Technology has made everyday life easier. We take photos without thinking where they’re stored, pay bills without opening a drawer and carry our financial lives around on a device the size of a hand. But when someone dies, all this convenience can suddenly turn into complexity. The digital traces we leave behind rarely sit in … Read more
Estate planning is one of those tasks almost everyone means to get to, yet many only face it during a crisis. Families often describe the same moment. A parent dies, the surviving spouse and children open a cupboard or a laptop, and suddenly they are trying to reconstruct a life from scattered paperwork, half remembered … Read more
Getting on top of your finances is one of the most common new year’s resolutions Australians make. But only 12% of us achieve our goal. Here’s how to be one of them. More than one in two Australians (52%) plan to get on top of their finances each year, according to research from the Federal … Read more
You’ve spent your entire adult life working and now it’s time to kick back and do more of the things that interest you – whether perfecting your golf handicap, travelling the world or spending time with the grandkids, retirement is a time for an entirely new lifestyle. Set up a spending plan It takes 12 … Read more