Here's an example of how easy it can be to plan your future with a professional Financial Planner. One of our client's recently contacted me to discuss if they could afford a trip to Europe in 2013. As they were a Total Service Financial Planning Client, we had all of their updated information on file, including their current Expenditure Analysis and details of their Income. I completed the projection this morning for them and determined that they could afford to pay fo...

The Newman QLD Government handed down its first Budget today. They are introducing a First Home Buyer Concession Grant of $15,000 for those buying their first new home, however, there is a catch. In order to get the Grant, you will need to buy a newly-built home, or construct a new home of your own. I assume that means the current $7,500 First Home Owner Grant will be abolished, which means if your first home is an existing property, you'll get nothing. The hand giveth,...

I quite often get asked 'what is it that you actually do, Dean?', apart from dinking a lot of coffee and going to 'seminars'. I think the following sums up what I do as a professional Financial Planner: I find out all about you: where you are now, where you want to be, what you want and what you have. Then I come up with the best way to help you get what you want, and get you where you want to be. Then I co-ordinate everything and everyone to make it happen. ...