by Nick Rainsford | 25 Jul 2016 | General, Home loans, Investments, SMSF
Over the last few months I have begun to notice a despondency amongst some younger people about their lot in life. Specifically, how out of reach home ownership is for them. However, there’s no need to panic. It’s tempting to start an article like this with...
by Nick Rainsford | 18 Jul 2016 | Business, General, Home loans, Investments, SMSF
There is an argument around today that given banks have been the cause of so much economic grief over the past decade, we should curb their ability to operate, nationalise them or, more dramatically, simply close them down – presumably in favour of something else....
by Nick Rainsford | 15 Jul 2016 | Business, General, Home loans, Investments, SMSF
Lately we’ve been playing catch up. Lenders adjust their rates so often that, at times, as soon as we’ve issued a price comparison to a client, it’s out of date – made redundant by the aforesaid changes that lenders put into affect. When the price changes are in...
by Nick Rainsford | 4 Jul 2016 | Business, General, Home loans, Investments, SMSF
The human race has seen extraordinary advancements in the last 100 years. We have never failed to move forward, do better, strive harder…until the last decade. Take the development of the Concorde. It was developed in the 1960’s jointly by the British and the French....
by Nick Rainsford | 27 Jun 2016 | Business, General, Investments, SMSF, Uncategorized
If you’ve been reading the headlines recently you may have stumbled upon predictions of doomsdays ahead for the property market should one party or the other win and succeed in introducing their policies. Here’s the thing…don’t believe a word of it. Since the mid...
by Nick Rainsford | 20 Jun 2016 | General, Home loans, Investments
In our line of work we meet many different people. People from all walks of life. Rich, poor, healthy, unhealthy, educated, uneducated, theists, atheists, men, women, transgender, gay, straight, able, disabled…you get the picture. One thing I’ve noticed is the...