Aug 29, 2019 | Finances, Financial Literacy, Health & Wellbeing, Interest rates, Lending
If you’ve ever laid awake at night thinking about your finances you’ll know: financial stress can be debilitating. What you may not be aware of is the strong link between financial stress and mental health. According to the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare,...
Aug 15, 2019 | Finances, Financial Literacy, Financial Planning, Investing, Uncategorised
Times like the present are stressful for investors. No one likes to see their wealth fall and uncertainty seems very high. We don’t have a perfect crystal ball, so from the point of sensible long-term investing the following points are worth bearing in mind. First,...
Jul 20, 2019 | Finances, Financial Planning, Health & Wellbeing, Retirement
A growing number of Australians are choosing to return to study as mature-age students. Perhaps caught in the hamster-wheel of mortgage and family, furthering their education wasn’t an option when they were younger. But that was then. Harriet had long fancied setting...
Jul 12, 2019 | Finances, Financial Literacy, Financial Planning, Health & Wellbeing
Cleaner air, less traffic, open spaces, lower cost of living…did we mention less traffic? There are any number of reasons to consider a tree change, but if you’re serious about leaving the bright lights behind, better do your homework first. Housing affordability...
Jun 27, 2019 | Finances, Financial Literacy, Financial Planning, Insurance, Taxation Planning
How often do you give your business finances a tidy-up? As another end-of-financial-year rolls by, now is as good a time as any to undertake a bit of housekeeping. The stresses of running a small business often see us rushing, unprepared, towards June 30th. It’s that...
Jun 20, 2019 | Finances, Financial Literacy, Financial Planning, Taxation Planning
Anyone who has completed their own tax return will know that the tax office treats different types of income differently. Bank interest is recorded in one section, dividends from shares in another and managed fund distributions somewhere else. And unless you are...
