by Nick Rainsford | 30 Apr 2018 | Business, General, Home loans, SMSF
I caught up with a couple of old friends recently whom I was quite fond of and whom I hadn’t seen for around twenty years. I’ve been doing that a lot recently. When we met it was as if we’d seen each other yesterday. The conversation flowed as it...
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 | 3 Oct 2017 | Business, General, Home loans, Investments, SMSF
We hear a lot about people getting ripped off by banks, financial planners, builders, mortgage brokers, real estate agents, tradesmen…the list goes on and on. One could be forgiven for thinking that our entire society is based on ripping one another off. In the US and...
by Nick Rainsford | 17 Jul 2017 | Business, General, Home loans, Investments, Leasing, SMSF, Uncategorized
Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life. Proverbs 13:12 I think I may have named this article incorrectly. It should probably be called “Why You Need Mortgage Brokers Now More Than Ever”. You may have read a little about mortgage...
by Nick Rainsford | 26 Jun 2017 | Business, Financial Thymes newsletter, General, Home loans, Investments, Leasing, SMSF, Uncategorized
As I suggested in my article last week, the days when interest rates are dictated by the RBA appear to be over – at least for now. During the week, a couple of financial earthquakes – which had been predicted previously by some in the media – occurred. Namely, Moody’s...