Learn how we can help you make the right choices for life's important financial decisions
The key to your long-term financial success lies in how you manage your money day-to-day. Start developing good financial habits today—it pays to make the effort and can help you stay on track to achieve your goals.
Strategies for a positive financial future
Meeting your bills can be easier when you have strategies in place to help reach your goals. Financial advice can help you understand where your money’s going and help give you more confidence and control.
How we can help
We can help you simplify and streamline your finances so you can:
- Keep track of your money
- Understand how your spending and financial commitments fit in with you enjoying life today
- Have an appropriate budget and savings plan in place.
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Contact usThere is no time like the present to start making more of your money. Choosing the right investments at the right time could make all the difference to how much you end up with.
Help to choose well
You’re not alone if you feel overwhelmed by the investments on offer. It can be challenging to know which choice is right for you, and what risks you may face.
We’re here to share our knowledge and experience. We can create a plan to help you achieve financial success.
How we can help
If you’re unsure which steps are the right ones for you to take or when, we can help you prioritise your:
- Short-term goals—which may include saving for a holiday in the next six months to two years
- Medium-term goals—you may be thinking about investing in property, or considering starting a second career in the coming next two to five years.
- Long-term goals—perhaps you’re saving for your retirement or a child’s university in the next five to ten years.
Chat with us about how we can help you make more of your money.
Contact usPerhaps you’d like to buy a new car or save for your first home. You may be yearning for a trip somewhere. Financial advice can help you take practical steps to reach your goals.
Aim to make your dreams real
When it comes to making goals a reality, financial strategies can help you keep your eyes on the prize and stay on track. We can help you plan to meet your financial commitments today while working towards your longer-term goals.
How we can help
We can help you:
- Review and set specific goals.
- Work out how much to save for your short, medium and long term goals, and the dates for achieving them.
- Identify appropriate financial strategies to help bring your goals into reality.
Speak with us about how we can help you save for something special.
Contact usIf property’s on your mind, you may be aiming to buy your first home or invest in property. We can help you work out what you need to consider and help you reach your property goals.
The value of thinking ahead
Buying property comes with costs, upfront and ongoing. When it comes to managing the financial side of things, good advice could save you money. We can help you assess your financial position and how to make the most of property opportunities.
How we can help
It’s important to make the right choices when buying property. We can help you:
- Calculate how much you’ll be able to borrow.
- Work out the deposit you’re likely to need.
- Choose the most appropriate way to save for a deposit.
- Set a comfortable budget and timeframe.
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Contact usMarriage is an exciting milestone, and an important time for talking about financial change.
Plan as a couple
Wedding plans can bring many added expenses and the need to make financial decisions as a couple. When you plan ahead together, your financial decisions can be easier for both of you.
How we can help
We can help you manage your financial life together by helping you consider:
- The ways your marriage may affect your financial situation and your short, medium and long term goals.
- How you’ll manage money as a couple.
- Whether any existing debts will affect either of you.
- Any investments you hold and whether changes will be needed.
- The need for insurance such as income protection, death and total and permanent disability (TPD) insurance — and whether they’ll be appropriate for both of you.
Find out how we can help you enjoy a smooth financial life together.
Contact usMaking plans to start a family or increase your existing one can be a joy. And on a practical level, expenses can go up while your income drops if you take time off work.
Your financial picture
Usually one or both parents will take some time off work when a new baby arrives. While a reduction in income can present obvious short-term challenges, there can also be impacts on your long-term financial position.
How we can help
We’re here to help you look ahead and be financially prepared for all that comes with growing your family, which could include:
- The costs of raising children—including child care and education costs.
- The impact on your household income, and on other goals you have.
- How to meet upcoming expenses while setting a path to help your children’s financial future.
- The right insurance cover you might need to protect your family, such as income protection, death and total and permanent disability (TPD) insurance — and whether I’ll they’ll be appropriate for you and your family.
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Contact usNobody likes to think that things may go wrong but sometimes events beyond our control happen.
What if things change?
Even though you can’t see what tomorrow holds for you and your family, you can do something to protect them today.
A sudden or unexpected event or illness could potentially change your life in many ways. And the last thing any family needs is financial stress during a difficult time.
