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.
I’ve often said that any problem money can solve isn’t a problem – it’s just a question of how motivated you are to find the funds and get it sorted. But there are lots of things that money can’t buy, and when we’re so focused on those dollar signs we can find ourselves missing out…
Australia is becoming a more litigious society with more people considering suing and more lawyers opting to take on their cases for no upfront fee. While the number of law suits in Australia is growing, we’re still a fair way from the situation in the USA, where people have a 33 per cent change of…
Sometimes rich people stop being rich. Things can go wrong. Sometimes those things that go wrong are outside the control of the wealthy (i.e. random bad luck) but more often than not they are things that are completely within their control. As a CPA, I’ve been advising wealthy individuals in money matters for more than…
I love ice cream. It is one of my greatest weaknesses. I like lots of flavours but my all-time favourite is mint choc chip. If there is mint choc chip ice cream in the house I can hear it calling my name, constantly! You know I can remember taking my son Nicholas to the ice…
As we all know, the path to success is a long and winding road paved with detours, potholes and the occasional ‘wrong way, go back’ sign. It’s never smooth, and it’s never straight-forward. But persist, work hard and learn from your mistakes and you’ll get to the top of the mountain. On your way, you’ll…
The banks are increasingly taking their foot off the brake on home lending, particularly for ‘riskier’ loans, according to APRA’s recently released quarterly banking figures. The banking regulator’s data shows new residential home loans to borrowers with a high debt-to-income ratio increased by 22.3 per cent between the September and December 2019 quarters. Low deposit…
When I was about six or seven I wanted to play the drums. My parents went out and bought me a small snare drum along with a pair of drum sticks and brushes (I still can’t use brushes, but that’s another story). I remember the day my father brought the drum home, it was shiny…
While I am always finding new ways to teach my children, they teach me on a daily basis. Learning opportunities are great, and I love to find life lessons in almost anything that happens. Don’t forget to take life lessons too. Always teach and always learn. By the way, It’s turning into a regular thing to write…
Panic buying knows no borders. Shoppers in Australia, Japan, Hong Kong and the United States have caught toilet paper fever on the back of the COVID-19 coronavirus. Shop shelves are being emptied as quickly as they can be stocked. This panic buying is the result of the fear of missing out. It’s a phenomenon of…
There are changes aplenty in the superannuation space at present, but some things have stayed the same. One of which is that there are still multiple benefits to running your own super fund, regardless of any changes to the general super landscape. In fact, more and more Australians are opting to take control of their…
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