by Fran | Feb 27, 2020 | Opinion
You’ve taken Step 1 on the road to financial independence and put in place a savings plan, and next up is investments. Good work! Next you’ll need to make some choices about what to do with those precious dollars. Been watching the markets amid election pre-selection...
by Lacey | May 14, 2019 | Property, Relationships
Relationship breakdowns can be devastating emotionally, as anyone who’s been through it knows. Then, just when you’re at your most fragile and vulnerable, you have to deal with unravelling your finances. This is where we learn that 1÷2 ≠ 0.5, even though we wish it...
by Fran | Oct 10, 2016 | FITR, Interviews & Personal Stories, Investing
If you’ve read anything about Money School, you’d know we wouldn’t be here without Fran, the mother half of the our mother-daughter team. Fran’s a bit shy. She’s more than happy to be in the background. Getting in front of a camera was a...
by Lacey | Jun 1, 2016 | Borrowing and Debt, Debt, Investing, Property, Reflection, Teaching kids about money
Having bought property in 2001 at 19 years old, I get asked this question at least once a month: Could a 19 year old do the same today, in 2016? My short answer is: yes, they could. I’ll outline how in this post. The far more important question is: if they could,...
by Lacey | Apr 2, 2015 | Debt, Property
By Lacey Filipich BEng(Hons) MAICD Having bought a property in my teens, I am asked time and again by students and those early in their career how they can do it too. To those aspiring young property magnates, I say: bravo! Thinking about wealth creation in your teens...
