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Financial Insights & Updates – April 2024
Our video this month ‘Cleaning up after Storms’ provides tips on what to do in the aftermath of severe storms, covering 1. Your safety, 2. Contacting your insurer, 3. Cleaning up. Our header article ‘The impact of natural disasters on property values and insurance’ then looks at how natural disasters such as storms, cyclones, flooding and bushfires can have a number of flow-on effects for those not directly affected that are of particular importance to homeowners and first home buyers.
Financial Insights & Updates – February 2024
Our video this month ‘How to Create a Zero-based Budget’, along with our article ‘Zero-based budgeting – Making every dollar count’, provides you with information on a method of budgeting that is ideal for people who love details and want to know where every single cent goes.
Financial Insights & Updates – January 2024
If you have yet to spend some time assessing your financial situation and making plans for 2023, it is still not too late because January is Financial Wellness Month. Financial wellness is a state of being in which you can fully meet your current and future financial obligations while feeling secure in your financial future and making choices that allow you to enjoy life.
Financial Insights & Updates – Aug 2023
The year seems to have flown past and we are now in the second quarter of the year, with Easter over and ANZAC Day coming up. This month we have our first quarterly economic update for the year.
Financial Insights & Updates – April 2023
The year seems to have flown past and we are now in the second quarter of the year, with Easter over and ANZAC Day coming up. This month we have our first quarterly economic update for the year.
Financial Insights & Updates – January 2023
If you have yet to spend some time assessing your financial situation and making plans for 2023, it is still not too late because January is Financial Wellness Month. Financial wellness is a state of being in which you can fully meet your current and future financial obligations while feeling secure in your financial future and making choices that allow you to enjoy life.
Financial Insights & Updates – October 2022
For many Australians, the primary goal of investing is to accumulate sufficient assets to fund a comfortable retirement and if you are close to retiring, you need to beware of the little-known sequence of returns (sequencing) risk that could take a huge slice out of your retirement income.
Financial Insights & Updates August 2022
A sharp increase in inflation caused by rising costs of fuel, food and transport has sparked talks of an economic phenomenon associated with the 1970s and early 1980s: stagflation.
Financial Insights & Updates June 2022
As both inflation and interest rates continue to be tipped to rise, it is becoming increasingly important to limit spending and increase savings.
