With a young family myself, I certainly understand the stresses that come from balancing family, work-life and financial wellbeing.

For those of our readers who are too young to remember milestones, they were posts on the side of the road signifying how many miles to the nearest large town. They also marked how many miles from the previous town.  These milestones were very important when most travel on the road were horses and carts.  Not so important now when the GPS in our cars tells us everything we need to know about the road ahead.

For the last 25 years, the SFS Team have been describing to our clients why Superannuation is so valuable as a savings vehicle to build wealth from which to create a solid platform for a comfortable retirement. Putting aside the tax advantages, there is also the discipline of regular saving and investing.

Until recently the recent gyrations in financial markets had been compared with the 2007 – 09 global financial crisis. Now some elements of both the popular and more professional business media are looking to October 1987 (some 33 years ago now) to find a precedent to the wild swings that we are now seeing.