Skip to content

Insights/News

budget

The 2017-18 Budget

What you need to know

ONly my accountant

Myth: Only my accountant can provide me with financial advice

Accountants generally look backwards. Financial advisers look forwards. That’s because accounting is about making sense out of large amounts of small detail and looking backwards to apply a set of…

Stocksy txp3658a442hfT100 Medium 442009

New changes make superannuation less super than it once was.

Big superannuation changes kick in on 1 July this year and they are likely to impact many Australians. Here is what you need to know.

It pays to trust the experts

Why it pays to trust the experts

Why it pays to trust the experts. Planning for retirement is not easy, and surviving the changing legislative landscape during the twenty-plus years most of us will live in retirement can…

iStock 89133729 XXXLARGE 1

Myth: All life insurance is the same

Oils ain’t oils. And life insurance isn’t just life insurance, either. A lot of life insurance products won’t do what you need because they differ as much as people’s lives…

The top 5

The top 5 questions we get asked about retirement

Top 5 questions we get asked about retirement. When I speak with people who have either retired, or a planning to retire in the near future, there are some recurring themes…

My family are teh best people

Myth: My family are the best people to advise me financially

They’re all experts, right? And yes, we do all have at least one successful relative who’s happy to share business and investment secrets at the family BBQ.

Financial advice is for people with more monry

Myth: Financial advice is for people with much more money than me

We won’t deny a lot of advisers offer a one size-fits-all ‘Rolls Royce’ service to their clients. But at xseed, we know not everyone wants a Rolls Royce service.