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  • #524 Is Rentvesting Dead? w. Jack Henderson
    Oct 14 2026

    The AFR reckons rentvesting is dead now that negative gearing has been wound back. Jack Henderson reckons the AFR has it backwards, and he's paying $3,700 a week in rent while he says it.

    This one moves fast. Jack explains the valuation method most property investors have never heard of, where a property with two incomes on one title gets valued on its rent instead of on what the neighbours sold for, and walks through the duplex where that difference was worth more than a million dollars. He puts a number on what a dollar of rent is worth in value.

    He gets specific about the off-the-plan settlements he thinks are about to go wrong, and the capital gains tax bill you can get on a property that never went up. And he ends with the single piece of research he tells every young investor to do before they touch anything.

    Language warning. Jack talks the way Jack talks. This one isn't for the school run.

    WHAT YOU'LL GET OUT OF IT

    • Why rentvesting still works without negative gearing, and where it stops making sense

    • The cap rate valuation method, and why it only applies to properties with multiple incomes on one title

    • Jack's duplex, a $500k paper loss that became a gain by not subdividing

    • What a dollar of rent is worth at a 5% cap rate versus a 3% cap rate

    • The off-the-plan settlements about to land 20% under contract price

    • Why depreciation can hand you a CGT bill on a property that didn't grow

    • The only time Jack thinks you should buy brand new

    • What he tells clients who are scared of prices falling further

    • Why the tax narrative looks different once you know corporate tax was 49% in the 80s

    • The question to ask the oldest person you know

    CHAPTERS

    00:10 Is rentvesting dead?
    01:28 The rent increase Jack refused to pay
    02:32 Has the YAM strategy changed since the budget?
    03:52 The duplex: $5.25m, then $4.7m, then $6.5m
    07:47 When valuers use a cap rate
    08:20 What a dollar of rent is worth
    08:52 The Paddington office at a 2.8% cap rate
    10:06 Everyone's feeling battered. What now?
    11:25 If you do nothing, will you get there?
    12:21 Corporate tax was 49% in the 80s
    14:56 Who actually pays the tax in Australia
    15:43 Worried about valuations falling?
    16:08 Off-the-plan carnage
    17:22 The 5% deposit scheme and negative equity
    19:19 The depreciation trap that creates a CGT bill
    21:43 Will more finished properties come to market?
    22:36 The only time to buy brand new
    25:24 De-risking a falling market
    26:13 Has the playbook changed?
    28:09 So, for the AFR readers, is rentvesting dead?
    28:46 Ask the oldest person you know
    31:35 Buy a fast boat

    GUEST LINKS
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    Jack on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jackchenderson/

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    33 mins
  • #523 New Tax Changes Bring Trusts and Bucket Companies Back From the Dead
    Oct 7 2026

    On 12 May the budget killed the bucket company. A 30% minimum tax on trust income was the headline, but the real damage was underneath it, because that tax came with no credit when the money moved on to a company. Stack the two together and business owners were looking at an effective rate over 60% on profit they had already been taxed on once.

    On 3 September the government released draft legislation that changes the picture, and Ben walks through exactly what it does. There is a window, it closes on 1 July 2028, and if you make a fixed election on your trust before then, the 30% minimum tax doesn't apply. The trade is that a discretionary trust stops being discretionary, forever.

    Ben runs the numbers on a business making $400k a year and shows a gap of just under $2 million between two owners doing the same thing in different structures. He also covers the strategy the election kills, which is distributing to your adult kids. And he explains why who owns the shares in your bucket company now matters more than it ever has, with a 22-month window that just started.

    WHAT YOU'LL GET OUT OF IT

    • What a bucket company is and why business owners built their wealth around it

    • How the budget got the effective tax rate on trust distributions above 60%

    • What the 3 September draft legislation changes, and when it's expected to pass

    • The fixed election, how it works, why it's permanent, and the two things that reset it

    • A business making $400k a year, in a company versus personally, over 10 and 30 years

    • Why distributing to adult children is now off the table

    • Who should own the shares in your bucket company

    • What happens to anyone who starts a business after 1 July 2028

    • The sequence to follow before the window closes

    CHAPTERS

    00:06 Is the bucket company dead?
    01:10 What a bucket company actually does
    02:53 What the budget did on 12 May
    05:00 The 3 September draft legislation
    06:13 The election window closes 1 July 2028
    08:15 A discretionary trust that isn't discretionary
    10:30 Plan ten years out, not twelve months
    11:35 If you start a business after July 2028
    14:21 Ben paid himself nothing for three years
    15:45 The numbers: $200k a year into a bucket company
    18:33 The adult kids strategy is finished
    20:44 Income versus distribution, and payroll tax
    21:27 Who should own the bucket company
    22:46 Stress test your accountant
    23:23 The 22-month window
    24:02 Stamp duty and why the states said no
    25:57 The sequence to follow before the deadline
    28:00 Don't die wondering
    29:20 Wrap

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    30 mins
  • Should You Move to Singapore to Save Tax?
    Oct 1 2026

    Every second call at the moment ends the same way. The budget has tightened the screws, the pay rise didn't move the needle, so what if we just moved to Singapore? Or Dubai. Or Hong Kong.

