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Is your insurance structurally-sound?

___________ It’s always a smart strategy to protect your family’s lifestyle with life insurance. But it’s even smarter if you can get the structure right for your circumstances. When you take out life insurance, it’s an investment for your future. With that cover in place, you know that if you […]

Is the current Aussie share recovery going to last?

______________________ After being dragged down by the global financial crisis, Australian shares have made a come back. But is this improved performance sustainable and how does this compare to previous recoveries? Profitable or not? Investment author Rob Arnott once said: “In investing, what is comfortable is rarely profitable.”1 Investing in […]

Beware the latest online scam

_________________________ A new online scam has been doing the rounds and this one, coming just after tax time, claims to be from the Australian Taxation Office (ATO). False refund claims An email purporting to be from the ATO, has been landing in a number of Australian’s inboxes. The email says a […]

Want to retire in comfort or modesty? Start planning now

We all want to retire happy, but working out if you will have enough to retire comfortably means some retirement planning now. It may seem a long way off, but if you start thinking about planning your retirement early you can identify whether you may have enough in your kitty […]

What’s your investment lifestage?

Many opinion pieces and financial articles have been written with handy tips to help invest your money. An issue with many of these is that the people reading them are, in all likelihood, of different ages and at different stages of life. With this in mind we’ve broken down each […]