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Be your own financial planner and create a winning strategy to achieve your money goals
Do you want to learn and apply the strategies that experts use to grow and protect wealth? In Smart Money Strategy, popular financial planner Luke Smith comprehensively reveals the principles, methods and tactics that real financial planners use with their clients. Every person’s—and every family’s—financial journey is different. There’s no silver bullet or one-size-fits-all approach. But there are financial strategies that can be applied, no matter what stage you’re at in life, to get your money working harder for you with less stress.
Smart Money Strategy will help you to define your priorities and create a personalised, actionable plan to achieve your goals. You’ll learn effective strategies to manage your income, reduce your debts, and maximise your investment, superannuation and retirement outcomes. Even better, you’ll learn how different strategies can be stacked together for maximum benefit. In other words, you’ll learn how you can stack the financial odds in your favour!
You’ll discover:
From adopting a money mindset to protecting your assets, with Smart Money Strategy you’ll uncover the secrets to achieving your financial goals. Whether you want a hands-on DIY approach, or you’re looking for the essentials you need to talk more confidently with your own financial planner, this book will help you create a tailored plan for growing your wealth.
LUKE SMITH is a licensed financial planner and the founder of an award-winning financial planning business based in Canberra. He hosts a weekly program on 2CC Talking Canberra and is host of The Strategy Stacker, a personal finance podcast.
Acknowledgements ix
About the Author xi
How to Use This Book xiii
Introduction ix Part I: The Foundations 1
1 Five Truths about Money 3
2 Your Adult Financial Life Starts and Ends with ‘Why?’ 13
3 Setting Strong Foundations 19
Part II: Strategy Stacking 35
4 Understanding the Strategy Stacking Philosophy 37
5 Strategy Stacking around Significant Life Events 53
6 Getting Started: Assessing Your Starting Position 61
7 Making a Plan: The Strategy Stacking Calendar 81
8 Strategy Stacking Scenarios 85
Part III: The Strategies 119
9 The Framing Strategies 121
10 The Investment Strategies 143
11 The Superannuation Strategies 191
12 The Retirement Strategies 245
13 The Wealth Protection Strategies 291
14 The Estate Planning Strategies 321
Part IV: Putting Your Financial Plan into Action 339
15 Why Seek Personal Financial Advice? 341
16 What to Expect from the Financial Planning Process 349 Endings and New Beginnings 359 Index 363
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