Financial Autonomy

Australian investors have spent decades being told there are good reasons to keep a big chunk of their money at home.

We've got franking credits, familiar companies, and the big banks and miners.

But what if that old investing playbook is starting to work against you?

Over the past decade, the gap between Australian and US sharemarket returns has been ...

Most investors worry about taking too much risk.

But what if the bigger problem is that you are not taking enough?

Choosing how much risk to take with your money can have a huge impact on what your investments are able to do for you. Get it wrong and you could either expose yourself to losses you are not prepared for, or spend years investing only to find you ha...

Buying property with family can seem like a smart way to help your kids, pool your money or make a deal possible that none of you could manage alone.

Until someone wants out.

But what happens if someone wants out, a relationship breaks down, or the family disagrees about who owns what?

In this episode, Nick and Paul unpack five real family property dea...

You're earning good money. You're busy. And the last thing you need is a wealth-building strategy that feels like another job.

Because building wealth should not mean spending your evenings researching shares, sorting through dividend statements or wondering whether you should change your investments every time the market moves.

In this Financial Autonomy Esse...

For decades, the family trust has been treated as the go-to structure for Australians building serious wealth.

But what happens when the rules that made trusts so attractive begin to change?

Suddenly, the structure many investors have relied on for tax flexibility, capital gains concessions and passing wealth between generations may no longer be the automatic ...