There’s no better time than the present to get your personal finance in order.
Building wealth certainly doesn’t happen overnight and as much as property investment is key, this all begins with how you manage your money.
These articles offer the best advice from finance industry experts so you can learn how to benefit from long-term monetary strategies.
Have you ever wondered what your financial thermostat is set for? Perhaps the thought has never crossed your mind? Let‘s look at it a different way… What is your Air Conditioner temperature set for? I know where we live in Brisbane it runs at a consistent and cool 23 degrees Celsius. If the kids leave…
Are you wanting to build a higher level of Wealth, but feel you are being held back? I know many people certainly feel that “if only” they were able to jump a pay grade and achieve a higher salary, it would be so much easier. In my experience, people seem to think that the most…
As the saying goes, you can’t buy true happiness. But it turns out there is a particular sum of money that would help. Building on research originally conducted by US University Purdue, which found the price tag for happiness in the United States stands at $135,500, a new study by investment education platform Expensivity then…
Much is said about wage growth and the expectation that it will increase once unemployment falls. Many dismal scientists have been claiming a return to half-decent wage growth of yonks, yet it remains lost, allusive at best. I have been writing for some time that wage growth is likely to remain low and many of…
Cheap people and frugal people are two very different types. Cheap people focus on price first, when it comes to spending their money. Frugal people focus on quality first when it comes to spending their money. But one common denominator they both share is that they control how much money they spend. Most people, however,…
In my study on the habits of the rich and poor, I learned that three things about mentors: Mentors are hard to come by – only 24% of the wealthy had a mentor in life. Finding a mentor is the fast track to accumulating wealth – that 24% who found mentors also happened to accumulate…
You’re probably reading this blog because you want to become rich. But how much money do you need? A lot of research has gone into whether money does truly make you happy and it has been found that, in general, humans are never satisfied. We always think that if we had a little bit more…
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Have you ever wished that you had more money, without all the fuss and effort? Maybe you’re concerned you won’t have enough saved for r etirement? Fortunately there’s actually a simple way to accomplish those things if you’re willing to learn how to put your money to work for you. It’s called compound interest, and it can…
Building wealth is simple. It doesn’t require luck, genius, or special connections. You don’t have to attend overpriced weekend financial seminars (when they start running them again in a Covid normal world) or learn the latest tricks and gimmicks sold by slick marketers. As John Bogle wisely stated, “The secret is there are no secrets.”…
What has been the single greatest obstacle stopping you from becoming financially free? Why do I ask? Well…last week at a private client function I was conducting I had the good fortune to have conversations with a number of our Wealth Retreat graduates. I was talking with them about their experiences since attending our 5-day…