Protecting your family from the financial adversity an unforeseen event can cause could make a world of difference to them.
How we can help
Being ready could make the difference. We can help give you and your family peace of mind that in the event of your illness, injury or death, their lifestyle can be maintained.
We can help you determine the appropriate insurance cover – income protection, death and total and permanent disability (TPD), which may provide a lump sum or ongoing regular payments to your family if the need ever arises.
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Contact usThe end of a relationship brings a lot of change and is often a very difficult time. While the challenges are considerable, there is a real opportunity for you to seek professional financial help and work towards a positive future for yourself.
Taking the first steps
The emotional turmoil that a separation brings is often accompanied by the unwelcome need to manage many financial issues.
We can help you by working with your lawyer, or accountant or referring you to one. We’ll work with you to develop a way forward and help to address your immediate and longer term needs.
How we can help
If you’re going through a divorce or anticipating the end of your relationship, we’re here to help you:
- Review the impact of any divorce settlement on your financial situation.
- Understand your financial commitments.
- Identify any income you may be entitled to.
- Develop a new budget and help you stay on track to achieve your goals.
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Contact usIt could pay to plan ahead so you can have more choice about what you’ll do when you move on from work.
Help to plan ahead
Your retirement could be whatever you want it to be. But longer lifespans and earlier retirements bring the need to plan carefully, well in advance.
Your health and freedom to choose how you live your life will be fundamental to a long and happy retirement, and your strong financial position, key to an enjoyable lifestyle.
How we can help
The earlier you begin to plan for your comfortable retirement, the better off you may be. We’re here to help you:
- Understand your financial situation now and in retirement.
- Determine when you’ll have access to your super and how you may be able to maximise any Centrelink payments you may be entitled to receive.
- Calculate the amount you’ll need
by a particular date and plan for accumulating enough savings before you retire. - Identify appropriate strategies for funding your retirement lifestyle goals.
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Contact usIf you’re like many older Australians who are thinking about how to make the most of your retirement years, one of the most valuable things you can do to help yourself is to get on top of things financially.
Can you make more of your money?
Everyone’s idea of how much money they’ll need in retirement is different.
Even if you feel you don’t have a limitless supply of money, we may be able to help. We can work with you to create a plan for managing the money you do have, so you can know your spending limit while aiming to have enough later too.
How we can help
We can help show you how to make the most of your money in retirement, and help you:
- Achieve a balance between day-to-day spending and your long-term needs.
- Benefit from changing your financial arrangements if you’ve already retired.
- Access any benefits you may be entitled to, in addition to Centrelink.
- Understand how the value of your home can fit into your retirement plans if appropriate.
Speak with us about how we can help you make the most of your retirement funds.
Contact usYou may be planning to pass things onto your loved ones or you may have received an inheritance yourself.
Help to make the right decisions
There can be financial implications for those who receive assets as part of an inheritance, and decisions to be made.
It can be challenging to know what to do. Professional financial advice could help you have peace of mind that you are taking the right steps.
How we can help
Whether you’re a beneficiary or you’re leaving something behind, a valid will is important.
You may need help from a lawyer—we can work with yours or put you in touch with someone, so your estate planning needs can be met. We can also help you create a financial plan that considers your personal circumstances and helps you take care of your family’s future in the appropriate way.
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Contact usBecoming your own boss can be an exciting notion but it pays to plan ahead so you can make the most of your opportunities.
Ready for success
Make sure you’re in a position to benefit from working for yourself from the outset. You’ll have a better chance of business success when you consider all of your financial needs when starting a new business.
How we can help
Being in business can come with challenges. We can help you consider:
- Any financial planning aspects of your business plan.
- The impact on your super.
- Any financial plans you need to put in place when you exit the business.
Explore your options with the help of an expert.
Contact usWe provides solutions to large and small companies to improve their employee's financial future and strive to become employers of choice.
Services provided to the employers and employees include:
- Assistance with enquires and administration at both the employer and member level.
- Tailored seminars on financial topics requested by employees
- Educational seminars on super strategies
- Special mortgage offers
Explore your options with the help of an expert.
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