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Owners of home made famous in Twilight movies rake in $140K a year by renting property to obsessed fans

A pair of homeowners have turned a humble Oregon movie landmark into a money-making juggernaut by renting the property to Twilight-obsessed fans.  Amber and Dean Neufeld

Equity Investments

Pakistan’s public debt spiral

Listen to article KARACHI: Those who look carefully at Pakistan’s 2025-26 budget will not fail to notice a startling detail: the total expenditure on debt servicing and

Mutual Funds

Index funds were meant to simplify investing. Why are they overwhelming investors now?

Image credit: iStock Synopsis With so many index funds, ETFs, active schemes, direct and regular plans, advisors, distributors, and DIY apps, investors are spoilt for

Real Estate

NSW to penalise real estate agents over AI-generated photos

Real estate agents using artificial intelligence and apps to digitally eliminate rental flaws, such as mould, or add non-existent features, like fake natural sunlight, have

Equity Investments

Generating tax efficiency in debt-oriented funds

Earlier, investments in debt mutual funds (MFs) had indexation benefit vis-à-vis long-term capital gains (LTCG) tax, making investments tax-efficient. If you stay invested for three

Economics

Ausgold unveils robust economics for Katanning

The Katanning gold project. Image: Ausgold Ausgold has released promising results from the Katanning gold project in Western Australia through a definitive feasibility study (DFS), showing

Mutual Funds

Is Vanguard Utilities Index Fund ETF the Smartest Investment You Can Make Today?

Electric utilities are set to see materially increased demand for electricity. The easiest way to invest in the utility sector is to pick a diversified

Equity Investments

‘Can my equity release provider increase its interest rate?’

In September last year, I asked my equity release provider, Nationwide, for additional funds to allow me to help my daughter with a house purchase. 

Real Estate

Liberty Rock Property names new managing director

Boutique private office and wealth advisory firm Liberty Rock has appointed Paul Finch as managing director of Liberty Rock Property, the firm’s specialist property advisory

Equity Investments

Sustainable development, climate crisis and debt

‘It is easy to be pessimistic about multilateralism nowadays. Recent international gatherings– including the 2023 Sustainable Development Goals Summit, the 2024 Summit of the Future,