Happy New Year, yes it is February however as this is our first newsletter of 2025 it seems like an appropriate greeting! And just like that the RBA has dropped the cash rate after thirteen rate increases and fifteen months of keeping them steady at 4.35%. What happens now? It is generally anticipated that the…
Welcome to this month’s Dominion Finance Newsletter. We hope everyone is faring well with a warmer winter as we enter the last few weeks before Spring arrives. With so much discussion around the RBA decision this week, the central bank after meeting yesterday and today has announced it will hold the current 12-year high cash…
Welcome to this month’s Dominion Finance Newsletter This month, we’re talking about retirement. As 3,000 Australians retire each week, it’s a topic that affects many of us. The most pressing question for many is: have I saved enough? The Association of Super Funds of Australia (ASFA) regularly updates its retirement income standard, which shows how…
Happy October! It’s hard to believe that we are in the back end of the year. The weather is warming up, and daylight saving has commenced. Summer is on its way. Here is a quick recap of the Canberra property market for last month which was relatively stable, with median house prices remaining steady and…
Welcome to this month’s Dominion Finance newsletter. We are excited to announce that we have moved to our new office at Level 1, 221 London Crt Canberra City. Our new office is brighter and more modern, and we are confident that it will provide a better experience for us and our clients. Reserve Bank of…
Welcome to the June 2023 Dominion Finance Newsletter! We appreciate your continued support and trust as we navigate through the final month of the financial year together. In this ever-evolving economic landscape, inflation rates continue to rise, prompting the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) to make adjustments to the cash rate. Experts predict further increases in…
Welcome to this month’s Dominion Finance Newsletter for May 2023 There was so much speculation in the media and with the finance experts whether the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) would maintain the current cash rate or raise it at least one more time, we thought we might give it a rest and talk…
Welcome to this month’s Dominion Finance April Newsletter. The Reserve Bank of Australia’s Board met today and for the first time since May 2022 they kept the cash rate on hold at 3.60%. There were mixed views on the state of the economy, with some experts predicting that the RBA would raise rates for an…
Welcome to Autumn 2023…just like that days are getting shorter and summer holidays memories are beginning to fade. This month we are going to talk about the incentives that banks and lenders are offering to customers to try and attract more business. These incentives are predominantly a cash lump sum, or it could be free…
Welcome Welcome Welcome to 2023 Holidays and summer fun times are over, and it is back to work, and for the Reserve Bank that can only mean one thing…rates are on the way up once more. No doubt they saw our spending over the Black Friday, Boxing Day, and January sales and thought they need…