Gemma Acton

Gemma Acton joined the Sydney newsroom of Australia's Seven News as Network Finance Editor in 2017. Over the past 18 years, she pursued both creative and financial educational and career opportunities at institutions including Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, PIMCO, the Lauder Institute at the Wharton School and UCL. Her most recent role was as an anchor and correspondent for CNBC Europe based out of London. In her current role, Gemma covers business, economic and finance stories nationwide, with a particular focus on how developments are affecting Australian consumers. She keeps a keen eye on the impact that the ongoing digital revolution is having on Australians' jobs, financial security and their everyday lives. Gemma gained her MBA/MA from The Lauder Institute at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and is a CFA Charterholder.

Recent articles by Gemma Acton

GEMMA ACTON: Doing a little bit of research could save you thousands

How I saved $470 on household utilities in just FIVE minutes

GEMMA ACTON: Consumers do not switch service providers often enough — particularly on the items where it can make a real difference to household finances.

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Could AI cure Australia’s sick healthcare system?

GEMMA ACTON: It’s easy to take universal healthcare for granted until you realise with a shock that it’s a privilege available in few countries.

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GEMMA ACTON: How I found out the cost-of-living crisis is deeper-seated and wider spread than I had really understood.

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The long-term impacts of the cost-of-living crisis

GEMMA ACTON: How I found out the cost-of-living crisis is deeper-seated and wider spread than I had really understood.

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GEMMA ACTON: If the savings are there, Aussie motorists can be persuaded to part with petrol.

Fuel costs could shift EV sales into top gear

GEMMA ACTON: If the savings are there, Aussie motorists can be persuaded to part with petrol.

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GEMMA ACTON: We might like to think of ourselves as a relaxed bunch, but our nation’s work-life balance actually ranks among the developed world’s worst.

Australia’s work-life balance ranks among the world’s worst

GEMMA ACTON: We might like to think of ourselves as a relaxed bunch, but our nation’s work-life balance actually ranks among the developed world’s worst.

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Like many Aussies, I’ve found plenty of ways to cut my spending amid a cost-of-living crisis. But giving up my 30 minutes of peace and quiet at a cafe is not going to be one of them.

Even at $5.50, my daily barista-made coffee is a bargain

GEMMA ACTON: Like many Aussies, I’ve found plenty of ways to cut my spending amid a cost-of-living crisis. But giving up my 30 minutes of peace and quiet at a cafe is not going to be one of them.

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Surprise city booming as fortunes shift in Aussie capitals

COVID is over but pandemic migration trends are sticking around.

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Gemma Acton: Shrinkflation is back and costing you big

It’s time to channel beer drinkers and fight shrinkflation

Feel powerless against increasing process and diminishing product sizes? Then take a leaf out of beer drinkers’ book.

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GEMMA ACTON: There is no escape from AI. So we may as well get on board or risk being left behind

GEMMA ACTON: We can’t escape AI. So we need to get on board

The inescapable truth is that no one is going to escape AI. The happier news is that there’s a good chance it’ll improve your life very soon in ways we still can’t even imagine today.

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Financial literacy could be the answer to our happiness crisis, writes gemma Acton.

Is financial literacy the answer to our happiness crisis?

Australians are in a happiness crisis. Maybe implementing compulsory financial literacy programs could help pull us out.

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The $330 a day reason for the gender pay gap.

The $330 a day reason for the gender pay gap

I pay taxes, take no subsidies and have two children at a time of declining birth rates. I am doing all I can for the economy and yet, I am penalised for it, writes Gemma Acton.

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NAB’s latest quarterly well-being survey reveals we haven’t felt this down since COVID first broke out.

We haven’t felt this down since COVID but it’s not all bad

New year, new you? Not so fast.

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How much benefit could a positive forecast for the Australian dollar have for travellers?

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The Aussie dollar is looking up. So is it time to travel?

With inflation fears starting to subside, analysts are predicting big gains for Australia’s currency. But there are already ways for to get the most out of your money while overseas.

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There’s one word which can apply a 300 per cent premium on your everyday items.

Spending the rest of your life together? Spend big first

Need to whack a weighty premium on an everyday item? Just add one word and suddenly it’s triple the price.

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Twitter has come under fire on issues of trust and fake news in the wake of the 2016 US election. (AP PHOTO)

Keeping faith in democracy in the deep fake era

About 2 billion people around the globe will head to the polls at a time when technology is making it harder than ever to know whom - or what - to trust.

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