Investopoly
Investopoly is a twice-weekly podcast designed to help you make better financial decisions and build wealth with clarity and confidence. Hosted by Stuart (tax adviser, financial adviser, and mortgage broker) and Campbell (senior financial adviser), each episode delivers concise, practical insights grounded in real-world strategy, research, methodologies, and case studies. You will get two episodes each week: a main episode that deep-dives into a single wealth-building topic, and a Q&A episode that answers listener questions and real scenarios. Send your questions to questions@investopoly.com.au We also writes a weekly blog, and many podcast topics build on those ideas and frameworks. Stuart's forthcoming book, Wealth by Design, will be available in July 2026.
Episodes
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Episode three of Eight Rules Revisited continues the Thursday series comparing the eight golden rules from Investopoly with the updated versions in Wealth by Design, released 28 July.
Rule 3 — spend less than you earn and invest the difference- is one of the most straightforward principles in personal finance. It is also one of the most reliably ignored. The rule itself hasn't changed since Inves...
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Both Houses have passed the Treasury Laws Amendment (Tax Reform No. 1) Bill 2026. Royal Assent is pending but considered a formality. For investors, property owners, business owners, and superannuation members, the changes are substantial, and the details matter enormously.
This blog provides a clear, technical breakdown of what the legislation actually does. Negative gearing losses ...
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This episode brings together six listener questions that each involve a meaningful financial decision and, in several cases, significant personal uncertainty alongside significant financial capacity.
The first comes from a couple in their late thirties who received a substantial inheritance, now holding $3.6m in cash alongside a share portfolio and three properties. They have developed a dual-trust str...
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Episode two of Eight Rules Revisited continues the Thursday series comparing the eight golden rules from Stuart's 2018 book Investopoly with the updated versions in his new book, Wealth by Design, released on 28 July.
Rule 2 states that you must know how much income you need and by when. That principle hasn't moved. What has tightened considerably is everything surrounding it. The two goals now have pr...
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Most people assume building wealth requires making hundreds of good financial decisions. In reality, a small number of choices do almost all of the heavy lifting, and this episode identifies exactly which ones.
The first is the choice of partner, arguably the most important financial decision a person will make. Alignment on spending, saving, and investing dramatically simplifies wea...
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This episode brings together four listener scenarios united by a common theme: significant financial capacity, but genuine uncertainty about which move to make next and in what order.
The first comes from a Sydney couple earning $540k who feel house-poor despite their income carrying a $1.9m mortgage on a home bought partly for its duplex potential, with a medium landslide risk and an $800k–$1m o...
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This episode is the first in Eight Rules Revisited, a Thursday series running alongside the regular podcast. Each week, I take one of the eight golden rules from my 2018 book Investopoly and compare it with the version in my new book, Wealth by Design, out on 28 July. Some rules have changed, some have tightened, and some have simply been confirmed by eight more years of evidence and client experience...
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Financial advisers often manage their own money quite differently from the clients they advise. After more than two decades of observing both groups up close, those differences have become a reliable indicator of what genuinely good financial decision-making looks like in practice.
In this episode, Stuart shares nine observations drawn from that experience. Most financial advisers ho...
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This episode brings together four listener questions united by a common challenge: knowing which lever to pull next when the financial position is solid but the path forward feels unclear.
The first comes from a retiree who connected with a recent episode on underspending in retirement, but raises a dimension that wasn't covered how to factor substantial debt-free property wealth, including a principal...
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Commercial property is being actively promoted as a compelling alternative to residential investment, particularly as higher interest rates reduce borrowing capacity and tighter tenancy laws make residential property less attractive. On the surface, the pitch is appealing: higher rental yields, tenants paying most outgoings, and the potential for capital growth. But in Stuart's ass...
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This episode brings together three listener scenarios that each involve genuinely complex financial positions, multiple moving parts, significant income, and decisions where getting the sequencing right matters enormously.
The first comes from a 34-year-old specialist trainee doctor in Sydney, engaged, planning a family, and facing a highly unusual income trajectory, moving from $250k now to as low as ...
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Superannuation's enforced long investment horizon is one of the most underused structural advantages available to Australian investors. This blog examines whether internally geared ETFs have a role to play within super, and backs the analysis with detailed financial modelling rather than theory alone.
The numbers are compelling. A 30-year-old with $200,000 in super, contributing $20,...
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This episode brings together four listener questions that each wrestle with a different dimension of long-term wealth building, from the early decisions that set the trajectory to the late-stage sequencing that determines how comfortably retirement unfolds.
The first comes from a 28-year-old physiotherapist two years into his career, carrying $1.1 million in mortgage debt and a $98k HECS liability, ask...
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Charlie Munger left investors with ten principles that are deceptively simple and take a lifetime to apply well. This blog translates each one into practical, grounded guidance for Australian investors, moving beyond abstract philosophy to the specific decisions, mistakes, and behaviours that shape long-term outcomes in local property and share markets.
The ten principles cover start...
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This episode brings together five listener scenarios that span the full arc of wealth building, from a 24-year-old taking his first steps to couples approaching retirement with complex, multi-property portfolios and competing priorities.
The first question comes from a 24-year-old earning $80k with $75k across shares and savings, limited borrowing capacity, and a genuine desire to start building wealth...
With 30 June approaching, now is the time to review your superannuation contribution options before the annual window closes. Most of the levers available inside super operate within a tight 12-month period, and several are use-it-or-lose-it; miss the deadline, and the opportunity is gone.
This blog walks through 10 strategies worth considering before the end of the financial year. Concessional contributions remai...
This episode brings together five listener scenarios united by a common thread: making sound financial decisions under competing pressures: income goals, asset quality, tax reform, and the desire for more time and freedom.
The first comes from a couple, both aged 40, with three investment properties and a growing ETF portfolio, asking what it will take to reach $200k in net annual income and reduce their working days as early as pos...
This special episode is a replay of a YouTube presentation which is a calm, numbers-led walkthrough of the 2026 Federal Budget - recorded roughly 40 hours after budget night - focused on the three proposals most likely to affect investors: negative gearing, capital gains tax, and family trusts. The deliberate frame throughout is that nothing is law yet, the political debate is far from settled, and listeners should resist making 20...
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The 2026-27 Federal Budget included some of the most significant proposed tax changes we have seen in many years.
In this episode, I unpack the key announcements affecting investors, property owners, business owners, and families, including proposed changes to capital gains tax, negative gearing, and the taxation of discretionary trusts. I also cover the permanent extension ...
This episode brings together four listener questions that each wrestle with some of the most practical and consequential decisions in personal finance: how hard to push for a first home, where to deploy idle equity, when an SMSF makes sense, and how to identify genuinely investment-grade property in a market where houses are out of reach.
A couple in their early thirties transitioning out of academia, with $500...
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