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Money Stretch: Empowering Households to Make Informed Financial Decisions

Ben Kingsley here, and in this MoneySTRETCH tutorial video, I'm introducing you to MoneySTRETCH. Now, MoneySTRETCH is one of our money management tools, that's an interactive tool inside the web or desktop version of the Moorr platform, and we do recommend you use Chrome to access that. This tool is solving for the biggest problem that most househ...

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MyWealth Portal Tutorials: MoneySTRETCH

(Editor's Note: MyWealth Portal rebranded to Moorr in July 2022) Did you know? The average Australian household has just four and a half months of savings before their money runs out! That’s right, the average household has only $28,602 in savings, yet spends on average $74,301 a year (source: finder.com.au and ABS 2016 census data) I...

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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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MyWealth Portal Tutorials : Expenses & Borrowings

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 Daniel and Rebecca, the example clients that we've been using to date. You...

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MyWealth Portal Tutorials : Income & Assets

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 and we move across here. (Note: Click here to log in to MyWealth Port...

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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 instructions. So...

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MyWealth Portal Tutorials : Personal Information and Goals

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 Money SMARTS system on it. What I thought was producing these short tutorial videos to help you understand how you can use the MyWealth Portal to implement your Money SMARTS ...

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New Features Introduced for Money SMARTS!

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 our MyWealth Portal, which is free for all of our customers and in fact, free for the public to use. And that is our Money FIT section. (Sign in to MyWealth Portal here: www.ew.moneysmarts.com.au)...

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Bryce and Ben: “The Money Men”

It's true. On Channel 7's Sunrise earlier this month, Bryce and Ben were dubbed "The Money Men" on National TV after shining the (much needed) light on how exactly regular Aussies can take charge — and, more importantly, stay in control — of their finances!! And it doesn't just come down to the obvious (and often forgotten!)... spend less t...

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Money SMARTS: 7 Steps to Wealth

Do you want to make money simple again? Have you ever wondered whether there's a simple way to manage your money that optimises and minimises the amount of interest you pay to the bank while trapping more surplus and giving you peace of mind... all while committing no more than 10 minutes a month to manage it? And wouldn't it be great if such a ...

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The Property Couch Chat with Paul Clitheroe

  We usually don't repost the episodes in our podcast, The Property Couch, but our 200th Episode is a milestone! And for our milestone, we got a legendary Money Guru that changed a lot of Australian households back in the 90s. Yes, we are talking about none other than Paul Clitheroe! As the host of the show Money on the Nine Networ...

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