Personal Finance
Your Superannuation – Your Responsibility
A survey was released yesterday by AMP highlighting the shortfall Australians have in their superannuation savings with approximately 31% of all Australians being on average 11% behind in their savings needs.
While many will be quick to point out that we have recently seen a fairly significant fall in the value of global share markets, I [...]
Your House or Your Superannuation?
Recently the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) commissioned a report into attitudes on superannuation.
A list of the key findings and a thought or two are listed below:
35% of those surveyed thought paying off the house produced a much better return than superannuation;
Many Australians do see their house as a cashable asset they can [...]
Aussie home prices – the end is nigh, or is it?
Last night I saw a story on one of our long running current affairs shows (irrespective of what you think of the show, the story was interesting – maybe not 100% unbiased and without judgment, but it still raised an interesting point or two).
12May2008 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
When financial planning is not financial planning.
This week we did some work with a family where the mother of the family, at the sprightly age of 90 has just decided to move into a residential aged care facility.
Sometimes called nursing homes, it’s not until you are faced with helping a person make the transition from independent living that you actually appreciate [...]
Making a case for mortgage foreclosures
I read an interesting article on the Business Spectator website at the weekend. The full article is written by Steven F Landsburg
Steven’s article presents an interesting perspective on the doom and gloom surrounding the impending crash of US house prices and the subsequent mortgage foreclosures and argues as to why they should be allowed [...]
You need to be very positive during a recession and make some tough decisions might need to be made , ...
Thanks for the stock information Paul and yes go the Maroons. Best wishes, Eddie 
An interesting view.