    Ben and Siobhan ran the numbers, and the first thing they found is that Australia is a lower tax country than the UK, Canada, New Zealand and most of Europe. The catch is where we collect it. Almost 43% of every tax dollar in Australia comes from personal income, one of the heaviest reliances on personal income tax in the developed world, and that is exactly why it feels the way it does.

    From there it gets practical. What you take home on $100k, $250k, $500k and $1 million in Sydney versus Singapore, Hong Kong and Dubai. What those countries charge you instead, from a 60% stamp duty on foreigners to private everything. How you actually get in.

    The tax bill Australia hands you on the way out. And the two residency tests the ATO uses to decide whether you really left, because the people getting caught aren't the ones who moved, they're the ones who pretended to.

    WHAT YOU'LL GET OUT OF IT

    • Why Australia's total tax take is below the OECD average, and why it feels worse than that

    • Take-home pay on $100k, $250k, $500k and $1m across Australia, Singapore, Hong Kong and Dubai

    • Zero capital gains, zero on dividends and zero on interest, and what these countries charge instead

    • The employment pass, the top talent pass and the golden visa, and what each one costs to qualify for

    • Monaco, the Caribbean, Vanuatu and the other places that make the list

    • The deemed disposal tax bill you pay when you leave, without selling anything

    • Source tax versus residency tax, and why your Australian property still gets taxed

    • The six-month test and the centre of vital economic interest

    • Who relocating actually works for, and who ends up worse off

    • The tax-smart moves available to you if you stay

    CHAPTERS

    00:07 Should you move to Singapore to save tax?
    01:33 Australia is below the OECD average, with one big but
    03:50 Why the pay rise stopped moving the needle
    04:30 Singapore, Hong Kong and Dubai, why those three
    05:46 Take-home pay on $100k, $250k, $500k and $1m
    08:13 One year in Dubai equals five years here
    09:22 Zero CGT, zero on dividends, zero on interest
    10:09 Tax residency is the whole game
    11:23 How these countries tax you instead
    12:13 Getting in: employment passes, talent passes and golden visas
    15:37 Monaco, the Caribbean and Vanuatu
    19:21 The deemed disposal bill on the way out
    20:20 Source tax versus residency tax
    24:19 The six-month test and centre of vital economic interest
    26:16 Line-ball residency cases
    28:37 Who this actually works for
    29:38 Is it worth six months away from your family?
    30:36 The tax-smart moves if you stay
    32:33 Wrap

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    33 mins
  • The Post-Budget Investing Playbook w. Hugh Robertson
    Sep 24 2026

    Hugh Robertson reckons the world changed for Aussie investors on 12 May. For years the playbook
    was simple. Earn well, borrow, negatively gear into residential property and let the market do the
    rest. The budget took a fair chunk of that off the table, and now a lot of people with money to put to
    work are asking the same question. What's the play now?
    Hugh runs Centaur Financial Services, sits on the Barron's Top 100 adviser list, and has been a
    mate of Ben's for over a decade, which means he doesn't get to be diplomatic. In this one he walks
    through exactly what his firm changed in client portfolios after the budget, why they've gone
    underweight Australian shares, and the asset classes they're now allocating to that they never
    touched before.
    We also get into the commercial property pitch flooding everyone's feed, and why two emerging
    markets ETFs can hold completely different countries. Hugh explains what big tech raising debt tells
    you about where the US market sits, and puts Ben through the maths question about a 50% fall that
    trips up almost everyone. Then the honest bit on stock picking, why only around one in ten active
    managers beats the index over a decade, and what Hugh thinks matters most for investors over the
    next six to 12 months.

