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This podcast discusses the real issues regarding potential liability issues faced by real estate landlords and explains: what are the risks, and what steps can be taken to minimise them.

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While inflation causes the cost of borrowed money to decrease over time (in real terms), it also causes the value of invested capital to decrease over time (again in real terms). This article briefly discusses the phenomenon and investigates how these two competing forces interact and whether inflation is indeed better or worse for leveraged investments.

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Looking at the long term average returns on property versus shares sees largely similar results. So why is there such a debate about which asset class is better? This article suggests some reasons and explains why one may well be better than the other!

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Investing in a property is often a large financial commitment, which requires much preparation and due diligence to ensure that you are getting value for money. So it’s important to get it right! This article offers some tips to consider when buying property.

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The “transition to retirement” was initially introduced as a means of allowing taxpayers over 55 years of age, an opportunity to slow down (ie reduce the number of hours worked) without having to reduce the net disposable income (by replacing the decrease in salary with a small pension drawn on retirement savings). However, the way the rules were introduced they also allow much more creative methods of enhancing your retirement savings.

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A common mistake is to believe that tax planning is optimised when every opportunity to reduce tax is taken. This is because some opportunities to reduce tax rely on strained interpretations of the law. Therefore, tax planning involves much more than taking the option that at first appears to result in lower tax costs. It involves objectively assessing and actively managing tax risk.