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If ignorance or uncertainty makes you fearful of investing, you're missing out on opportunities to increase your wealth and improve your lifestyle

Steve Sammartino explores the internet browser and how direct micropayments using cryptocurrency could assist with allocating revenue efficiently and fairly while leading to new investment opportunities.

Lisa Papachristoforos explains how choosing the right structure for an investment can amplify the total returns it provides.

The way we pay for things is changing - and in a major turnaround, Australians have wiped $6.3 billion off the nation's credit card debt during COVID.

Another massive top up by Fortescue chairman Andrew Forrest headlines this edition of Director Deeds as Alex Gluyas does the rounds of the past month of insider action.

While the government's banking on you spending it, the smarter move would be to commit your cash windfall - courtesy of recently announced tax cuts - to a new or existing savings plan.

I don't normally write personal anecdotes, but something happened this year that has been over 15 years in the making - my mum invested her hard-earned money. It was a big achievement for myself and my grandfather Grampie.

With its share price up over 400 per cent year to date, Alex Gluyas catches up with the founder and CEO of Redbubble, Martin Hosking to discuss his reappointment to the top job in February, what's behind the company's huge growth this year, and what investors should look out for in the short-term.

Plenty of Australians have seen their working week - and income - cut short as a result of the Coronavirus pandemic. But in true Aussie have-a-go style, around 200,000 of these people have turned the situation around, using it as an opportunity to start their own business.

With Adore Beauty undertaking the ASX's biggest IPO this year, Alex Gluyas looks into whether the online beauty retailer's soaring valuation is justified, and if it can replicate the success of the ASX's other e-commerce stars.

Robert Gottliebsen delves into the government's changes to industry, retail and self-managed super funds while discussing why the banks' failure to invest in systems when they were paying high dividends years ago, will cost earnings growth in the future.

With the compulsory employer superannuation guarantee contribution (SGC) amount paid to employees set to increase next year, Lisa Papachristoforos reviews the positives and negatives of the change.

InvestSMART Capped Fee Portfolio quarterly updates for September.

Compared with the ASX, which is heavily weighted to the fortunes of a handful of financial and mining companies, international equities offer a much broader and exciting range of investment opportunities.

After the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to two scientists for their work on CRISPR, Steve Sammartino explains the significance of CRISPR's ability to edit DNA and why thoughtful regulation should be used to unleash its potential in a fair way.

Ahead of its listing on the ASX, Alex Gluyas catches up with the CEO of Zebit, Marc Schneider, who explains the company's unique e-commerce platform with a built-in buy-now-pay-later offering, how it's managing the risk of serving credit-challenged customers in the US, and why it's protected from the crowded US buy-now-pay-later space.