Episode 23:
About this episode:
What Australian investing apps, finance tools, brokerage accounts and bank accounts do Kate and Owen from The Australian Finance Podcast use every day and month?
Kate and Owen discuss:
- Australian share brokerage accounts
- Investing apps
- The best investing books
- The best finance books
- Australia bank accounts
- Apple Pay, PayPal, Strawman, Stocklight & more!
Probably the most requested topic on the Australian Finance Podcast series is: “What investing apps and finance accounts do you guys use?”
Well, here it is!
Kate’s Financial Toolkit
Budgeting & Financial Goal Setting/Tracking
- Frollo (tracking spending)
- Google Sheets (working out budget)
- Up Money (setting specific savings goals)
Investing & Portfolio Management
- CommSec (brokerage account)
- ShareSight (reporting)
- InvestSMART Portfolio Manager
- Research (follow good fund managers – sign up to their newsletters and learn about their investment cases, learning to sift through the noise and scammers, beware the intentions of forum participants)
Podcasts
- Listen Money Matters – US-based personal finance content
- Invest Like the Best – insights helping you better manage your time and money
- Australian Investors Podcast – interviews with professional Australian investors
- Side Hustle School – short daily interviews with individuals running side-hustles
- The Money (ABC) – how the Australian and global economy works
- Ours!
Websites
- Money Magazine – Australian financial news and money-related content
- Miss Money Box — a strong focus on financial education
- Fearless Female Traders — female-focused personal finance community
- Livewire – free investment insights from leading financial professionals
- AFR – digital and hard copy magazine covering Australian financial news (paywall)
Books
- The Simple Path to Wealth – J L Collins
- The Year of Less – Cait Flanders
- Side Hustle – Chris Guillebeau
- Millennial Money – James and Patrick O’Shaughnessy
Owen’s Financial Toolkit
Apps
- CommSec
- ING & ME Bank
- NAB (for business)
- Google Sheets & Drive
- Stocklight App
- PayPal
- Twitter (news)
- Apple Pay
Books & Podcasts
- Richest Man in Babylon – centuries old good n stuff like that
- Happy Money – attitudes to money
- Zen In The Martial Arts – life advice
- How To Money Podcast
Investments
- Rask News
- Fund managers (EPG Capital, Lakehouse Capital)
- Fool.com
- Morningstar.com
- Strawman.com