Bruce Brammall, 15 May, 2019, Eureka Report SUMMARY: Double “gotcha!” moment on the campaign trail! Sadly, proving neither leader understood their own superannuation policies. One of the great problems with superannuation’s complexity is that the chief idiots-in-charge don’t actually understand what it is they’re making rules about. Superannuation has tripped up many on the campaign trail […]
Bruce Brammall, The West Australian, 13 May, 2019 There’s a predictable front page splash happening very soon. Not if. Definitely when. Here’s the yarn: “Dad and two kids lose home, now destitute, because Mum’s insurance cancelled by government decree.” (Or, you know, some variation on mums and dads and kids.) Why? Because […]
Bruce Brammall, The West Australian, 29 April, 2019 When political promises are made, you largely take them at face value. “Party ABC stands for this”. If given the opportunity to govern, this is the policy they want to implement. For whatever stated reasons. Most of the time, no matter your political colours, you should be […]
Bruce Brammall, The West Australian, 15 April, 2019 Raising the white flag, when I was a really young lad, meant “surrender”. Giving in. Admitting defeat. It wasn’t until later that I learned it also meant a truce or ceasefire was being requested. Time to see if a negotiated settlement could replace hostilities. We recently had […]
Bruce Brammall, 17 April, 2019, Eureka Report SUMMARY: Don’t miss the opportunity to make bigger NCCs to your super fund by misunderstanding the rules. Here’s what you need to know. Getting money into super has become a great deal harder in recent years, with various layers of caps complicating one’s ability to contribute. There have been […]
Bruce Brammall, 3 April, 2019, Eureka Report SUMMARY: Some will be able to pump an an extra $250,000 into super from the Coalition’s Budget. Can you benefit? We’ve become conditioned in recent years that when superannuation comes up in a Budget, it ain’t gonna be good. The bad streak […]
Bruce Brammall, 5 March, 2019, Eureka Report SUMMARY: Low interest rates make the strategy of topping up super instead of paying down the home loan a worthwhile consideration. If you’re in your 50s, do you smash the home loan? Or contribute extra to super? Does one strategy beat the other, or is it really just “same […]
Bruce Brammall, 19 March, 2019, Eureka Report SUMMARY: A win for some little SMSF people and the figures showing buying off-the-plan is a financial disaster. Within a few minutes of Mary and Rohan sitting down with me, my blood had started to boil. Not because of them. They were an ordinary, hard-working, lovely, professional couple. […]
Bruce Brammall, The West Australian, 18 March, 2019 Bank share prices took an unexpected dive last month. And it was a moment Australians should have stood up and quietly applauded. You should have been cheering for your own back pocket. And maybe just a little bank bashing, because it’s a sport in Australia and, hell, […]
Bruce Brammall, The West Australian, 4 March, 2019 Something about bad things happening in threes? Well, that’s how many DIY super fund car wrecks I saw last week. Each was opened for very different reasons and, of course, with the best of intentions – to get on the self-managed superannuation fund super-highway. Sadly, each […]
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