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, 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 […]
Bruce Brammall, The West Australian, 18 February, 2019 A few years ago, a well-to-do gentleman called, asking for some help with a few matters financial. He was a smart man, and generally considered financially savvy. But one thing he felt he needed help with was his mortgages. We took a look at […]
Bruce Brammall, The West Australian, 4 February, 2019 Some things are simply unfathomable – impossible to imagine happening. Like Australians learning to like tennis brat Nick Kyrgios. Or a Gold Coast Suns premiership. Or, possibly, that Australians would ever shun the “plastic fantastic”. Our obsession with credit cards goes close to our love […]
Bruce Brammall, The West Australian, 21 January, 2019 If investors were to list their fears for 2019, then “Labor federal election victory” might top the charts for property lovers. The ALP has a deep-seated hatred of real estate investors. It’s current platform would be the most anti-property investor policies taken into an election in […]
Bruce Brammall, The West Australian, 26 November, 2018 If you’ve got a big investment property decision to make heading into retirement, I hope you’ve got a huge tax bill coming. I’m not being nasty! It’s certainly way better than the alternative. What you don’t want heading into retirement is to be sitting on a capital […]
Bruce Brammall, The West Australian, 12 November, 2018 A couple of times a year, we all face some big choices about how to blow some “spare” time. One of mine happened in recent days. My choice was around spending hours boning up on planning laws to try to determine whether a neighbour’s knockdown and […]
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