by admin | May 19, 2022 | Economics, Family, Federal Budget, First Home, Housing, Lifestyle, Superannuation
The Election on Saturday sees the LNP and ALP hungry for First Home Buyer votes Both policies are extremely different to each other and we will look at them in due course, but first I wanted to take the time to recap the policies that are currently available for...
by admin | Apr 29, 2022 | Economics, Housing, Index, Interest Rates, Investing, RBA
Outlook for Investment Markets The global economic outlook has become more difficult. Inflation has proved to be a bigger problem than expected, and financial markets are now more concerned that central banks, in their efforts to bring inflation down, may raise...
by admin | Apr 29, 2022 | Economics, Interest Rates, Investing, Lifestyle, RBA
Philip Lowe has managed to put off raising rates as he waits for wage inflation to start to occur which originally he pointed to the end of 2022 at the earliest, and was originally saying inflation was transitory in nature. However as Australia comes off the back of a...
by admin | Mar 25, 2022 | Economics, Index, Interest Rates, Investing, RBA, Retirement
The Fed has made a move, increasing the US cash rate by 25 basis points with another 6 rate rises planned for the year. Philip Lowe of the RBA is maintaining his “prepared to be patient” rhetoric, however that hasn’t stopped the 90day rate doubling in the past 3...
by admin | Feb 23, 2022 | Debt, Economics, Federal Budget, Investing
Both bonds and equities have lost ground for the year to date. Bonds have weakened in a world of unexpectedly high inflation, which has prompted central banks to start raising interest rates. Equities have suffered as monetary policy looks to tighten more than...
by admin | Feb 16, 2022 | Economics, Family, Federal Budget, First Home, Housing, Insurance, Lifestyle, Retirement, Superannuation, Tax
First change we have is the Removal of the work test for NCCs and Salary Sacrifice. This means that clients aged between 67 and 74 will no longer have to meet the work test to make Non-Concessional Contributions (including using the bring forward rule, where all...
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