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Chapter 1: What are term deposits and how do they work?
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Chapter 2: What factors should you consider when choosing a term deposit?
And in Sydney, it often goes by the name of St. George. So depending on where you are, it may have a different skin over the top. Same bank. Yeah.
I think St. George also offered a similar rate, if not the same one.
Yeah.
And they've also said on the website, if you actually open the term deposit online, they'll increase that up to 4%. Okay, cool. I think they're trying to encourage their older customers to actually use their online services rather than going into a branch or calling up.
Because there are branches everywhere, isn't it? I know it's Bank of Melbourne and we're in Melbourne, but there actually are branches everywhere.
Yeah. So they're trying to encourage you to use the computer, which I assume all of our listeners would anyway. So it's basically 4%. Yeah.
If you're listening to this podcast on a device, you can go to your bank on a device. Okay, great.
Yeah. But it was talking up to 5 million. So I assume there's some older customers in there with those numbers. I do not have $5 million in cash laying around.
But if you do have and you want to give it to us, let us know. The next one, Kate, number four.
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Chapter 3: How do term deposits compare to savings accounts?
Yeah. And you've got options now. So to get 4%, you can actually just put in term deposit. Some of the savings accounts are nearly 4% as well. So it's worth keeping in mind that you can get something fairly similar, but more liquid.
Yeah. I would also say that's probably something that Barefoot wrote about recently. Scott Pape, he did say that if you do lock in your term deposit, because there's some big ones, it's like four or five years. If you do lock in your term deposit for a long time and then interest rates continue to go up, you might be getting a term deposit too soon.
So the important part is not all or nothing with these things. I think that's the key thing.
Yeah, you can put... A little bit of money here. A little bit with different deposit providers.
For different durations.
As long as you keep on top of it and know when things are starting and ending and what you're being paid.
Yeah, and just remember that offset accounts, for those of you that have a mortgage, and savings accounts are... pretty good too. So don't feel like you have to get a term deposit just because we spoke about it. But yeah, if you have any suggestions for us or term deposits, I know we had a heap of people write in to us to say, hey, have you checked this out? Hey, have you checked this out?
I know inside the Raskor community, someone, sorry to whoever posted this, but there's actually like a community spreadsheet where people actively go in there and update this spreadsheet that everyone can access that mentions all the best rates on offer. So super cool. So thank you for everyone that did jump into the community and let us know.
Again, we're not endorsing or recommending any of the term deposits. I don't have a term deposit right now, but do you have a term deposit?
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