Rask

What it is

Rask is an Australian personal finance and investing company, and education.rask.com.au is its free course site. The page headline reads "Free finance courses for all," and every course in the catalog carries a Free label and an "Enroll Now" button. You create a free account, pick a course and start. The site says 35,000 students have enrolled in free Rask courses and that the company is "on a mission to 100,000."

The courses sit inside a much larger Rask operation. The site describes Rask as "the home of DIY... everything finance, investing, business and property," and around the course library it runs podcasts, free guides, an online community, daily ASX news, a paid investment research membership called Rask Core, a managed investment product called Rask Invest, and referral services for financial planning, mortgages, accounting, insurance and coaching. For a learner, the course site is the part to look at: a catalog of free, self-enroll courses on budgeting, superannuation, investing, property and business, written for Australians.

The free course catalog

The full catalog runs to two pages, and filter tabs sort it into Personal Finance, Investing, Business, Property and Retirement, with two extra tabs for the Equity Mates and Rask Roadtrip series. Some courses appear under more than one tab.

Personal finance is the largest group. It includes Retirement Academy, Levelling up your Budget, Money Automation (Saving & Investing), Money & Budgeting: The Complete Guide, and Sort out your Super (the easy way). The Rask Roadtrip series adds six more: a Tax Crash Course, Protecting your future (super & insurances), the Get Rich Slow course, a Budgeting & Bank Accounts course, the Getting and Staying Out of Debt Course, and a Psychology of Money course.

The investing courses start at the beginning and go a step further. The Beginner's ETF Investing Course and the Beginner Shares Course cover the basics, the Ethical Investing 101 Course covers values-based investing, and the Financial Independence, Retire Early (FIRE) Course covers the early-retirement approach. Share Valuation Course (Intermediate) is the one course labeled above beginner level. The Value Investor Program appears twice, as a 2025 edition and as an older online (2020 version), and the list also includes Invest With Queenie's Beginner Investing Course and Equity Mates Get Started Investing (free course).

Business and property are thinner. The Business tab holds Kate's Career Kickstarter Course and a Free business course by Owen Rask, plus the FIRE course and the Money & Budgeting guide. Property has a single entry, the Free Property 101 Course.

Several courses carry a presenter's name in the title (Owen, Kate, Queenie), and the course page links to an "Our educators" section to meet the team. Equity Mates appears as a named series with its own filter tab.

How enrollment works

Signing up is free. The homepage asks you to "Create a free account to get started," and returning learners can view their courses from the same page. Rask is in the middle of a platform move: a banner says "we're moving to a much more advanced platform," the header shows separate log-ins for the old and new systems, and the footer lists both "Rask Platform (New)" and "My Courses (legacy)." A new learner will most likely start on the new platform, while older enrollments may still sit on the legacy one.

The course list itself does not show how long each course takes or what format the lessons use.

What learners say

The site quotes two students. Alex Cuttiford, on the Beginner ETF Investing Course, writes: "This course was amazing. I have only started looking into investing this year and Owen, your approach to teaching on finance gave me so much confidence. Your level-headedness combined with optimism is exactly what I needed." Lowghan, on Money & Budgeting: The Complete Guide, writes: "No doubt this course and info will be the most valuable FREE thing i've ever received! Really grateful." Both reviews come from beginners, which matches the shape of the catalog, and both address Owen Rask directly, so his voice runs through much of the teaching. A "Read more reviews" link follows each quote.

Podcasts, guides, community and news

Rask's podcasts are the biggest part of its free content. The site says 250,000 investors tune into the Rask podcasts every month, and the footer lists five shows: the Australian Finance Podcast, Australian Investors Podcast, Australian Business Podcast, Australian Property Podcast and Australian Retirement Podcast, plus a page to ask a question. A free investor newsletter is pitched as a way to kick off your week with a pick of podcasts, courses and investing resources.

The free guides cover finance, investing, business and property. The community is Rask's own: "You won't find our online community on Facebook or Reddit. But it's free and available now." For market news, the ASX News menu offers daily ASX news, stock ideas and ETF research.

A course learner can pair a free course with the matching podcast and guides without paying anything.

Paid services around the courses

The courses are the free entry point to Rask's paid offers, and the menus make that clear. Rask Core is described as "Our investment research membership for DIY investors. Build your own portfolio following our recipe." Its menu lists online sessions, a members' community, personas, stock and fund reports, and a set of model portfolios named Saturn, Jupiter, Martian, Terra, Mercury, Solar and Luna, the last one for kids.

Rask Invest is the managed option. The site says it has "millions of dollars under management" and that its Product Disclosure Statement and Target Market Determination are issued by InvestSMART. Other services connect visitors with partners: the financial planning page says over 100 clients are matched with Rask's advice partners every month, and there are pages for mortgage broking, accounting, life insurance and money coaching. Business coaching is pitched with the line "Rask helps 10,000 business owners start, build and grow profitable businesses."

For employers, "Rask's corporate financial wellness programs are designed for your EAP service, or as once-off events." The course pages publish no prices for these paid services.

The site footer carries a general advice warning: Rask Group Pty Ltd operates as a representative under the Australian financial services license held by Rask Licensing Pty Ltd, and the information on the site is general financial advice only, which does not take a reader's own situation into account.

Who it suits

Rask's course site suits Australian adults who are starting out with money: someone building a first budget, working out their super, getting out of debt, or buying a first ETF. The price is the main draw, since every course on the list is free, and the range from budgeting through shares, property and early retirement lets a learner move between topics without paying for a new program each time. The podcasts and newsletter give a reason to keep coming back after a course ends.

There are caveats. The content is written for Australia, with courses on super and news centered on the ASX, so a reader elsewhere will need to translate the specifics to their own system. Most courses are beginner level, with one intermediate valuation course, so experienced investors will find less here than in Rask's paid research. And this is personal finance education, not training for a career in finance. The ongoing platform move also means some learners will see two log-ins for a while.