Free guide · Finance Decoder

The Jargon Decoder

Forty fancy words in suits, with the suits taken off.

Finance has its own language, and it was built to keep you out. This free guide translates forty money terms into plain English, for women who were never handed the glossary.

Send me the decoder
Enter your email and the guide lands in your inbox. Yours to keep.

Free. Education only, not financial advice. No spam, unsubscribe any time.

What is inside

Forty terms. Six places they hide.

The words that turn up in forms, ads, and meetings where everyone is nodding. Decoded once, in plain English, so they never make you feel behind again.

Super Tax Investing Banking & debt Property Insurance
Superannuation Guarantee
The percentage of your wage your employer must pay into your super. This is yours, not a favour. Worth checking it is landing.
Comparison rate
The advertised interest rate plus most fees, in one honest number. The advertised rate leaves the fees out; this number puts them back in.
Franking credits
A note that tax has already been paid on a dividend, so the same money is not taxed twice.

Plus thirty-seven more, from salary sacrifice to negative gearing to binding death benefit nominations.

Why this exists

The financial system was not built with us in mind.

None of these words are as clever as their tailoring suggests. A language only a few people understand is a very effective way to keep everyone else quiet, nodding, and slightly apologetic.

You were never given the tools. This guide is one small piece of handing them over, in plain English, with nothing to sell you and no one telling you what to do.

35%
of women answered all five basic financial literacy questions correctly, vs 50% of men.
79¢
earned for every $1 men earn at private-sector employers with 100 or more staff, counting salary, superannuation, bonuses and overtime.
26%
less super than men at ages 60 to 64.
The Jargon Decoder

Get the guide.

Free, plain-English, yours to keep. Inside it, an invitation to the founding cohort.

Education only, not financial advice. Unsubscribe any time. No spam, ever.