    CHAPTERS (raw recording times, re-map to the final cut before publishing)
    00:00 Intro and the list that actually counts
    01:27 The world changed on 12 May
    03:38 Where ambitious investors go now
    04:06 The commercial property trap
    06:48 What Centaur changed in its portfolios after the budget
    08:17 The nanny state and the aspirational investor
    11:00 How much the CGT changes drove the shift to global
    12:11 The fully franked dividend obsession

    13:12 Total return and where wealth sits once trusts are gone
    14:26 ETF, managed fund or direct
    15:17 Investing at all-time highs
    16:58 AI after the picks and shovels
    18:49 Emerging markets and the South Korea trade
    20:09 Two emerging markets ETFs, two very different baskets
    21:01 Staying in the US and backing the jockey
    22:06 Same profit, half the price
    22:47 Infrastructure as inflation protection
    24:09 Locked-up money and closed-end funds
    24:44 Private markets, evergreen funds and secondaries
    25:59 Comparison is the thief of joy
    26:42 Is the US market overcooked?
    28:10 The canary in the coal mine
    29:20 SpaceX, IPOs and Aussie super money
    31:07 Where the opportunity actually is
    33:47 Global small caps and the information edge
    36:21 Only one in ten active managers beats the index
    37:22 Accumulators want volatility, retirees don't
    38:09 The maths test almost everyone fails
    39:17 GFC lessons and the free lunch
    40:44 When DIY stops making sense
    42:52 Boring portfolio, interesting life
    43:34 Don't get mad at your adviser when markets fall
    45:06 The most important thing for the next six to 12 months
    46:29 Why not to ask AI for financial advice


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    48 mins
  • A Six-Figure Tax Bill and No Way to Pay It [Money Diaries w. Maddy and James]
    Sep 17 2026

    Maddy and James are both senior, both earning well, and last year they opened a tax bill with six figures on it and no idea how they were going to pay it.

    The problem was never income. It was employer equity. Every vest built the paper wealth and the tax liability at the same time, and they'd been covering it by selling shares and draining savings, three times over. Then they upgraded the house, sold more stock to fund the stamp duty, and the cycle got worse.

    This is how they got out of what they call tax jail, and what changed once they did. Twelve months on they're comfortably up six figures, they've got pre-approval on an investment property, an ETF portfolio, and they're talking to architects about the renovation.

    WHAT YOU'LL GET OUT OF IT

    • Why a bigger salary and an equity comp plan created a problem instead of solving one

    • The trap of selling shares to pay the tax on shares, over and over

    • Concentration risk when your income and your portfolio come from the same company

    • Why they held every vest for years, and the moment that changed

    • Getting burned by a previous adviser, and what they would look for now

    • How the budget capital gains changes made them pause an investment property

    • Ten years of lost super across four funds, and how it finally got fixed

    • Why top few percent earners still end up shuffling money at the end of the month

    • Debt recycling, offsets and the strategies they had never heard of

    CHAPTERS

    00:03 Rapid fire round

    07:09 Intro

    07:35 Senior, well paid, and still stretched

    09:53 The moment the tax bill landed

    10:32 How they found out, and the options they weighed

    11:35 How they'd been handling it before

    12:43 What Sunday night money chats looked like

    14:16 The moment they decided to act

    15:05 Concentration risk in employer shares

    18:00 What it would have cost to keep going

    18:58 Getting burned by a previous adviser

    21:43 Selling vested shares, then versus now

    25:12 What they used to believe about money

    27:25 What surprised them about the process

    29:47 The decision they now make differently

    31:27 What used to keep them up at night

    32:43 What's possible now that wasn't 12 months ago

    33:29 A refinance in five days

    33:59 What's different day to day

    36:19 Ten years of lost super, sorted in weeks

    37:07 What actually changed about their lifestyle

    38:41 Sunday night money chats now

    39:39 Why they paused the investment property after the budget

    42:11 What Ian said that stuck

    44:00 What makes the fees worth paying

    45:27 Advice to their 21 year old selves


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    40 mins
  • #519 70,000 Australian Kids Are Already Investing w. Craig Keary
    Sep 10 2026

    There are more than 70,000 kids' investment accounts sitting on one Australian platform, and it's the fastest growing part of the business. Craig Keary is the new CEO of Raiz, and before that he spent thirty years across HSBC, CBA, Westpac and AMP Capital, plus a stint running Selfwealth.

    Craig shares what he's seeing across 350,000 active accounts, including what people actually did with their money through the tariff volatility and the Middle East tensions, and whether the budget changed anyone's behaviour at all. We also get into why younger Australians have almost no home country bias, and the habit Craig reckons costs investors more than fees ever will.

