Communicating with a senior — 5 tips for meaningful conversations
Whether it’s your parents or grandparents who are living with you, providing aged care comes with its own set of challenges. As time passes, you may realise that communicating with a senior can get more difficult as they advance in age. Daily encounters can become...[Read More]
What Is a Guarantor? Here’s All You Need to Know
Issuing loans or lending money comes with certain risks. This is why the majority of lenders require that borrowers provide a guarantor for their loan. If the borrower is unable to repay the debt on their own, a guarantor promises to do so in their stead. If you’re...[Read More]
Determining the Right Business Structure
All successful businesses depend on a solid and dependable structure. While you can always work it out as you go, improvisation in the business world is inefficient, highly risky, and likely to lead to failure. Getting the right systems in place from the start is very...[Read More]
Top 5 advantages of home ownership
Your decision to purchase a new house is a significant life event, and the thought of becoming a homeowner might be a little intimidating. However, homeownership brings with it several advantages, including the freedom to design your home as you wish, the capacity to...[Read More]
What you can do to protect yourself as scams evolve
In 2022, Australians fell victim to investment and cryptocurrency-related scams, losing $242.5 million (US$166 million). In the United Kingdom (UK), a total of over £2.3 billion was lost in 2021 because of various scams, including online shopping, dating or romance...[Read More]
Why Having Fun Is the Secret to a Healthier Life [TED Talk Video]
Have you had your daily dose of fun? It’s not just enjoyable, it’s also essential for your health and happiness, says science journalist Catherine Price. She proposes a new definition of fun — what she calls “true fun” — and shares easy,...[Read More]
Family Law – It’s a Complex and a Stressful Experience
Family law cases can be complex. In addition to the challenges of entering into an agreement that could affect your finances for years to come, you also have to deal with the stress and emotional aspects of legal actions involving your family members. Divorce, child...[Read More]
How to help your child with their first home
In today’s economic climate, it’s increasingly common to help your child with their first home. In this article, we’re going to look at three options to help you do this. Why not take a look at the pros and cons of each and choose the one that’s the best fit...[Read More]
How to Raise Successful Kids — Without Over-Parenting [TED Talk Video]
By loading kids with high expectations and micromanaging their lives at every turn, parents aren’t actually helping. At least, that’s how Julie Lythcott-Haims sees it. With passion and wry humor, the former Dean of Freshmen at Stanford makes the case for...[Read More]
Wills and Estates
The significance of choosing the appropriate structure to make the protection and maintenance of your assets possible cannot be overstated. This is necessary regardless of whether you have acquired your fortune on your own or through inheritance. In this instance, you...[Read More]
Financial management when we lose a loved one
Financial Management When a Loved One Dies Losing a loved one is probably one of the most stressful events one will ever go through in life. It will leave you feeling distraught and devastated, so sorting out their finances is the last thing you’d be concerned about....[Read More]
How Your Memory Works — and Why Forgetting Is Totally OK [TED Talk Video]
Have you ever misplaced something you were just holding? Completely blanked on a famous actor’s name? Walked into a room and immediately forgot why? Neuroscientist Lisa Genova digs into two types of memory failures we regularly experience — and reassures us...[Read More]
What You Can Do to Prevent Alzheimer’s [TED Talk Video]
Alzheimer’s doesn’t have to be your brain’s destiny, says neuroscientist and author of “Still Alice,” Lisa Genova. She shares the latest science investigating the disease — and some promising research on what each of us can do to build an...[Read More]
3 Tips to Maximise Your Age Pension
Over two million seniors rely on the Age Pension for retirement income, according to the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW). Currently, you can start receiving the pension at age 66.5, but by the middle of 2023, you’ll need to be 67 or older. Right...[Read More]
What is a cyber security policy?
A cyber security policy outlines: technology and information assets that you need to protect threats to those assets rules and controls for protecting them and your business It’s important to create a cyber security policy for your business –...[Read More]