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Welcome to our Personal Finance Blog
Money bewilders most of us. How to spend it, save it, invest it, and how to best protect the person who makes it.
These questions we all face daily — a puzzle we all attempt to understand and solve just about every day. Yet despite money's centrality to our lives and businesses, it's something we all grapple with, and mostly in private.
- Money is the 'Lord Voldemort' of topics — feared by most and mentioned by a few. It's oddly uncomfortable to discuss socially and rarely even with our partners, parents, and children.
Perhaps that's because managing our money and life's risks inevitably involves the fusion of both the emotional and practical aspects of our decision-making processes. The most difficult of questions are those with both economic and emotional answers.
At Sapience, we're all about The How.
Our educational Personal Finance Blog is for people who want to grow and remain wealthy. And while the journey toward wealth is clearly marked, you still have to be looking in the right direction.
What to do before you’re really rich
Good things, they say take time, but that's not going to work when it comes to protecting your family's future. Some things, especially when it comes to protecting and providing, have to be the priority, and even have an element of urgency.
But what if I can't afford it, yet? What if I'm not rich enough, yet?
What if, ... and the list will go on.
A Practical Guide to Your Power of Attorney and Enduring Guardianship documents in Australia
You’d think appointing someone to make legal decisions for you in case of a future emergency, would be simple. In Australia, you’d be wrong. What’s called an ‘Enduring Guardianship’ document (EPOG) in Sydney requires a completely different document in Melbourne or an ‘Advance Care Directive’ in Adelaide - each with its own strict and unique witnessing requirements.
The Plan Your Spouse Thinks You Already Have
If your Mortgage Repayments rely on two incomes, what happens when one income is gone?
As a risk insurance specialist, I see all too often hard working Australian families, who seemingly have doing everything right - juggling two incomes, a home to call their own, yet they're walking a financial tightrope daily that they see as simply, the 'new normal' and feeling powerless to protect themselves from it's very real risks.
Why Frank Sinatra Was Wrong About 'My Way' (And Your Money)
There comes a time in everyone's life and business when they need to consider, 'Can they safely DIY or should they seek and take advice?' You see this in remnants of the self-made-man ideology where people are supposed to be inspired by the 'feigned rugged individualism'. So the ledgend goes, such folks in life and business never seemed to need anybody's support, guidance, encouragement and counsel; and ultimately triumph - as sung by the now seemingly immortal words of singer Frank Sinatra, 'I did it my way.' *
The Unwritten Chapter: Options for Your Life Insurance Policy when you're living with a really, long term life threatening illness
When you're diagnosed with a chronic illness, your world shifts. Amid the emotional upheaval and the unexpected costs of budgeting for the costs of the new medical realities, the last thing you need is another source of stress. But for some, that's what their life insurance policy becomes: a monthly bill you wonder should you continue to pay, in a future that's now less predictable?
What do you legally need to do when you end a de facto relationship?
Have you found yourself single again? Have you recently ended a de facto relationship and are wondering, 'Well, what next?" Love, Life and Business are complicated (and often interconnected), so the process of 'decoupling' can take a while.
Navigating the aftermath of a de facto separation is one of life's most challenging experiences. For most folks who have never formally registered their de facto relationship status, this means there is also no form to complete, to 'unregister your relationship,' informing the world of your change in relationship status.
- Protecting Inheritances: The Bankruptcy Trust in a Protective Will Explained
- Protecting Inheritances: The Superannuation Proceeds Trust in a Protective Will Explained
- How many times you can claim on a personal insurance policy?
- Getting Life and Disability Insurance when you're living with Sleep Apnea
- How to Appoint your Own Medical Decision Maker - your Person Responsible
- Surgery Prep? The Financial & Estate Planning Checklist You Need To Know
- Can your Mistress (or Gay Lover) claim an inheritance from your estate?
