million people - have no super account. The research found that of ...

Lying rife in life insurance applications

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 9 JUL 2021
... Australians have lied on their life insurance application to get a cheaper policy, new research shows. Comparison site Finder's latest research revealed 3.8 million people have lied on their life insurance application. Men were found to be more likely ...