by Nick Rainsford | 9 Jan 2017 | Business, General, Home loans, Investments, Leasing, SMSF, Uncategorized
I was watching the Godfather trilogy a few weeks ago. In one particular scene one of the members of the Corleone family (the main crime family in the film trilogy) is about to be executed when he utters the words “tell Michael it was only business”. Then he was...
by Nick Rainsford | 26 Dec 2016 | Business, General, Home loans, Investments, Leasing, SMSF, Uncategorized
We, at Thyme Financial, wish all our readers, clients and referrers a happy and safe holiday season and a tremendous 2017. Christmas is now a distant memory and not long after the left-over prawns, turkey and vegetables are consigned to this year’s last rubbish...
by Nick Rainsford | 19 Dec 2016 | Business, General, Home loans, Investments, Leasing, SMSF, Uncategorized
There are things in life that we take for granted. For a random set of examples say the air that we breathe, the love of another human being, a change of prime ministers every couple of years and the fact that the sun will rise in the east each day. It’s a little like...
by Nick Rainsford | 12 Dec 2016 | Business, Financial Thymes newsletter, General, Home loans, Investments, Leasing, Uncategorized
In a conversation with a few friends a couple of weeks ago – and while we were all expressing collective dismay at the current state of banking in Australia and globally (as you do when the sticky wine is being served ahead of the cheese platter) – the topic turned to...
by Nick Rainsford | 4 Dec 2016 | General, Home loans, Investments, SMSF, Uncategorized
When your read the news these days you can be forgiven for thinking that the world will come to an end if we don’t put a price cap on the following: Electricity prices Gas prices Fuel prices Telecommunications (mobile phone plans really) There is one expense that (in...
by Nick Rainsford | 21 Nov 2016 | Business, General, Home loans, Investments, Leasing, SMSF, Uncategorized
When did we start using the idioms of today? You know the one’s. In this article I’ll use italics to signify some of the idiotic expressions that have replaced the core values of doing business. You read about disruption of one industry or another these days as if it...
