Thoughts on money, from a Financial Planner in Perth
Michael O'Hara 
It’s fascinating how our minds work. Place a keyword in front of your eyes, and your mind will immediately prepare your thinking for whatever it assumes will follow. Hence the title of this post. We have all heard the schoolyard trick of asking a person a series of easy questions, followed by one with the … Read more
Like it or hate it, our little blue planet spinning in space is currently focussed on money. Sport, gardening and cooking shows may interrupt for a while but all across the globe the big competition is money. Economic World Title Fight It is not really a stretch to say that looking at the way countries and … Read more
Which is the best super fund, and how will you decide between the thousands of options on offer?
A greater social awareness of global impacts from day-to-day activites is encouraging higher levels of engagement from investors. However, in the step up to identify ethically and socially acceptable investment ideas, care should be taken to ensure the outcomes are what we want them to be.
Australian’s are currently faced with a range of difficult global factors that bring uncertainty and fear into visions of the future. How do you plan in times such as these? Firstly, by ignoring the vast bulk of the material presented as news and getting back to working out what makes you happy, what will make you happy in the future, and how much you are prepared to do to make these things happen.
It has been an eventful couple of weeks. Time is short at the moment, so todays’ post will make comments without directing you to a lot of the underlying data. In other words, we are going to mainly consider my thoughts and judgements as opposed to facts and analysis. There is an enormous level … Read more
When faced with the prospects of retirement, and in deciding on how to best live the non-working life, one of the more popular choices recently has been to opt for what has been termed a “Sea Change”. In the case of one of our clients, the phrase has taken on a new meaning – as in, … Read more
For most Australians, there isn’t even a question in this statement. Retate the question as “when to buy a home”, and you’re probably closer to the mark. Maybe even “how to buy a home”. It is borderline heresay to phrase it as “don’t buy a home if…”. If you don’t want to read my background … Read more
Everyone has most likely heard enough about the European Union and their problems with the debt loads of Ireland, Spain, Portugal and Greece. There has certainly been enough in the news over the past year. i have posted a comment or two on the issue to try to provide a little more balance on the … Read more
This is not something i am remotely familiar with but it IS Friday, and the start of a new financial year so why not look at something a little bit different? There is a group called Private Fleet, who offer a vehicle buying service. Their website has recently published an article suggesting the prices Australians are … Read more