How do Retirement Income Options Compare?
Retirement is filled with opportunities and choices. There’s the time to travel more, work on long-delayed personal projects or volunteer your help to worthwhile causes. You also have a host Read more…
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Mortgage Vs Super
“Should I put my money into my mortgage or my super?” With interest rates on the rise and investment returns increasingly volatile, Australians with cash to spare may be wondering Read more…
Retirement on a Cruise Ship
One of the key insights from my time in Florida has been that everybody’s idea of Retirement is certainly different. Living half the year near family, then the other half Read more…
Client Wins
Another channel we created within Slack is our ‘Client Wins’. It’s important that all of the team, including those in the back office working on the administration support and Read more…
Our Retirement Wall continues to grow
Our Retirement Wall continues to build and we’ve taken delivery of our 3rd champagne cork board this week (and one red wine cork as well) with the 4th in Read more…
Q & A Series – Meet the Team – Adviser Mark Hardick
We continue our Meet the Team series with an informal question and answer session with Mark Hardick. Mark has substantial experience in the financial industry, and holds a genuine interest Read more…
Recommended Reading Ageing Well
Professor George Vaillant of Harvard University is the author of this book, a follow up to his NY Times best seller Ageing Well. I’ve listened to the audio version, which Read more…
5 Reasons For Market Volatility in October
October was an anxious month for investors as the US market fell 7% while the Australian market fell by about 5%. There was no single major reason for the Read more…
Meet The Team – Sarah Broady
As part of our Meet the Team series, this is an opportunity to get to know each of us better with an informal chat. In this video we speak with Read more…
What’s Your Money Personality?
Our childhood upbringing can have a significant influence upon our attitudes with money as an adult. When growing up as a child, was money spent freely in the household, or was it a cause of Read more…
60 Seconds with Tracey Parkin
In March this year, Tracey Parkin clocked over a 10 year milestone being with our office. It honestly doesn’t seem that long ago when she started as a part-time administrator with Read more…
Plan for an EPIC Retirement
Your EPIC Retirement Plan Our new retirement video highlights four key areas to a thriving, successful retirement. Consider the opportunities that come with seeing retirement in an entirely new light. Read more…
Is it time to consider what Retirement means for you?
Whether you’ve been told you should retire at 65, or some other age, retirement is always a highly personal decision – at least in the traditional sense. Many of us Read more…
Planning for your Retirement : Reduce your worries
Planning for your Retirement early means you are in a better place to enjoy what really matters and reduce your worries. Read this guide to find out how – Entering Read more…
The average retiree spends 43.5 hours per week watching television
The average retiree spends 43.5 hours per week watching television. (Age Wave, 2012) Identify your values in life and discuss with others how your vision of retirement should be. Pleasure Read more…
The Paradox of Leisure in Retirement
The Paradox of Leisure – A retirement that totally consists of leisure must be a good thing, right? Psychologist Barry La Valley highlights an important perspective on this myth: “We Read more…
How to keep your brain active
Neuroscience has proven that your brain is a muscle (Manin, Hong and Clark, 2013) Just like any muscle, if it’s not active it can atrophy and wither. The well known Read more…
Should you sell your family home when entering an Aged Care facility?
Should you sell your family home when entering an Aged Care facility? If you are part of the ‘sandwich generation’, ie. caring for your own kids and parents at the Read more…
Retirement is one of the top 10 most stressful life events
Retirement is one of the top 10 most stressful life events. (The Holmes-Rahe Life Stress inventory, The American Institute of Stress) When you are contemplating retirement, it is recommended that Read more…
The Next Phase Of Life – Retirement – Change how you feel
Changing The Way You Feel About This Next Phase Of Life – Retirement One of my goals is to consider retirement from the standpoint of how people feel about their Read more…
50 years since Decimal Currency was introduced!
It’s funny looking back at major changes in life and remembering all the anxiety, opposition and upheaval that came with them. It’s hard to believe that it’s been 50 years since Read more…
Retirement Advice Newsletters – 2015
Our 2015 series of newsletters can be viewed online by clicking on the Newsletter Header above and then the PDF below. October 2015 – The Retirement Advice Centre Newsletter Read more…
Retirement Success
Retirement specialist, Dr Richard Johnson, summarises that retirement success is reliant upon more than a financial calculator alone. We adopt a similar philosophy with our retirement advice service. In this Read more…
Do It Yourself Investing
In today’s digital age, gaining access to information is easy. As Jim Parker of DFA Australia rightly points out in this article, Living on the Edge, anyone with a smartphone Read more…
