Trauma: Exploring beyond the big four

When considering the potential for a future claim on our Trauma insurance, we often think about the big four traumatic medical events e.g. heart attack, stroke, cancer and coronary artery bypass. It is important to remember that contemporary trauma insurance policies now also provide greater … [Read more...]

Google – Year in Search 2016

2016 was an eventful year in the finance world. With all this in mind, we provide you with a short video that looks back on 2016, to take some time to consider milestones that you have personally reached and how you are tracking for your future goals and objectives.  Launch video... This article … [Read more...]

President-elect Trump: What should you do?

In light of Donald Trump’s recent victory in the U.S. election, this short video by a respected research house, Morningstar Investment Management, provides information on President-elect Donald Trump’s initial impact on the economic market as well as potential short, medium, and long-term … [Read more...]

Look beyond borders: 4 minutes experiment

According to Matthieu Ricard, “Empathy is the faculty to resonate with the feelings of others. When we meet someone, who is joyful, we smile. When we witness someone in pain, we suffer in resonance with his or her suffering.” In this short video, we see the power that empathy has when two people … [Read more...]

A ‘Living’ Will: Advanced care directives

We generally expect that our wishes for medical treatment will be respected, but what happens when we are not able to make decisions, due to an accident, sudden illness, or a progressive disease. Having an advanced care directive is a way to ensure that our preferences for medical treatment are … [Read more...]

TPD claim definitions explored

For many of us Total and Permanent Disablement cover forms a component of our overall personal insurance plan; in the event of a disabling sickness or injury it has been designed to help to take the financial stress off the table at a time when our world has been turned upside-down. In this article, … [Read more...]

The three-bucket approach to retirement investing

When devising a retirement plan, there are several different strategies that a financial adviser can employ to make sure that you have enough to meet your retirement lifestyle needs. This may or may not include relying in part or in whole on other sources of income such as the Age Pension at some … [Read more...]

Building your team: Financial adviser

The term synergy is derived from the Greek word συνεργία; it refers to the creation of a whole that is greater than the simple sum of its parts. In this animation, we explore how building your own personal finance team (each with their own unique skills), and then directing them towards a specific … [Read more...]

Give yourself a pep talk

Life is full of long and windy turns, obstacles and tough decisions, which is why some of us may take the path of least resistance and subsequently find ourselves falling short of what we set out to originally achieve. Taking the ‘road less travelled’, towards building personal wealth, begins with … [Read more...]

Sports betting & gambling can really hurt you

There’s been recent cover in the news on how we are becoming increasingly exposed to gambling, due in part to the many options now available to us online. Being more informed can help you gain a better understanding of how gambling can impact you and your family. Read more... … [Read more...]