Albert Barrera of Odessa, Texas, walked into a Sears store recently with a pressing question for the manager: If Sears closes, who will service my refrigerator? Barrera had bought a Kenmore refrigerator for $US529 several months earlier, and along with it, he purchased a three-year service warranty that cost $US229 almost half as much as…
Smart money: Smoothing out lumpy cash flow for those in the creative sector [Mon 27/03/2017 11:01 AM] By Bradd Morelli Bradd Morelli. As a partner at Jirsch Sutherland, a specialist insolvency, forensic accounting and turnaround business, Bradd Morelli has been…
Problem gambling costs the UK up to £1.2bn according to a report by charity GambleAware, with spending related to police intervention, mental health services and homelessness putting pressure on the system. The charity warned of the narrow focus on fixed-odds betting terminals (FOBTs), known as the crack cocaine of gambling, and called on the government…
Nicole Miller is owed more than $6000 in superannuation from her former employer, PR agency Kreab Gavin Anderson. Miller worked as an office manager at what was one of Australia’s top communications operations until it went into voluntary administration on December 23 and now, like millions of other Australians who get underpaid their superannuation every year, fears she may never…
A recent High Court personal insolvency judgment has poked a hole in the logjam blocking the resolution of bad mortgage cases when it comes to one tricky category of broke debtor: separated couples, and more specifically, the case of the deserted spouse. Ms Justice Marie Bakers ruling in Re: JD (a debtor) will help guide…
Getty Images When it comes to the potential practical consequences of putting a professional football team in Las Vegas, the NFL isnt completely ignoring the situation. It seems, however, that not nearly enough people are taking the situation as seriously as they should. Per a source with knowledge of the situation, some are indeed sounding…
By Ed Enoch Staff Writer Stillman Colleges interim president is seeking assistance from alumni to cover debt service, payroll and operating expenses through the summer, warning that without help the private institution could potentially run out of money by April 15. The colleges immediate need is $275,000 to pay the April debt service payment…
moneytips.com , KSDK 1:34 PM. EDT March 24, 2017 A significant debt or a sexually transmitted disease (STD): which one would be a bigger deal breaker in a potential dating partner? A recent survey conducted by SoFi found that, for a surprising number of millennials, the answer is debt. Nobody would be eager to disclose…
“They could not recover any of my money”: workers fail to get super Canberra: Photograph of Geoff Raby, former Australian Ambassador to China, Senior Adviser to Kreab Gavin Anderson, and Michael Morgan, Convenor of Kreab Gavin Anderson????s Asia Business Group in Canberra today, Wednesday 8 December 2011. Photograph by Penny Bradfield. Photo: Penny Bradfield exit…