by Nick Rainsford | 4 Dec 2017 | Business, General, Home loans
There are many mornings when I drive over to Nick’s place to pick him up. As he climbs into the passenger seat of my car and states “I love my life”, I know then that it’s going to be a day of laughter. Even when Nick announces “I hate my life” we still end up finding...
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 | 24 Sep 2017 | Business, General
I didn’t think I would be contemplating a career in my mid 50’s. I had always planned to retire at the ripe old age of 58. Then a series of events happened that forced me to rethink and re-educate myself to go on. Adversity taught me to be resilient again. I had...
by Nick Rainsford | 25 Aug 2017 | Business, General, Home loans, Investments, Leasing, SMSF
You could be forgiven for thinking that interest rates occupy our minds more than any other topic. Every time a bank moves rates one way or another, it’s headline news. Even when the RBA doesn’t move rates there’s a news story about it. We’ve been conditioned to think...
by Nick Rainsford | 20 Aug 2017 | Business, General
I used to work at a bank the CEO of which used to worship at the altar of tech companies like Apple, Google, Microsoft etc. He used to wonder why the culture of a tech company could not pervade that of a bank. Oh, and he was also originally hired into banking from a...
