Archive for July, 2009

Improving your financial position

Wednesday, July 29th, 2009

Part 7

Part of my role at Premium Finance Services is to help our clients assess their wealth creation options.  I have found the following simple questionnaire an ideal starting point to assist in identifying the options available;

Do you want to pay less tax?                                                             YES  /  NO

Do you want to improve your financial security?                         YES  /  NO

Do you want to pay off your mortgage sooner?                           YES  /  NO

Do you want to retire early?                                                                YES  /  NO

Do you want to provide for your family’s future?                         YES  /  NO

Do you want to retire on a good income?                                       YES  /  NO

If you answered ‘YES’ to any of these questions you will need a wealth creation plan to achieve your goals.

Are you prepared to restructure your current financial position in order to achieve your financial goals?                                                                                                       YES  /  NO

Would you prefer a secure low risk investment strategy in order to achieve your financial goals?                                                                                                                    YES  /  NO

Would you consider purchasing an investment property if it was the best low risk method of achieving your financial goals? YES  /  NO

If you answered ‘YES’ to these questions then you are in a position to consider wealth creation as a means to improving your financial position.

A simple Asset and Liability analysis will then allow professionals at Premium Finance Services to determine the best wealth creation strategy for you.

Wealth Creation with Harold Upton – Investments

Friday, July 24th, 2009


I often find that my clients at Premium Finance Services misunderstand what an investment is due to confusion created by government advertising, the superannuation industry, and the media.

What is an Investment?

An investment is an income producing asset that will be sold or restructured as required to improve financial security or maintain financial well being.

  • If an asset does not, or cannot, produce an income (gold, vacant land, etc) it is speculation not investing; and
  • If an asset will not, or cannot be sold (family home, art work, etc) it is a life style asset not an investment:

At Premium Finance Services we assist our clients to understand;

  • What is an investment and what is not an investment;
  • The difference between an investment & a tax strategy;
  • What makes an investment a good investment; and
  • How to choose a good investment.

A good investment for one person may be a bad investment for another person depending on their individual circumstances so a sound understanding of the personal circumstances and personal goals of an individual is required before any investment decision can be made.

A sound investment may  be classed as good or bad for the same person depending on what their primary financial purpose of holding the invest is.  At Premium Financial Services most of our client are looking to create wealth (as opposed to preserving wealth or utilising wealth) so we recommend the use of investments

Certain investment classes are more suited to certain investment strategies than other and most often Residential Property is the most appropriate vehicle for wealth creation.

Why Use Residential Property For Wealth Creation?

Shares: Property has a lower risk (volatility) & higher gearing

= better Real Outcome.

Cash: Property has growth & tax advantage

= better Real Outcome.

Brand new residential property is often the BEST form of investment available for wealth creation in Australia.  By best we mean;

  • Higher than average returns,
  • Lower than average investment risk,
  • We can borrow more against it giving greater leverage;
  • Tax effective;
  • Easy to understand; and
  • Simple to do and worry free with help from groups like Premium Finance Services!

Wealth Creation – an Overview with Harold Upton

Monday, July 20th, 2009

Wealth Creation – an Overview

At Premium Finance Services we specialise in assisting our clients to improve their financial position and become financially secure without worry, without hassle, and without risk, by helping them understand the basic principles of wealth creation.

Wealth Creation is generally based on the desire to improve one’s financial position and achieve Financial Security;

  • Wealth creation is most often driven by two primary emotional concerns and our desire to allay them;
    • What are my children going to do in the future? – The increasing cost of living, especially housing affordability mean that we have fears and concerns about how our loved ones will manage under  increasingly difficult financial circumstances; and
    • How am I going to afford to retire? – The Government’s ability to fund our retirement is reducing year by year and the burden to provide for our future is most certainly falling upon us.  The Australian Bureau of Statistics figures show that only 4% of retirees have a family income over $50,000 and 84% of retirees have an income under $25,000!  That is 96% do not have enough and retire on a substantially lower standard of living than that which they enjoyed when they worked.
    • These figures are getting worse year by year and it is the role of groups like Premium Finance Services to assist people improve their retirement years

Wealth creation is not complex and can be easily achieved by anyone who has commitment, time, income, and equity;

  • To create wealth you need a to identify;
    • Your primary emotional concerns & desires;
    • Your current financial parameters; and
  • Develop a blueprint; a financial solution to your concerns & desires within your current financial parameters.

Financial Security

  • To achieve Financial Security we must Create Wealth;
  • To Create Wealth we must Invest;
  • To Invest successfully we must implement a Plan;
  • To implement a plan we only need to make a decision to start;
  • My role at Premium Financial Services to is help people Start Now – before it is too late!