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May 21, 2020

Rebuilding Super After Early Access

Superannuation is income for our retirement however as a result of financial hardship caused by coronavirus, access to super may be an...

May 21, 2020

5 Reasons to Consider a Lifetime Annuity

Looking for a secure and guaranteed investment for your retirement? Current market volatility levels can be too much for some retirees....

May 21, 2020

Phase One Corona Lessons

The impact of Coronavirus is likely to unfold and reveal many insights over time. We thought it might be helpful to highlight 3 key...

May 19, 2020

Ground Control - The Rollercoaster is over: Now for the Road Bumps!

The rollercoaster may have slowed down but there are likely to be many road-bumps along the way. Emmanuel Calligeris shares his insights...

Apr 27, 2020

Ground Control - The Road Out: Tread Carefully

In this fourth edition of Ground Control Emmanuel Calligeris the Chair of the Easton Wealth Investment Committee discusses the RBA...

Apr 9, 2020

Ground Control - The next 3 months and beyond: The future has a future

In episode three of Ground Control we look at the upcoming few months and how it may play out as well as consider the more medium to long...

Mar 30, 2020

Ground Control - Defensive Assets: True to label in volatile times!

Andrew Papageorgiou Joint Managing Partner of Realm shares with us his view on how the current environment initially played out, how it...

Mar 24, 2020

5 things you can do right now during COVID-19

I know it feels like the world is spinning out of control right now.

Mar 23, 2020

Ground Control - Making sense of the nonsensical!

Malcolm, with his enormous experience including the 1987 share market crash, shares with us how he sees the global economy, the recent...

Feb 10, 2020

Better Cash Flow Management

Budgets are so blah! So how should you effectively manage your cash flow without sending yourself into a spin? There are many books and...

Feb 8, 2020

Book review – Spenditude by Paul Gordon and Janine Robertson

This book was on my summer reading list and it was an easy read. Spenditude covers a few areas of interest for me being cash flow...

Feb 5, 2020

The year I went without^(new) clothes.

I love a challenge and this challenge was one I secretly commenced last year. I kept it a secret because I wasn’t certain I could...

Feb 1, 2020

Income Protection is Changing!

In December 2019 APRA launched an intervention into the life insurance market in response to heavy losses on what is called Disability...

Jan 15, 2020

Our Top tips for Change in 2020

It is that time of year again, when we set resolutions and goals. If you really want to make a change in your life – be it personal or...

Nov 1, 2019

The Cost of Cancer

This month (October 2019) I attended two breast cancer fundraising events ran by friends who had recovered from breast cancer. Sadly, I...

Nov 1, 2019

Planning Considerations for Blended Families

The blended family is commonplace nowadays however the financial aspects of a blended family are complex and rarely spoken about and...

Nov 1, 2019

Market Movements

Market volatility keeping you awake at night? Managing your emotions as an investor can be tough. The roller coaster ride of markets can...

Aug 28, 2019

Understanding the First Home Super Scheme

The First Home Super Scheme allows you to tax effectively save for the purchase of your first home by utilising voluntary contributions...

Aug 28, 2019

Buying Property in a Self-Managed Super Fund

We often get asked about the benefits and risks of buying property in a Self Managed Super fund. And it appears this strategy is back in...

Aug 28, 2019

Scrimp and SAVE September

What’s your spending style? Are you an Over Spender? Perhaps you are more of a Sporadic Splurger? Many confess they have Never done a...