Annuities: A Secure Retirement Income Stream for Your Parents or Yourself
When it comes to investing for retirement, the landscape has become increasingly uncertain. In this blog, we explore a solution that offers a holistic approach to retirement portfolios: lifetime annui …
Creating Financial Stability in Uncertain Times Happy New Year! Do you start the new year eager to set goals and put new habits in place? I know I do. It always feels like a bit of a clean slate to fi …
Looking Onwards to 2023It’s been another big year for Australia and the world with the ongoing pandemic, cost of living crisis, war in Ukraine, and supply chain crunch all adding to a general sense of …
There’s a lot of misunderstanding about superannuation given that it’s one of our most important lifetime financial investments – or it should be. We sort out some fact from fiction and answer some co …
You may think your retirement is far off—so no worries, right? Not so fast. To ensure you have enough funds to live well when you retire, you need to learn what you need to do now to make sure you can …
Super Charge Your Super Looking for smart ways to boost your superannuation? Do so before the end of this financial year to maximise any tax benefits.Having a superannuation savings strategy not only …
What’s the difference between general and personal advice?
With something as important as life insurance, you want to know you’re making the right decisions for yourself and your loved ones. But how can you be sure when there are so many variables and options …
Here’s why you need to consolidate your super in 2022
Money and Life(Financial Planning Association of Australia)New super rules introduced November 2021 mean employees are now ‘stapled’ to their existing superannuation fund, unless they choose otherwise …
The science behind why we need life insurance: Life insurance saves us from ourselves
Clarity(OnePath)Life insurance protects our future financial circumstances against unexpected illness or injury.Deep down, most of us probably know that’s a good investment in our future. But the trut …
Insurance cover: What is indexation and how does it work?
Clarity(OnePath) Protecting you against inflationIndexation is an automatic increase to the amount of insurance cover you have, to make sure the value of your cover is not eroded by the impacts of inf …
Marion Rae(Australian Associated Press) Payments are really just money stuck in a computer, so why not make it faster and more secure, pioneers of blockchain say.Digital boxes of ledgers could replace …
Colin Brinsden, AAP Economics and Business Correspondent(Australian Associated Press) Superannuation funds need to do much better in explaining complex financial information to their members.New resea …