Property or shares: Which wins? Mid-life super worries and investing traps – Q&A
Australian Finance Podcast
Mid‑50s, divorced and anxious about retirement
Gemma explains how super works as a retirement 'bucket' and urges financial advice for optimizing super and property.
In this Friday episode of The Australian Finance Podcast, hosts Owen Rask and Gemma Mitchell unpack your questions on super, property and how to juggle big money decisions at different life stages. This week we look at what retirement can actually look like in your 50s, whether it’s worth pausing salary sacrifice to focus on a new home loan, how debt recycling really works, and what to do if you have a deposit saved but no stable job yet.
Owen and Gemma cover:
– How retirement works when you’re mid 50s, divorced and rebuilding, and what actually happens to your super
– Whether stopping pre-tax super contributions to pay down a 620k home build is a smart trade-off or a backwards step
– What debt recycling is, how equity can be used for a second investment property, and the common traps to avoid
– What to do with deposit savings when you don’t yet have an income to support a mortgage
– How to think about investing when you have a shorter life expectancy and want to use your wealth earlier
– Shares vs property and which one we favour right now based on long term patterns, not headlines
– What needs to change in the finance industry to make advice more accessible and more useful
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