by Nick Rainsford | 24 Oct 2016 | Business, General, Uncategorized
Over the past few decades there has been a relentless march by Australian banks to reduce costs. I used to work for three foreign banks in the 80s, 90s and naughties who used to laugh at Australian banks’ cost to income (CI) ratios – all below 50% (now in the low...
by Nick Rainsford | 19 Sep 2016 | General, Home loans, Investments, SMSF
One of my neigbours is a builder. He and I often chat when we run into each other in the front of our houses. He has a philosophy about his personal finances that would surprise most people. He is debt averse. In fact, he boasts that he has never owed a single dollar...
by Nick Rainsford | 5 Sep 2016 | Business, General, Home loans, Investments, SMSF
We at Thyme Financial are often astounded when clients tell us they had banked with a particular institution for decades and now in their late sixties they are met with bad service, products that are irrelevant or a loan rejection. That rejection may be for an...
by Nick Rainsford | 1 Aug 2016 | Business, General
Last week my son got his provisional drivers licence in the state of New South Wales. As a good citizen, I thought I would disclose to my insurer that a young driver with a provisional licence was now driving one or more of our cars. I dreaded doing this as I was time...
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....
