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Sydney Financial Planning earns 'Most Trusted Adviser' status for the fourth year in a row!

Creative ideas for younger Australians to invest in property

It won’t come as a huge surprise to learn that Australian homes are among the most expensive in the world. In a recent surveyⁱ every Australian town and suburb was rated as ‘seriously’ or ‘severely’ unaffordable. And if you’re in a capital city it’s even worse, with the average Sydney home costing nine times average household income.

If you’re like three out of four Australians, you may have started the year without a proper budget.ⁱ

What is Superannuation and what’s so super about it?

Are you the type of person who always has to have the latest clothes, smart technology or gym gear?

If you answered yes to this question, you could be a person who likes instant gratification, that is, you like to indulge in instant reward now, rather than exercising self-controli, in return for a potentially greater reward in the future.

The time is now! Embrace the changes and benefit before it’s too late

In 1930, Harold Bell Lasseter claimed that when three decades earlier he rode on horseback from Queensland to the West Australian goldfields, he stumbled across a huge gold reef.

Over the next 80 years, scores of expeditions set off to the region near the border of the Northern Territory and Western Australia, but no-one ever found a sliver of evidence of the socalled Lasseter’s Reef.

Tax time is looming, which means it’s time to brush up on your tax minimisation tools.

We’ve provided a few examples below to get you started

If presentation isn’t on point, many buyers keep looking, which is an important point to remember for those wanting to sell in the current market.

Will you be a honeymooner, a go-getter or a relaxer?

The first year of retirement is one of transition in which you will need to adjust to major changes that can bring big rewards.

Health... check. Finances... check. Career... check?

Are you happy at work? Do you jump out of bed excited about tackling your next project? Or are you counting down the days until your holidays or retirement? 

Stop taking advice from people that offer it for free.

We’re all guilty of it at some stage in our lives.

As we grow up, land our first job and receive our first pay check, friends, family and colleagues will all chip in to give you their pearls of wisdom. 

With nearly one in three people planning to save their tax return, have you considered what you might do with yours?

No one wants to budget. It’s scary, it takes a long time, it would deprive me from…

Is it really your great Aussie dream?

It happens every year. You’re strolling down the high street of your local beachside town enjoying a long hot summer with the family when a holiday home in the real estate agents’ window catches your eye. 

Procrastination is no doubt the number one reason why people don’t become successful at achieving what they dream of.

It is caused by the change that needs to happen. And we, humans, don’t like change that much!

Thank you so much for your support for SFP Founder, Bill Bracey’s inaugural TV appearance on the series – Your Best Interests. 

We’ve been overwhelmed with positive feedback with many resonating with Helen’s story about how financial planning has made a difference to your life.

Romance blooms at any age, including as we get older and supposedly wiser about such things of the heart, and head.

If you’ve paid off your home, have a healthy stash of super and take an overseas holiday each year, you’ve made it financially. That’s the view of many Australians according to recent research.

Well the 2016 Budget has been delivered, so what should we be doing regarding the changes to super?

There are a number of big changes regarding contributions to super, but in short the Government is making it harder to get larger amounts of money into super, thereby making it harder for retirees to take advantage of the tax free status of a Super Pension (known as an Allocated Pension).

What is insurance? - Insurance is a form of protection - a way to protect yourself, your family and the things you own if something goes wrong. It enables you to replace or repair your assets, whether those assets are your belongings or your capacity to earn income.

The NSW Government is rolling out a new package designed to improve housing affordability across the state.

"For many of us, building a sufficient superannuation balance for retirement is likely to be the most important thing we can achieve in our working life.

After all, the quality of your lifestyle in retirement depends largely on how much you contribute to super, and the investment choices you make.

When you find out that your partner is wanting divorce, it’s like a traffic accident, everything goes into a slow motion.

You can see it all unveiling around you, but you just don’t know what to do, or who to talk to. Whether it comes as a sudden shock or more gradually, divorce and separation brings emotional confusion to peoples’ lives and challenging issues to their finances.

The SFP founder Bill Bracey features in a TV series - Your Best Interests (www.yourbestinterests.com.au) is about financial advice and the difference it makes to the lives of everyday Australians...

The key to building wealth is to spend less than you earn, invest appropriately, stick to your plan, and start early.

...Without the Bullshit

The Global Financial World has had a lot going on over recent years. Ever since the Global Financial Crisis, interest in the economic situation has peaked among the general public, although it is easy to get lost in the financial jargon.

My old soccer coach was a wise man. He had a saying “when in doubt, kick it out”.

He would always say if you’re under stress and someone’s bearing down on you at 100 miles an hour and you need to make a quick decision, if the passing option isn’t clear, if there’s risk of an interception or a miskick – just kick it out.

I recently had to go to an eye specialist. The guy I went to was recommended to me as the best in his field.

I showed up at the clinic on time, feeling a little nervous and unsure of what was happening next.

Market corrections , market dips, bear markets..... who loves them? Not many...but what if I told you that maybe you should…?

Actually, they’re never called any of the above. They’re always called a crash.