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 | 8 May 2017 | Business, General, Investments, Uncategorized
I’d been wanting to read a book written by CIA agent, Robert Baer. The book – called See No Evil – was released just after 9/11. I wanted to wait for all the hype to die down before tackling the seriousness of the topic – failure of the CIA to detect and...
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 | 11 Jan 2016 | Business, General, Home loans, Investments, SMSF, Uncategorized
To quote Polonius more completely than the title suggests: Neither a borrower nor a lender be For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. William Shakespeare, ca. 1598, Hamlet Act 1, Scene 3 When Hamlet was first performed in...