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Inflation and retirement: why 'safe' can be the riskiest choice

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Inflation and retirement: why 'safe' can be the riskiest choice

Keeping your retirement savings in cash feels safe, but with prices up 4.3% over the past year a term deposit can quietly go backwards after tax. Here is what inflation really does to a retirement pot, and how to protect the part of your income that is not already indexed.

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Noel in the News: card surcharges vanish on 1 October — who really pays?

• cost of living • credit cards • inflation • Noel in the News • nw-curated • source-noel-news

Noel in the News: card surcharges vanish on 1 October — who really pays?

Credit card surcharges are banned from 1 October, but Noel Whittaker warns the $1.8 billion cost won't simply disappear. Here's where he expects it to turn up instead — and what to watch.

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