If you are planning your retirement, a retirement planning professional can be a valuable ally. We have been a trusted name in Perth since 2005 and our financial advisors have more than 40 years combined experience in the industry. While we aren’t allowed to provide anything constituting individual financial advice in this blog, we would…
Financial advisors in Perth and across Australia are working even harder lately, thanks to the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA). In December 2014, the APRA announced that measures would be implemented to decrease the ratio of investment property home loans to owner-occupier home loans. * The response for many lenders has been to make the…
We have provided financial planning for a lot of your Perth neighbours; our financial planners have more than 40 years’ combined experience. When we are getting to know your financial situation, we like to find out what your assets and liabilities are so we can devise a way to get you to where you want…
Financial advisors, in Perth and across the world, are expected to make sense of what can sometimes be a volatile market for investors. At Approved Financial Planners, we have been a trusted name in the Perth market since 2005. We are now backed by parent company AMP Capital, giving us even more resources and information…
Some financial planning professionals in Perth are recommending real estate trusts as an investment vehicle. Recently, the Head of Listed Real Estate for AMP Capital, Mark Ferguson, wrote an article for the AMP Capital blog, called “Australian real estate investment trusts—the right time to invest?”* The article referenced the fact that Australian Real Estate Investment…
Any Perth financial planner can tell you that it’s never too early to start saving money, but we are serious about it. We believe that children should be taught good financial habits as early as possible. MoneySmart, the website of the Australian Securities & Investments Commission (ASIC), agrees with us. Recently, we spent some time…
Wealth protection is an important component for those planning their financial futures. We have helped many Perth residents do just that since 2005. When helping our clients save and produce income for their retirements, we see protecting that money as equally important. So do our friends at the Financial Planning Association of Australia (FPA), who…
Financial planning, in Perth and across Australia, is a field that is constantly evolving. Recently, Dr Shane Oliver, Chief Economist and Head of Investment Strategy and Economics at our parent company, AMP Capital, published a wealth of information on active asset allocation.* We would like to share some of the information with you to help…
The investment planning industry has had three great years. In Perth and across Australia, the past financial year produced a third consecutive year of “solid returns for investors,” according to AMP Capital Chief Economist, Dr Shane Oliver. Dr Oliver projects returns to “slow” in the coming year, but still provide “reasonable” returns. * He attributes…
Perth financial planners field a lot of questions about property investment on a daily basis. The concept sounds simple: purchase an investment property in a hot Perth suburb, rent it out and wait for capital gains to outperform all other forms of investment. But does it really work that way? The Pitfalls of Property Investment…