Business & Personal Finance

The Clock is Ticking

Joanne Porter, First Class Financial Group Your end of financial year checklist With the end of the financial year looming for June 30, many small business...

Aged care — more than a nursing home

MARK PLASKITT Is retirement not far off and you’re making plans for how you’ll take care of yourself or your parents as you/they get older?...

5 tips to get End Of Financial Year ready

MARK PLASKITT It’ll be tax time again before you know it, so what should you be doing before 30th June to make sure you’re prepared?...

Tightened lending conditions

Raj Ladher What you should know Over the past 12 to 24 months, mortgage lending has tightened up significantly. This is due to the regulators...

Do you fix it or keep it swinging?

RAJ LADHER With interest rates at a record low and tipped to start increasing over the next few months, is it time for you to...

Is it too late to invest in property?

MARK PLASKITT, MORTGAGE BROKER Let’s face it, in Australia - and particularly Sydney - we love property. Most people want to own their own homes,...

Making a will - why you can’t afford to put it off

MARK PLASKITT, FINANCIAL ADVISER To paraphrase Benjamin Franklin: the only things certain in life are death and taxes! It raises the issue of estate planning –...

New year, new me

RAJ LADHER Now is here it’s a great time to start the year with a financial tidy-up New year-new me! It’s a phrase used by...