30 Aug 2024

Property investment terminology, benchmarking, and improving your return.

By Jane Purnell

Getting your head around property investment. If you’re a first-time investor, or you just want to better understand the lingo and investment performance measures, we’ve got you. We’ve put together easy to understand stats, facts and figures that any savvy property investor should get familiar with. To make life as an investor even easier, we’ve included some actions you can take if your property is not measuring up plus opportunities to look for if it

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8 Apr 2024

Tax Changes- What it will mean to me?

By Jane Purnell

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced changes to address ongoing cost of living pressures with all 13.6 million Australian taxpayers receiving a tax cut from 1 July 2024, compared to the tax they paid in 2023-24. Now is the time to assess what it means to your hip pocket and what implications it may have for end of financial year planning as a result of the new rules, due from 1 July 2024. The Federal Government has

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5 Mar 2024

Options to Invest Your Self-Managed Super Fund

By Jane Purnell

Over one million Australians have embraced increased autonomy over retirement funds by opting for a self-managed super fund (SMSF). An SMSF offers the advantage of diversifying investments across a wider array of asset classes compared to conventional superannuation funds. Prioritising your financial objectives is essential when evaluating investment opportunities. While conservative assets (cash and bonds) offer stable cash flow, growth assets such as property, shares (Australian and global) and commodities contribute to wealth accumulation. Below

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5 Mar 2024

Are Cryptocurrencies Now Main-Stream Investments?

By Jane Purnell

It seems anyone you speak with is talking about how much they have in a particular “crypto” or how they want to own crypto. What is driving the latest interest in the sector?The best known of the cryptocurrencies is Bitcoin (BTC), so let’s use BTC as a proxy for all crypto as to a large extent, it sets the tone for how the currencies are perceived by traders. BTC reached its all-time high price of

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