Senior homeowners who have little savings face some difficult choices: either downgrade their lifestyle to get by on government payments or tap their remaining asset - the family home - to cover their expenses.
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Find out how reverse mortgages can be used to help fund retirement, refinance debt and make your super last longer.
A growing number of Australian couples are deciding to end their 20-year plus marriages with significant impacts to their finances and their retirement.
You’ve been waiting so long for this time – a new chapter and an end to all those years of work. But what if retirement is not the happy, relaxed experience you’d imagined?
An increasing number of older Australians are facing long-term unemployment with the situation likely to become even worse as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
If you're over 60 and own your home, you can use a reverse mortgage to access income or a lump sum of cash while still retaining significant equity.
Figuring out how to pay for both short and long-term aged care can be daunting for individuals and families – not to mention stressful!
One of Australia's most experienced reverse mortgage advisers Bob Budreika talks to Radio Fiveaa's Tony Pilkington about how retirees can benefit from seeking affordable, tailored advice on their finances - and how his new national business Smooth Retirement is...
A chance meeting four years ago inspired two South Australians to get together to create a specialised new financial advice service just for retirees. Disgruntled with the financial services industry’s treatment of Australian retirees, Bob Budreika and Scott Phillips...
What if your retirement finances haven't gone to plan? Divorce, redundancy, raising kids and coming into the superannuation system too late are just some of the life event that have left many retirees with insufficient funds. Smooth Retirement's Scott...