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Downsize your home & Upsize your super

It’s the great Australian dream to own your own home. Whilst in our younger years, when it comes to buying (or upsizing) our homes, it can be seductive to “keep up with the Joneses”. Later in life, it can be just as alluring to downsize them. Lowered costs of electricity, insurances. Less maintenance. More time to go out and travel and live out your retirement dreams.

The Paradox of Choice

Have you ever found yourself hesitating to make a decision?

Thinking of Borrowing?

If you ever want to access a loan in the future, you must read this blog.

Yoga: Teaching you how to Invest

True Wealth is not just having money in the bank, it’s an inner condition of wellbeing. It’s about your financial health, your personal growth, your life and love, your passions. Your health is also your wealth.

The Hayne Royal Commission Report into Financial Services

On Monday Commissioner Hayne made public his findings and recommendations on the Financial Services industry. His report appears measured and pragmatic but will take time to implement. The Federal Government has said it will act on 75 of 76 recommendations. We have identified a few pertinent matters to share with you.

Wisdom in a Cookie

A number of years ago our team of financial adviser and their partners celebrated Lunar New Year together with a huge Chinese banquet. Of course, no Chinese banquet would be complete without the Wisdom of the Fortune Cookie. Have a read of the one Frances received…

Vlog: Early Bird gets the Worm – Compound Interest

Welcome to Alman Partners‘ very first Vlog! In the first

Interesting Vs Actionable

“Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.”
Niels Bohr, Nobel laureate in Physics

The universal reward of time and patience

In Leo Tolstoy’s great novel ‘War and Peace,’ a Russian general charged with defeating Napoleon and expelling the French from Russian soil argued against rushing into battle, saying the strongest of all warriors were “time and patience.”

Royal Commission – Asleep at the Wheel?

With the Banking Royal Commission in full swing, the spotlight is squarely on financial services regulators. Future Fund chairman and former federal treasurer, Peter Costello, stated it plainly: “The next step of the royal commission is to actually find out why the regulatory agencies weren’t awake and at the wheel.1“

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