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Melbourne’s wealthiest suburbs by average annual income have been identified by the Australian Taxation Office.

Spreading the wealth: Where Melbourne’s highest income earners live

Toorak is still home to Melbourne’s most cashed-up residents, but as working from home becomes more commonplace, incomes are rising in outer regions, including Mount Macedon.

  • Benjamin Preiss

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It is now far more challenging than ever for investors to obtain reasonable returns from low-risk investments.

A few options to help in your search for income

Low interest rates have a flip side for those chasing good yield

  • Reuben Zelwer
The wealth gender gap has closed substantially over the past 12 years, new research shows

Women closing the gap with men in wealth stakes

While individual wealth has grown since the global financial crisis and men are still wealthier, on average, than women, the gap is not as wide.

  • John Collett
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Think you're well off? This is how you compare to everyone else

For the first time ever, Australians are holding more debt than they are earning in income, as households battle to keep on top of rising costs.

  • Shane Wright, Mark Stehle, Nigel Gladstone and Reginal Sengkey
Data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics offers new insights into the changing wealth of households.

Revealed: The households with surging wealth and the households standing still

The wealth of the average Australian household has surged past $1 million but low-income families have not seen any increase for more than a decade.

  • Shane Wright and Eryk Bagshaw
An allocation to high-yield bonds can provide both diversification of a domestically biased portfolio as well as an improvement its overall risk profile.

Generating fixed income in today’s low-interest world

With interest rates at historic lows, there are ways for investors to diversify their income sources and generate improved yield.

  • Vivek Bommi
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Expect more instability unless we address inequality

Expect more instability unless we address inequality

Australia dodged the recession bullet that came with the GFC, but rising inequality hit us hard.

  • Crispin Hull
Budget surplus an illusion hiding a problematic deficit

Budget surplus an illusion hiding a problematic deficit

The underlying budget is in deep deficit, and its sustainability and, indeed, the sustainability of priority services is problematic.

  • Jon Stanhope and Adrian Makeham-Kirchner & Khalid Ahmed

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