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A couple we know told us they paid for ongoing professional financial advice & the result was much better financial returns than they were getting beforehand. Cynical, but in the face of forced early retirement for health reasons my wife & I signed up with our own choice of financial advisor 5...

Pasteurising it!!!

Love all the people saying the article is wrong as they had access from unpasteurised milk straight from the cow. But that milk was at worst hours-old. How many bacterial reproduction cycles is that - none to hardly any. The article is criticising the taking of days-old unpasteurised milk -...

Wages may have increased on average 2% more than inflation this past year, but it makes you wonder, how many in this group are wage earners? Only the staff writers???

I love the lie, "Evidence continues to show that slower streets save lives, improve communities, and reduce costs—without meaningfully affecting travel times." That's why maths matters. If you travel half as fast, you'll take twice as long - it's not rocket science! And I assume the evidence...

The basic problem is that Super Companies think it's their money! But it's ours. I am with HESTA, & have had some issues, but they're no worse than the others. One issue is that they routinely (as in deliberately - it's a strategy they use to delay paying out money) reply by SMS or email that...

My financial adviser told me this, & I did this, when I transitioned into retirement last year. I believe it's standard advice/practice. I also read about it in a SDC article earlier this year by a regular financial writer, Noel Whittaker. So this news is out there.