by Nick Rainsford | 18 Jan 2016 | Business, General, Home loans, Investments, SMSF
Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent. Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent. – John Maynard Keynes. It is a valuable lesson for the second largest economy on the planet, more specifically, it’s investors....
by Nick Rainsford | 18 Jan 2016 | Business, General, Home loans, Investments, Leasing, SMSF
In past articles I have written about how banks have been forced to become more conservative in their residential property lending. They have generally done this by reducing LVR’s tightening servicing requirements, increasing living expenses and using price as a way...
by Nick Rainsford | 11 Jan 2016 | Business, General, Home loans, Investments, SMSF, Uncategorized
To quote Polonius more completely than the title suggests: Neither a borrower nor a lender be For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. William Shakespeare, ca. 1598, Hamlet Act 1, Scene 3 When Hamlet was first performed in...
by Nick Rainsford | 4 Jan 2016 | General, SMSF
Happy New Year to all of our clients, referrers and followers. We hope 2016 is a good year for all of you. Last year saw us receive many enquiries by wide-eyed investors about buying property within their Self Managed Superannuation Funds (“SMSF”). After a...
by Nick Rainsford | 28 Dec 2015 | General, Home loans, Investments, SMSF
This time of year can be pretty slow work wise and most companies are running on skeleton staff. From a personal point of view it’s a great time to stop putting off having a look at your largest expense and cleanup your mortgage. In the past few months our own...
by Nick Rainsford | 21 Dec 2015 | General, Uncategorized
Merry Christmas to all of our clients, referrers and followers In the last two weeks, the press has been in a lather about the UN Climate Change conference held in Paris. It is worthwhile travelling down memory lane to see how the world has behaved in the past when it...
