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Australia Surges up Retirement Security Ranks

By holding ground in areas such as quality of life, material well-being, finances and health while other countries fell back, Australia moved up two spots to 5th on the latest Natixis Global Retirement Index. Australia moved up two spots on the latest Natixis Global Retirement Index to 5th after maintaining scores across a series of top-line categories while other developed nations The Netherlands and Germany fell behind.

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Why fear could be holding you back at work

Fear. It is such a primal, automatic, instinctive emotion. Evolutionary psychologists theorise that over the millennia we have genetically bred this fear instinct as natural selection favoured those who better sensed potential danger – they were more likely to survive in the perilous environment they lived in. The more likely you are to be cautious, the less likely you are to take unnecessary risks and stay alive.

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Christmas on credit

Christmas is a time of giving and receiving, but as we approach this most dangerous time of the year for credit cards we’d like to give you a quick refresher on the best ways to use your plastic so you don’t end up with a Christmas hangover of the financial kind.