Empower Blog Retirement Income

Revealed: How Much You Need To Retire in ONE SIMPLE FORMULA

What I want to talk about today is the concept of retirement and, more specifically, how much do you need to have a passive income that will support the lifestyle you really want in retirement? Because most people, I wonder if they've thought this through. I've spoken to hundreds and hundreds of people, and they often talk to me about how they...

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How to Retire on $2000 a week

This time on the Today Show, Ben Kingsley was asked to talk about his and Bryce's book: The Armchair Guide to Property Investing. One of the key goals of this book is to showcase how to retire on $2000 a week by investing in property and build up their property portfolio. Ben will be talking about the Property Investment Formula, investing strategi...

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Key Changes you need to know about your Retirement and Pension

So with the recent budget in May this year, the Federal Government announced a few changes in relation to Centrelink. In particular, the one that got a lot of media attention was increase in the age entitlement. It was recommended or suggested to increase the age pension entitlement from age 67 to 70. This would be phased out over the next few year...

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The era of entitlement IS OVER – What can be done?

Joe Hockey delivered the nation’s 2014 Federal Budget last Tuesday. He was true to his word about it being a tough budget and based on the changes they want to push through the senate and bring into law, it certainly didn’t miss any of us, as their catch cry stated “we are all in this together”. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it agai...

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ASIC’s Barriers to Making Good Financial Decisions

It was pleasing to see, as brought to my attention by the editor of Property Observer, Jennifer Duke in her fine article last week – The five factors inhibiting every investor in today's advice-laden world, that ASIC did have a good understanding on consumer investment behaviour when it comes to financial decisions they make.  And the report car...

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Whose Responsibility?

If Old age poverty rate were to still be at its current level of 35.5% by 2050, we would be facing the prospect of over 10% of Australians living in poverty at a time when they should be enjoying their desired retirement lifestyle. Would it be the responsibility of the Superannuation or the Age Pension to avoid this? Will they even work? In an e...

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Control your retirement income

When you retire, there are different financial factors to consider because you are no longer receiving income from employment. Adverse market movements can have a greater impact on your savings in retirement because you’re not replenishing your savings with a regular pay cheque. Additionally, when you’re employed your income generally increases...

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Nothing ever Changes if Nothing Ever Changes

Have you considered if your retirement income will sustain your lifestyle? If not perhaps it is time to put away the fear of change and act now. Households are going to be in for a rude shock in retirement, as they come to terms with reduced income and the impact on their lifestyle unless they start acting now. There is a rule of thumb to help ...

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Income Level isn’t a Death Knell to a Prosperous Retirement

I love my job; I go to work every day in the knowledge that my team and I are making a positive difference to our client’s financial situation every day. For those new to my commentary, I talk about our business not being in the financial services and property industry, but rather I think we are in the ‘Lifestyle’ business. Let me expand o...

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Retire Sooner, Richer!

Retire sooner, richer! Isn’t that what almost everyone wished for? This time, Your Investment Property Magazine provides a case study to our team at Empower Wealth, focusing on 30-something couple with a combined income of $130,000 p.a. Will it be possible for them to build a multi-million dollar portfolio? Our team build a customised investment ...

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Why is Money Planning Important?

Imagine for a moment that you have decided that you want a new Home. However, to this point you haven’t thought about what you want the home to look like, how many bedrooms, living areas, or outdoor spaces it should have, how much it might cost, or how you are going to pay for it. How likely do you think it is that you will get what you want w...

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Did You Make Any Headway To Retirement Last Year?

A new year has arrived and it’s usually this time of the year that one reflects on the past year and reviews the good, the bad and the ugly. A lot of great things happened for me, my family and business in 2010 and very little bad news came our way. For most of you the ugly might have been Collingwood winning the flag, but for me that event was o...

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