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 | 4 Dec 2017 | Business, General, Home loans
There are many mornings when I drive over to Nick’s place to pick him up. As he climbs into the passenger seat of my car and states “I love my life”, I know then that it’s going to be a day of laughter. Even when Nick announces “I hate my life” we still end up finding...
by Nick Rainsford | 20 Nov 2017 | Business, General, Home loans, SMSF
Every now and then you find out why things happened sometime after they’ve already happened. At times these are minor things like why my son, who was near the top of his class for science, failed the end of year exam. I found out a week later and while a little...
by Nick Rainsford | 13 Nov 2017 | Business, General, Investments
About 10 years ago my local council started an eradication program to rid the local area of feral foxes. Initially, people were happy but as time went by and as some pesky newcomers moved in, the euphoria of lynching the foxes didn’t last. Within a few months people...
by Nick Rainsford | 22 Oct 2017 | Business, General, Home loans
There are some brands that mean something to consumers. Indeed, much to the joy of their marketing teams, their brand names have passed into our daily lexicon to signify a particular function or quality unique to their products or services. My mother, for example,...
by Nick Rainsford | 15 Oct 2017 | Business, General, Home loans
I think it was Woody Allen who said that 80% of life is just showing up. Some of us are blessed in that we’re the type of people that things just happen to. Sometimes, these are bad things but mostly – especially since 10 June 1970 (the day I arrived in Australia)...
