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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.
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.
At Sapience, we're all about The How.
New regulations will soon change the way accountants talk about a Self Managed Superannuation Funds (SMSF)
When it comes to giving advice about SMSF's, most accountants previously provided advice under an accountant's exemption from having to be a licenced financial adviser. As of 1 July 2016, that’s about to change.
Professional people managing their own chronic health conditions need their own life insurance adviser
Many people in professional business use life insurance products but ... what do you do when your business partner tells you 'the business needs to get life insurance in place to cover the business debts', but doesn't know you've been diagnosed with diabetes?
Modern Estate Planning is about a workable plan – not just a Will
It involves a powerful combination of 5 key documents and an ongoing management system that works quietly in the background for you as a personal backup system.
So what’s your Plan B? (just in case)
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There is power in playfulness …
Many of our clients remember fondly first playing with LEGO bricks at a young age and perhaps accumulating more plastic blocks than would be considered healthy and might rival the typical Tupperware collections of old.
The same enjoyment is now making inroads into corporate thinking with programs such as LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY®.
Are these Australia’s Coolest Business Cards?
Our new LEGO themed business cards have arrived at Sapience!
Why every parent needs a Plan B for their children's future
The effect of the death of a parent on our children's future
Can we measure the future impact of the loss of a parent? While this is different from family to family, what is measurable is the effect of the financial loss during the most difficult time in a child's life.
A report by ING Australia studied the future impact the loss of a parent can have on a family and the role sound financial advice can play in helping families pick up the pieces. Additional research was conducted 5 years later by ANZ with similar results.
- 7 Quick questions about your estate plan
- Co-Owners and the new way to buy property and help your kids
- Common mistakes with Employer Super Obligations
- SMSF and Liquidity Risks
- Life is complicated without the instructions
- The sensible reason why we do irrational things with money
- Good character matters in people, it matters in organisations too
