Should I pay off my mortgage or contribute to super?
One of the most popular questions we are asked by our clients is whether it’s best to pay off their mortgage first or salary sacrifice money into their super fund
March 16, 2018
Financial Planning
5 simple techniques to reduce your tax
His words might have been recorded over 200 years ago, but Benjamin Franklin’s famous uttering “in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes” remains
February 15, 2018
Making clever use of offset accounts
It’s a common misconception that mortgage offset accounts are loan products when in fact they are savings accounts sitting within a mortgage structure. If you’re not sure how mortgage offset
February 9, 2018
What is your aged care funding strategy?
When it comes to planning for retirement few of us think beyond the opportunity to travel and do all those things we’ve been putting off until we have more time
January 30, 2018
New Year Financial Checklist
As we move towards the end of yet another year and ponder how fast the last 12 months have come and gone, many of us find ourselves thinking about the
December 23, 2017
Does money bring happiness?
The short answer is ‘yes’, but only up to a point. People in richer countries are, collectively, happier than people in poor countries. Within countries, people with higher incomes are
October 4, 2017
Salary sacrifice vs personal contributions to superannuation
Amongst the changes made to superannuation effective 1 July 2017 was the welcome and sensible move to give everyone who makes a personal contribution to super the option of claiming
August 11, 2017
Salary Sacrificing is Not Just About Super
When most people think of salary sacrifice they think of superannuation. It’s pretty easy to see why. If someone earning $100,000 a year takes the last $10,000 of that amount
June 16, 2017
PRESS RELEASE – True Independent Advice Makes its New Base in Maroondah
After living locally in Ringwood North for over 17 years, Corin Jacka and his financial planning business, Priority1 Wealth Management Group jumped at the chance to set up shop at
May 23, 2017
The Super Difference for Women
Recent decades have seen huge gains made in the financial empowerment of women. However complete financial equality won’t happen soon and in some cases may be unattainable. So what are
April 7, 2017
March 20, 2017
Adult Kids Still at Home?
Remember a time when kids couldn’t wait to leave home so they could have their own “pad”? Those days are definitely over with one and half million adult children now
March 10, 2017