With a growing array of credit and insurance products floating around Australia’s financial ether, product comparison sites are increasing in popularity with consumers.

Most articles that promise words of wisdom as to how you can protect your investment property portfolio focus on things like insurances, cashflow buffers and ‘the perfect’ loan product. Our approach is a little different.

Speculation abounds as to what the Reserve Bank will do when they convene next week to make a decision on interest rates. Up, down or nowhere for the fifteenth consecutive month in a row?

Even though the GFC is now a fading acronym in most economists’ minds, the effects of 2008’s worldwide glitch in the fiscal matrix are still having a few ripple effects in Australia’s banking sector.