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Financial planning

08 Mar

I may be good, but that’s a bit rich

Not content with being a renowned planner and media personality Nick Bruining has also attracted the attention of the government and for things possibly best kept private...

Financial planning

17 Jan

This year will be different, I promise!

The longer he is in the industry the closer Nick Bruining gets to the heart of it all. For his first column of the new year he takes off his party hat and outlines plans ...

Financial planning

25 Oct

Not another mouse mat!

Let’s be perfectly honest here. This month is want to talk simply about largesse, palm greasing, freebies and other things that are likely to get a business development m...

Life/Risk

07 Jun

Does this policy cover my activities in Majorca?

Forget any of the troubles caused by HIH on the personal indemnity insurance game. HIH may have gone down, but Nick Bruining still has to fill out the paperwork for his P...

Financial planning

15 Mar

Welcome to the new Nick …

Frolicking about in the sun, wearing nothing but a pair of old King Gees and some half perished thongs, nothing drags your mind back to reality like your Christmas Credit...

Financial planning

07 Dec

Your handy Convention survival kit

Nick Bruining offers some invaluable advice for surviving this year’s FPA Convention in Melbourne....

Financial planning

23 Nov

What happens if you take the A out of BAS?

I remember long ago when I used to sit down and do my taxation in one afternoon. ...

Financial planning

26 Oct

Financial planning – it’s a dog’s life, right?

A planner’s life as they say, shouldn’t be all work and no play. Sometime the play becomes more work than the work. Nick Bruining reports. ...

Financial planning

31 Aug

From the Frontline 31/08 – Blood, sweat and fears of the ‘thingys with the ringys’

Forget the swimming, forget the marathon - the Year 2000 Sydney Olympic Games provide the perfect opportunity to put our nation’s greatest planners through their paces, a...

Policy & Regulation

06 Jul

The artful way to choose tax effective schemes

Well it’s that time of year again. I know the season’s changed when my dear old friends at the Venezuelan Yak Milk Yoghurt farm dust of their $20 gold leaf embossed pros...