Sara Lucas

Pay only 15% tax on a bigger chunk of your salary Take a look at your super; if you’re getting by on the minimum employer contribution of 9%, why not salary sacrifice an extra 3% and take it up to 12%? Salary sacrifice is simply squirreling a chunk of salary into your tax advantaged super bucket before income tax is calculated.

The party’s over.

While you’re reading this I’ll be in Africa at the Holding Hands Children’s Home, up to my elbows in paint, mud and children’s laughter.

Yesterday, I met a TV journalist, socially.

The chances are you’re reading this post with a fuzzy head if you indulged in Melbourne Cup–a-rama yesterday.

Financial advice is not about “products” or “retirement strategies”.

Sadly, the gender pay gap continues long after you finish work and influences your security in retirement.

Explicit gender discrimination in employment and pay is now illegal, but the lifetime effects of discrimination and the wage gap (which still sits at 17.

If you’re a “Hub Organiser Woman”, the central point around which the family turns, then you probably have tough decisions to make about ageing parents.

I wonder, if we had dinner together and talked about investment, whether shares would be front of mind for you.

You are your own biggest asset and you’re worth more than you think so you’d better make sure you’ve got yourself covered.

In a recent US Prudential survey, more than 50% of women said they feared ending up penniless.