Double your return in 5 years

Successful investing is relatively easy but many people and some professionals over-complicate it. I have discovered that most people do not understand or fully appreciate two very important, yet simple principles. Firstly, there are typically two steps to a retirement strategy – most people think there’s only one and this is where they become misguided …

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It could take you 5 years or more to get out of a dud property investment. But how do you know if your property is a dud?

Last week a journalist asked me “what percentage of investors I thought owned dud investment properties?” It is an interesting question. My answer was that after over a decade of reviewing hundreds of investor portfolios I would estimate that approximately 60 % to 70% of people have a least one dud (under-performing) property. This fact …

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How to reduce the tax you pay

The below newsletter includes the following articles: 1. 30 June tax planning strategies 2. Did you pay too much tax last year 3. Time poor? Pilot our new services for free 4. Our lowest rates. 30 June tax planning strategies It’s hard to believe it’s almost 30 June again and the end of another tax …

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Is a SMSF right for you?

Below is a replay of a webinar held on 8 May 2012 which provided an introduction to SMSFs and discusses how to ascertain if a SMSF is right for you. If you would like to learn more of our SMSF services and advice, please contact us. Is a SMSF right for you? from Stuart Wemyss on …

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On change and pips…..

I ate a mandarin recently and got annoyed at the number of pips in my fruit (an average of 3 pips per segment…that’s a lot of pips). I wondered how much more enjoyable that mandarin would have been had it not had any pips. It struck me later that those pips, those little seeds, are …

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