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Coronavirus & Property Outlook – Ep. 276 of The Property Couch Podcast

This podcast was recorded at 10am on Thursday, 19th March 2020.You can listen to it on iTunes, Spotify or Google Podcast. Welcome to The Property Couch where each week you get to listen to two of us leading experts, Bryce Holdaway, co-host of Location, Location, Location Australia on Foxtel's lifestyle channel, co-host of Escape from the City o...

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COVID-19 and What to Expect in Australia’s Property Market

Hi, Ben Kingsley here, Managing Director of Empower Wealth and I want to give you a quick update in terms of what's happening in the property market right now. Now we all know that we've been impacted currently and also our future movements will be impacted by the Coronavirus. But what's interesting is actually happening in the property market...

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MyWealth Portal Tutorials: MoneyFIT

(Editor’s Note: MyWealth Portal rebranded to Moorr in July 2022) In this tutorial I'm going to be talking to you about MoneyFIT, which is effectively a question that I'm asking you… Are you MoneyFIT? Well, what do you mean by that? Well, what we're trying to do is give you an idea of how you can compare yourself against your peer...

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MyWealth Portal Tutorials: MoneySMARTS

(Editor's Note: MyWealth Portal rebranded to Moorr in July 2022.) I'm really excited to be doing this tutorial because we're getting down into the MoneySMARTS section of MyWealth Portal. Now remember, you've got your manual which is the best-seller book, Make Money Simple Again. We've sent you your manual (in your email), so make sure you get f...

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MyWealth Portal Tutorials: Expenses & Borrowings

(Editor’s Note: MyWealth Portal rebranded to Moorr in July 2022.) Hello, in this tutorial video, we're going to be talking about expenses and borrowings as part of the MyWealth Portal. Borrowing is part of our ABCD fundamentals so it’s pretty critical to get it right. Let me unpack this a bit more. So here we are in the dashboard for D...

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MyWealth Portal Tutorials: Income & Assets

(Editor’s Note: MyWealth Portal rebranded to Moorr in July 2022.) In this tutorial, we're going to be focusing in on the incomes and the assets section of the MyWealth portal. And it’s pretty exciting because this is now where your dashboard is going to start to show some currency around all that information. So let's click on income ...

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MyWealth Portal Tutorials: How to Log In

(Editor’s Note: MyWealth Portal rebranded to Moorr in July 2022.) Hi Ben Kingsley here. In this tutorial video about MyWealth Portal, I'm going to teach you how to actually get into MyWealth Portal for the very first time. Now it's really easy. By now, you would have been sent an email and inside that email there's a couple of instru...

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MyWealth Portal Tutorials: Personal Information and Goals

(Editor's Note: MyWealth Portal rebranded to Moorr in July 2022) Good day, welcome to the first video in this tutorial series around organizing and setting up and becoming familiar with your new MyWealth Portal and then organizing your MoneySMARTS system on it. What I thought was producing these short tutorial videos to help you understand ...

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RBA Cash Rate March 2020: The Coronavirus Spreads Right Across The Economy

Today, the Reserve Board met – and wow, it would have been a challenging and interesting meeting to be at for this March decision. Effectively, the market was pricing in at a 90% chance of a rate cut, and they got it. So the cash rate has moved by 25 basis points down to 0.5%. Now, there was already a fairly good argument as to why they neede...

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RBA Cash Rate – February 2020

On this first Tuesday of February as part of the new 2020s, the new decade, the RBA had a tough decision to make today. They had some really positive economic data flowing through from the end of 2019 that consisted of a really good unemployment story. It also said that retail spending had at a bounce in November, so that was positive. Ultimately,...

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New Features Introduced for MoneySMARTS!

Good day, Ben Kingsley here, Managing Director of Empower Wealth and I am thrilled to be able to share with you one of the latest features we have on Moorr, which is free for all of our customers and in fact, free for the public to use. And that is our MoneyFIT section. (Sign in to Moorr here: my.moorr.com.au) Now you probably got a question mark ...

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Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from the Empower Wealth Team!

Hi everyone and Merry Christmas to all! In this year’s 2019 Christmas message, I wanted to focus on a theme around financial peace. I mean, the year has been challenging for some —a bit of economic uncertainty, a bit of job uncertainty — but the bright spot in the second half of the year has definitely been the property market. And that hopef...

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RBA Cash Rate – December 2019

Today Governor Lowe and the reserve board met for the final time in 2019 and they kept the cash rate on hold at 0.75%. Now, in 2019 we saw three rate cuts. And for all of those people who love the data, what's interesting about that is between August 2016 and May 2019 — 34 months — the cash rate was on a hold at 1.5%. So they've definitely trie...

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