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RBA Cash Rate July 2020: Victoria’s Lockdown Slows The Speed Of Recovery & The Air Is Colder Up High

Today Governor Lowe and the reserve board met and they kept the cash rate on hold. Now the good news story here has been in some of the language that's been coming out from Governor Lowe and also the board in regards to how positive they have felt, and how optimistic they are about where we sit.   Now, they had three obvious...

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RBA Cash Rate June 2020: Swaying on the edge of an economic and property cliff?

Today, Governor Lowe and the Reserve Board met and they kept the cash rate on hold, which as we all know, they will be for the time being. It has been an interesting couple of months. We've obviously gone through March and April with a lot of uncertainty, a lot of unknowns around what was happening. And that caused a lot of pessimism and fear i...

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RBA Cash Rate May 2020: The Three Critical Themes Unfolding In The Economy Right Now — And How They Impact Property Prices!

Today Governor Lowe and the Reserve board met, and they kept the cash rate on hold at 0.25%, so nothing to see there. What I wanted to highlight in regards to some of the activity from the RBA, we did get an update in the middle of May, in terms of how their stimulus package and monetary package they introduced in March is going to work. So, a ...

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‘Talking Up’ Property or Subject Matter Knowledge? – Property Prices in the Short Term

Over the past month the media has latched onto the headline grabbing stories linking the residential property market with the share market “crash” (their words not mine) that hit equity markets across the world due to the Covid-19 and the coronavirus pandemic. Mainstream media have hounded the ‘go to’ economists for their views on what ...

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How To Master The Pillars in Pandemic Times

This podcast was recorded at 10am on Thursday, 9th April 2020.You can listen to it on iTunes, Spotify or Google Podcast There are 10 Asset Selection Tips, 5 Borrowing Power Tips, 5 Cashflow Management Tips and 4 Defence Tips shared in this post. To help you identify them quickly, we've broken down to separate sections. Asset Selection ...

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RBA Cash Rate April 2020: The Coronavirus Lockdown, An Australian Recession And What This Will Mean For The World Economy

Governor Lowe and the Reserve Board met today and they kept the cash rate on hold. But we all know that, right? Because the cash rate is going to remain at 0.25 until such time as we reach unemployment levels of 4.5% and also inflation within that 2 – 3 bandwidth. Now, Governor Lowe and the board are basically saying this could take up to ...

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Podcast Update: Landlord vs Tenants

NOTE: This Facebook LIVE was recorded at 4pm on Thursday, 2nd April 2020. It is an update released right after Episode 278 of our podcast, Coronavirus: Landlord vs Tenants. You can listen to this episode on iTunes, Spotify or TPC's Website. Bryce:   Hi there folks. Bryce Holdaway here and he is Ben Kingsley. We are the hosts of Th...

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COVID-19 & Share Market Analysis

Ben Kingsley:    Hello, Ben Kingsley here, Managing Director of Empower Wealth and I'm here with one of the partners of Empower Wealth advisory, Michael Savy, who's our Chief Investment Officer. So he looks after our Financial Planning team and also over a $100 million dollars of money that we have invested on behalf of our clients....

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UPDATE: Monetary & Fiscal Stimulus Program

Hi, Ben Kingsley here, Managing Director of Empower Wealth and also the co-host of The Property Couch Podcast. In this update I'm going to be talking about three clear areas. The first one is the RBA's Monetary Policy Stimulus Program. I'm also going to be talking about the Government's Stimulus Package, their second round. And finally I'm goin...

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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 strangely is leading experts, Bryce Holdaway, co-host of Location, Location, Location Australia on Foxtel's lifestyle channel, co-host of Escape fr...

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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 : Money FIT

In this tutorial I'm going to be talking to you about Money FIT, which is effectively a question that I'm asking you…. Are you Money FIT? 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 peers. (Note: Click here to log in to MyWealth Portal) Money FIT is ...

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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 fam...

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