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The debt hangover

Australian households have become addicted to debt over the past 15 years and, writes Annette Sampson, a day of reckoning may not be far away.

Rules to cut risks

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has for years told investors: "If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is." This was meant to provide sufficiently strong warning to investors looking at higher-than-bank-interest returns to tread carefully about embracing higher risk.

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