by Nick Rainsford | 8 May 2016 | Business, General, Home loans, Investments, SMSF
Every property boom in living memory has ended badly. This one will be no different. There will be tears…eventually. Please don’t ask me when. If I knew the answer I wouldn’t have my wife staring daggers at me while I push this article out on Mothers Day. For the...
by Nick Rainsford | 21 Mar 2016 | Business, General, Home loans, Investments, Leasing, SMSF
You may have read in the press recently what I have been banging on about since Nick and I started this business. If not, you can read about it here. The article in the smh – which is around 9 months late – states that APRA’s actions have successfully reined in the...
by Nick Rainsford | 29 Feb 2016 | Business, General, Investments, SMSF
We’ve all had to endure help desks or the ironically named “customer service officer” when trying to resolve an error, a fault, a bill error or some other issue. Usually, after going through a frustrating automated menu, with the repeated message beginning with the...
by Nick Rainsford | 15 Feb 2016 | Business, General, Investments, SMSF
Our financial institutions split their organisations into various segments. Invariably, they target most of us at the lowest (retail) segment and institutions at the highest. The middle is defined as everything in between. Most banks define this middle as any...
by Nick Rainsford | 4 Oct 2015 | Business, General, Home loans, SMSF, Uncategorized
It’s amazing what you get used to. What was once abhorrent to us becomes normal. As a young idealist you may have once said that I will never work in a dead-end job. However the realities of life force most of us to compromise those hard and fast ideals and settle for...