    WHAT YOU'LL GET OUT OF IT

    • What 350,000 accounts show about how people behave when markets get ugly

    • Why kids' accounts are growing faster than anything else, and what parents are getting right

    • Whether the budget's property tax changes have shifted anyone's investment strategy

    • The generational split between global investors and franking credit hunters

    • Why dollar cost averaging beats trying to pick your moment

    • What investing looked like thirty years ago at 2.5% commissions

    • Whether today's tech giants are just the railways of a century ago

    • The ego problem that quietly wrecks good portfolios

    CHAPTERS

    00:16 Intro

    00:56 What's changed in markets and the world

    02:27 Time in the market beats timing it

    03:09 What 350,000 accounts actually show

    03:44 Why kids' accounts are the fastest growing thing

    05:40 Has the budget changed anyone's behaviour

    08:12 Gen Z go global, boomers want franking credits

    09:30 Why visible progress keeps people invested

    10:30 The headlines versus your actual balance

    11:48 AI, tech and whether this time is structural

    14:19 US stocks coming to the platform

    15:19 What investors should get right from here

    17:30 Don't chase the trend

    19:00 Emergency funds and why they protect the strategy

    19:40 Dollar cost averaging and round-ups

    21:00 How Craig built his money knowledge over 30 years

    22:30 Don't let your ego wreck your investing

    23:11 Travel, Waymo and an expensive lesson

    23:51 What diversification actually means


    CRAIG KEARY, RAIZ INVEST

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    26 mins
  • #518 25 Jobs, One Breakdown, 100,000 Followers w. Matt Lakajev
    Sep 3 2026

    Matt Lakajev dropped out of school, got kicked out of home more than once, and worked 25 different jobs before having a breakdown at 27 that sent him back to his parents' place. He then googled how to make the most money without a degree, found sales, and built an audience of more than 100,000 people on the platform everyone claims to hate.

    This one's for anyone in a senior role who knows their network matters but has never posted a thing. Matt gets specific on why LinkedIn still converts better than anywhere else, what AI screening is quietly doing to your job applications, and why hitting post for the first time takes most people about three years.

    WHAT YOU'LL GET OUT OF IT

    • Why LinkedIn works despite being, in Matt's words, a Windows 95 sitting next to a MacBook

    • The one thing you can't fake on LinkedIn that you can fake everywhere else

    • What AI resume screening means for how you actually find your next role

    • Trust leverage, and why companies hire the safe 80% performer over the superstar

    • How to handle tall poppy syndrome and the feeling that posting is just showing off

    • Word for word, what your first post should say

    • The kind of knowledge AI can never replicate, and why it's the only thing worth posting

    • The three mistakes that make experienced people look like beginners online

    CHAPTERS

    01:20 Intro

    01:42 The 27 years Matt calls his loser era

    02:38 Why LinkedIn, of all places

    04:30 What actually drove the growth

    06:48 The one platform where people can't lie

    09:30 Why some people post and most never will

    11:22 The opportunity for senior professionals

    12:30 AI is screening you out before a human sees you

    13:30 Trust leverage and Dunbar's number

    14:30 Why hiring is really about de-risking

    16:09 Where to start if you've never posted

    17:30 Messages people actually reply to

    18:56 Open curiosity loops

    19:30 Tall poppy syndrome

    21:21 Two rules for posting

    21:55 Exactly what your first post should say

    23:50 Is posting just showing off

    26:43 What to post, and the formats that work

    28:30 The knowledge AI can't copy

    31:43 Post length and image size

    32:26 Three mistakes to avoid

    MATT LAKAJEV, SEVEN FIGURE CREATORS

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    35 mins
  • #517 I Was About to Buy a $130,000 Car [Money Diaries w. Nada and Adrian]
    Aug 27 2026

    Nada and Adrian came to Pivot with one property and a plan to buy another. Adrian also had a list of his own: refinance the house, buy the second property, buy a $130,000 car, then take a holiday. His words for how that would have gone are not repeatable in a description.

    Three months in, the plan looks nothing like that. Two weeks after their strategy session the federal budget landed and changed the maths on the second property entirely, so they went back to the drawing board and ended up somewhere they'd never seriously considered. This is an honest look at what the first few months of getting advice actually feels like, including the admin, the arguments about a $2,000 suit, and the moment it clicked.

    WHAT YOU'LL GET OUT OF IT

    • What their plan was before they got advice, and what it would have cost them

    • How the budget forced a full rethink two weeks after the strategy was set

    • Choosing shares over a second property, and how they got comfortable with it

    • Aligning as a couple when one of you wants to travel and the other wants a car

    • The money myths they both believed, including that earning more means keeping more

    • Planning around starting a family and the income dip nobody accounts for

    • What surprised them most about the process

    • What they'd tell someone who thinks they don't have enough money for advice

    CHAPTERS

    00:13 Rapid fire round

    17:59 Intro

    20:34 What was on their mind before they got advice

    24:38 The turning point

    27:02 What staying stuck would have cost them

    28:08 What surprised them about the process

    31:19 The moment it clicked

    33:17 How they talk about money now

    36:02 The frustration that's gone

    36:49 What they're working towards

    38:34 Why the budget made them choose shares over property

    40:11 What Reece said that stuck

    41:08 Advice for anyone on the fence

    43:10 What if you think you can't afford advice

    45:45 Advice to their 21 year old selves

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