As a financial adviser, a common question I get asked by people in their 30's and 40's is 'should I buy an investment property?'. This is because they have either been directly approached by a company marketing property investment or they just feel that it's generally the thing people do at their age to get … Continue reading Should I buy an investment property?
The 2020-21 Federal Budget announcement unleashed a raft of measures aimed to get people into jobs, create new jobs, invest in sectors that we need for the future, and reductions to income tax rates to help households by putting more money in their pockets to ease pressures or for consumption spending back in the economy. … Continue reading Unleash the benefits! What you can do with $5,000 in tax savings.
I have encountered my fair share of trials and tribulations in the last 13 years since I had my first child and wanted to continue in my career, and it has made me always challenge the status quo in a search for a better way of doing things, to somehow try and get balance between … Continue reading Could the pandemic disrupt the 9-5 office work day forever? Working parents, this is for you.
One day they are just tiny six pound babies in your arms, and suddenly you realise you are about to have a teenager in the house, with just a few short years to go before they may want to fly the nest, as I did when I was 17. I meet many working parents and … Continue reading Raising kids & juggling a career
In a busy world, sometimes we put so much energy and focus on a particular area of our life, that we forget about the others. It's not dissimilar to the old "work-life balance" subject that I'm referring to, but this topic extends much, much deeper than that. Some of us are knee deep raising children, … Continue reading Curating a Life of Meaning
Deep down we all want to know the answer to this burning question in the quest to find out how long we have to keep working for... how much do I need to retire? I get asked this all the time. You know the months of November through to February are usually my peak retirement … Continue reading Retirement…. Do You Have a Vision?
Yes I know, we don't really use the terms lower, middle and upper class these days. Of course there will always be divisions in household wealth, and this piece is directed at the middle income earners - a household income of somewhere between $90,000 - $150,000 with between one and three financially dependant children. I've … Continue reading The 7 Budget Black Holes of the Middle Class
As a kid, one of my favourite tv shows was Money by Paul Clithero. Super nerdy for a teenager but I just loved the content and would hang out for it every week. My childhood didn't contain a smartphone or even internet for most of it... I am from the home encyclopedia era. There was … Continue reading Make Time Your Friend
I don't want to get in the middle of the public school versus private school debate here, that's not an argument that I can fairly pick a side because we have never sent our children to a public school. What I do know is that I went to a public school and turned out quite … Continue reading Schooling your little darlings
Absence makes the heart grow fonder, definitely true! I'm spending a few days on a business trip to the city and this morning I thought, gee it would be nice to stay here one more night and have some time to just enjoy the quiet. I text that feeling to my husband and he replied … Continue reading A great partnership is a recipe for success!
The Business of Life 