Banks have a financial, and regulational duty called "Know your customer", established to avoid a number of historical problems occurring again, such as money laundering, terrorism financing,...

For diversification against local currency's inflation, you have fundamentally 3 options: Buy goods, that will be of demand during inflation Forex: change your $AU into eg. UK pound, or US$ before ...

Depending what your timeframe preferences are, here are a couple of options: Stock indexes: as per Fool's investing guide, historically this had the highest return / risk ratio. On a 5-year horizont, ...

Corporate restructuring makes everything a flux, so you might as well revisit some core fundamental questions. Here's how to do this professionally: Start floating your CV now. Line up interviews in ...

Fool's 13 steps to invest is a good starting point. Specifically, IFF all your credit cards are paid, and you made sure you've got no outstanding liabilities (that also accrues interest), stock ...

This depends entirely on the kind of "IT" you're doing. A couple of examples to illuminate how wide the term is: Computer support: expense Online banking: basic functionality is expense, but ability ...

Major things to consider: What is the interest of your student debt? How does that compare to other investing vehicles? If the AER of your student loan is >= 5%, clearing that could be the most ...

If this will be your sole income for the year, going self-employed is the best way to do this: The US company can write your pay-check off as a standard expense Personal allowance from HMRC allows ...

Assets are many, eg. currencies, buildings, real estate, vehicles, inventories, equipment, precious metals, etc. Stocks are a special kind of assets, where you hold a bit of the underlying company (...

Here's a quick&dirty way to go about insurance: Take the probability of event occurring over given timeframe (say, 10 years). With Identity theft, this includes: You compromise your password by ...

First of all, make sure you have all your credit cards paid in full -the compounding interests on those can zero out returns on any of your private investments. Fundamentally, there are 2 major parts ...

Other than the possibility of minimal entry price being prohibitively high, there's no reason why you couldn't participate in any global trading whatsoever. Most ETFs, and indeed, stockbrokers allows ...

Almost every online datasources provide historical prices on given company / index's performance; from this, you can easily calculate "standard deviation" by yourself. With that said, standard ...