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Financial planning

7 March 2002

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

16 January 2002

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

24 October 2001

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

6 June 2001

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

14 March 2001

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

6 December 2000

Your handy Convention survival kit

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

Financial planning

22 November 2000

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

25 October 2000

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

30 August 2000

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

5 July 2000

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...