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The Money Puzzle

The Money Puzzle

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Unlock your wealth potential with The Money Puzzle.

Featuring two power-packed episodes each week packed with smart money-making strategies, from superannuation to investing in shares, plus in-depth analysis of property markets.

Get tips from leading experts and practical tools to help build lasting wealth.

Submit your questions at themoneypuzzle@theaustralian.com.au.

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Episodes
  • Summer series: Investing Secrets from $1.5bn Fund Manager Jun Bei Liu

    Summer series: Investing Secrets from $1.5bn Fund Manager Jun Bei Liu
    Jan 6 2026

    In this episode of The Money Puzzle, The Australian’s Wealth Editor, Julie-anne Sprague, unpacks what it takes to be a great investor with one of the nation's top stockpickers, Jun Bei Liu. How did Liu learn to invest? What did she learn when things went wrong and what's her advice for everyday investors wanting to build their wealth?

    Jun Bei Liu of Ten Cap joins Wealth Editor Julie-anne Sprague in this episode.

    Please note, this is a repeat episode of The Money Puzzle. It originally aired in December 2024.

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    35 mins
  • Summer series: Is your home the worst investment you’ll ever make?

    Summer series: Is your home the worst investment you’ll ever make?
    Jan 1 2026

    If it wasn’t said by a top financial adviser, you might dismiss it as a quote out of context, but Partners Wealth Group Jack Tossol is not kidding: He says a generation that has ‘sunk everything’ into the family home will miss the chance to have a successful tax-deductible investment plan.

    It’s a provocative notion, challenging die-hard principles of money management, but with house prices moving higher again...you have to listen.

    Financial adviser Jack Tossol of Partners Wealth Group joins Associate Editor - Wealth, James Kirby, in this episode.

    In today’s show, we cover

    • No tax deduction, no income…Is home ownership overrated?

    • Why ‘Rentvesting’ is worth revisiting

    • Are you facing decades of ‘dead money' in your home mortgage?

    • Challenging the ‘retirement sweet spot’

    Please note, this is a repeat episode of The Money Puzzle. It originally aired in August 2025.

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    28 mins
  • Summer series: FIRE - Financial Independence, Retire Early - Could you do it?

    Summer series: FIRE - Financial Independence, Retire Early - Could you do it?
    Dec 30 2025

    What is the FIRE movement and how did it get started? It's not a club or a cult: It doesn't have a headquarters, rather it's a set of investment principles: And it just might be a breakthrough for you in the year ahead.

    Lionel Lee joins James Kirby in the episode.

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    In today's show, we cover:

    • The key principles of FIRE
    • Getting the best from what the movement has to offer
    • A case study that spans a lifetime
    • The realities of 'firing up'

    Please note, this is a repeat episode of The Money Puzzle. It originally aired in December 2024.

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    38 mins
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