by Nick Rainsford | 25 Feb 2018 | General, Home loans, Investments, SMSF
You may have read recently about various economic facts and figures as they have been made public by our economic sleuths. For instance, you may have heard about the levelling out (in some cases, a fall) in various housing markets around the country. You may have...
by Nick Rainsford | 7 Jan 2018 | Business, General
Happy New Year to all our clients, referrers, readers and friends. On New Year’s Eve we had our usual family bash at our house. This year we invited some people that we’d banished from our lives some 15 years ago. I am not known to be a forgiving person. I hold...
by Nick Rainsford | 3 Oct 2017 | Business, General, Home loans, Investments, SMSF
We hear a lot about people getting ripped off by banks, financial planners, builders, mortgage brokers, real estate agents, tradesmen…the list goes on and on. One could be forgiven for thinking that our entire society is based on ripping one another off. In the US and...
by Nick Rainsford | 16 Sep 2017 | Business, General
Most of us meander through our corporate careers with a burning ambition to learn. This learning serves us well to do our jobs better and if we’re lucky will result in a promotion. Then, repeat. By now, most of you with a few grey hairs will be mumbling profanities...
by Nick Rainsford | 20 Aug 2017 | Business, General
I used to work at a bank the CEO of which used to worship at the altar of tech companies like Apple, Google, Microsoft etc. He used to wonder why the culture of a tech company could not pervade that of a bank. Oh, and he was also originally hired into banking from a...
