by Nick Rainsford | 4 Jul 2019 | Uncategorized
Writer’s block is not something I have ever been afflicted with as I’m not a writer. However, in the past few weeks I’ve been stuck. Every time I sat down and began writing an article about a particular topic, another topic would come to me that I think people will be...
by Nick Rainsford | 20 Jan 2018 | Business, General
In April last year an old school friend contacted me. He had, quite deliberately, placed himself in a very stressful and quite dangerous financial predicament. He was working with his accountant to find a solution but he wanted to double check with us as trusted...
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 | 30 Jul 2017 | Business, General, Home loans, Leasing, SMSF
I know a couple of parents who live in suburbia. For many years they were regarded by their family and friends as the perfect parents. Especially the mother. Her first two children (now adults) were perfect with no hint of mental illness or drug addiction or any other...
by Nick Rainsford | 22 May 2017 | Business, Financial Thymes newsletter, General, Home loans, Investments, Leasing, SMSF
You may have read about how the Baby Boomers have stolen all the property in the capital cities and left the other generations – X, Y, Z and Millenials (collectively “Whatever”) – destitute. Well, not quite but you can be forgiven for thinking that as a...