Financial Planning Articles

If you’re aged between 30 and 50, and your financial mantra is something along the lines of “getting ahead,” then you’re definitely what we money coaches and financial planners call a ‘wealth accumulator’.

One asked, the other said yes. Woohoo! Congratulations! The next big step is to think about finances, because according to the research, weddings don’t come cheap these days.

Nick Molnar, the co-founder of Afterpay, once famously declared that: “Millennials are more scared of credit-card debt than they are of dying.”

You know what? I definitely don’t agree with him.

Even if you haven’t walked down the aisle and officially said those wedding vows out loud along with ‘I do,’ but you’re serious about a long-term relationship, then you need to get serious about money, too.

Property owners around the country are collectively rejoicing. After two rounds of official rate cuts from the Reserve Bank, many have just received notification that new rates are now in force and mortgage repayments will be reduced.

There’s an old saying that goes: ‘You are the company you keep’. Essentially, this means that a lot of who you are and what you stand for, is reflected in your closest relationships.