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Conversation, not isolation

Some of the most important conversations in our lives begin when circumstances force us to rethink what comes next. We tend to imagine our lives and financial plans as a straight, uninterrupted line moving upwards and to the right. We assume our income, capacity and...

Why good health is a financial strategy

Lifestyle

Good health may be one of the most overlooked components of a successful financial strategy. When we sit down to project a client’s retirement, one of the biggest variables we need to account for is longevity. Thanks to modern medicine, we’re living longer than any...

Don’t avoid the struggle

Lifestyle

Financial freedom is often misunderstood as the ability to avoid the struggle and eliminate every challenge from our lives. Here’s why money shouldn’t buy your way out of friction. There’s a common, unspoken assumption about wealth creation that many internalise...

Empty nest financial planning

Lifestyle

Empty nest financial planning is about far more than adjusting a budget. It’s about navigating one of life’s most significant emotional and financial transitions.There’s a very specific kind of quiet that descends upon a house when the children eventually...

Talking to your family about money

Lifestyle

Talking to your family about money is one of the most important and overlooked aspects of effective family financial planning.As the playwright George Bernard Shaw famously observed, ‘The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken...