Debt Man column – The West Australian (Money) For: June 14, 2010. Bruce Brammall Debt Man Life seemed pretty simple in Bedrock. Neighbours with Fred and Wilma, Barney and Betty, with Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm chasing dog-dinosaur Dino around the yard. Work usually involved some form of stone – you were either breaking it up at […]
PORTFOLIO POINT: The average SMSF balance will most likely top $1 million this year. Australia’s average SMSF balance could top $1 million this month with the aid of a small recovery in property and equity markets and Australia’s usual end-of-financial-year flurry of contributions. The average DIY super balance was within a whisker of topping seven […]
Hey, it’s June! And June is “grand final” time for personal finances – time to minimise your taxes. And $1000 can give some great tax time rewards. “I hate tax time!” I hear you scream. Shame, I reckon. People who hate tax time usually pay more tax than they have to. That’s a cardinal sin, […]
PORTFOLIO POINT: Shares are out and property’s dominance is entrenched in the NEW super gearing laws, quietly announced in recent days. It was bound to happen. Assistant editor James Frost and I hold a webinar on the gearing laws inside SMSFs and … a week later, the government goes and changes the law. It was […]
Can a sci-fi expert answer me this question? Why hasn’t Captain Kirk ever teamed up with Luke Skywalker? As two almost tsunamic forces of intergalactic, yet-to-happen, history, they must know of each other. They must be curious to meet. Have they seriously never caught up over a beer? No, they haven’t. Why? Because they’re opposites. […]
PORTFOLIO POINT: Like none before it, superannuation will be a hot button for this year’s federal election. Many Australians might choose to vote on super itself. There comes a point in most people’s lives – and it tends to be some time after turning 50 or 55 – that superannuation becomes the most important financial […]
“Learn the rules. Then play them.” From birth, say my parents, I wanted to know what the rules were, so I knew the boundaries. My brother Dirk, however, liked to know where the boundaries were so he knew what to jump over to get to where the fun started. Every game, every workplace, every relationship, […]
PORTFOLIO POINT: Detail is desperately required from the Rudd Government on its extension of the new contribution rules for the over 50s. Following a major news event, it’s usually only a matter of days before the first jokes come out. That is, “insert previous applicable joke here”. Towards the end of last year, it was […]
Debt Man column – The West Australian (Money) For: May 17, 2010. Bruce Brammall Debt Man News always travels fast. And while good news moves fast enough, bad news travels like the Millennium Falcon. In this age of Crackberries and iPhones, you can’t escape bad news anywhere. Not if you leave the office. Not in […]
Billy Joel claimed his Boomer generation “didn’t start the fire”. Maybe, but they certainly fuelled it. Gen X will make it worse. And our Gen Y and Z kids will add to it also. Progress has meant that more and more wants can be satisfied immediately. From pay-TV to i-Phones, from digital cameras to the […]
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