While the world continues on in a seemingly perpetual state of constant rocks and rolls, where down seems to be up and up seems to be down and nothing quite makes sense, the alarm bells are once again ringing…ringing in a new year with increased speculation of a global property price correction. The Organisation for […]

Many baby boomers on the brink of retirement have been looking forward to a post work life free of financial burdens, having amassed super funds and/or investment portfolios they were fortunate enough to accumulate during a number of rather impressive market booms. This was a generation that saved its pennies, took out small and feasible […]

Feast or famine seems to be the order of the day in most major property markets right now. Either the media is flagging runaway price growth, at which point regulators jump in and start enforcing borrowing boundaries on the banks. Or we hear of a ‘one in three year’ slowdown event. Ironically, both are reported […]

Often when we start to reach that transitional point in life, where retirement is not as far away as it once was and post-work cashflow questions are at the forefront of our fiscal considerations, we also face the conundrum of living off a single income. It’s generally right when we’re in the midst of raising […]