Growing Family:

Growing your wealth as your family grows

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Taking Care of Your Growing family

 

As your children get older, life becomes more complex and expensive. Between school fees, mortgage commitments, family holidays, investing for the future and preparing for retirement, it can be difficult to balance today's priorities with tomorrow's goals.

Financial planning can help you balance today's family commitments while building a secure future through investing, protection strategies, superannuation and retirement planning. 

At Leading Advice, we work with growing families to create personalised financial strategies that protect what matters most and help achieve long-term financial goals. 

What Matters Most for growing families?

As your family grows, your financial priorities evolve. This life stage is often characterised by higher incomes, larger responsibilities and greater opportunities to build wealth.

Managing a family budget

Family expenses can increase quickly as children move into school years, extracurricular activities and growing household costs. A structured budget helps ensure your income is working efficiently and supports both current needs and future goals.

Protecting your income

For most families, income is the engine that powers everything else. If illness or injury prevents you from working, the financial impact can be significant. Having the right protection in place can help keep your family's plans on track.

Reviewing Your Insurance

As your financial commitments increase, so does the importance of ensuring your insurance cover remains appropriate. Life insurance, income protection and total permanent disability cover can help safeguard your family's future.

Growing Your Wealth

This stage of life often creates opportunities to invest outside of your family home. Developing an investment strategy can help build wealth, improve financial security and create future options for your family.

Planning for Education Costs

Whether you're considering private schooling, university support or helping your children get started in life, planning ahead can make these future expenses more manageable and help reduce financial pressure when the time comes.

Preparing for Retirement

Retirement may still be years away, but the decisions you make today can have a significant impact on your future lifestyle. Building a clear retirement strategy now can help you achieve greater financial freedom later.

Income Protection Insurance

 

Your family's lifestyle depends on your ability to earn an income. Income protection insurance can provide regular payments if you're unable to work due to illness or injury, helping cover ongoing household expenses when you need it most. 

Key Benefits:

  • Protect your family's cash flow 
  • Receive monthly benefit payments if eligible 
  • Help maintain mortgage and living expenses
  • Potential tax deductibility of premiums

Life Insurance & Family Protection

 

As financial commitments increase, protecting your loved ones becomes even more important. Life insurance can provide financial security for your family if the unexpected occurs. 

Key Benefits: 

  • Financial support for your family 
  • Debt and mortgage protection
  • Assistance with ongoing living expenses
  • Cover for death, terminal illness and permanent disability (depending on policy)

Investment Advice For Families

 

Many growing families reach a point where wealth creation becomes a priority. A personalised investment strategy can help you make the most of surplus cash flow and work towards long-term goals. 

Key Benefits: 

  • Investment strategies tailored to your objectives 
  • Build wealth outside of superannuation 
  • Create future education or lifestyle funds 
  • Professional guidance and ongoing support

Superannuation

Retirement isn't just a one-off event. It's every day of your post working life which could be 20 years plus, so your finances need to be well prepared.

Superannuation is a great (tax friendly!) way to fund your retirement, but choosing the wrong super fund can end up being hundreds of thousands of dollars in lost earnings. 

Key points:

  • Find which super funds are suitable for you
  • Put a plan in place early for an easier retirement
  • Get yourself on the right foot!

Not sure about your Superannuation?

Want to provide for your family?

We'd be happy to help get you on track to financial freedom with a review of your current situation.

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Sandra Lee
1 year ago
Gerard Haskew and the team at Leading Advice are fantastic. We have known them for over 8 years and always found them to be very authentic, interested in us as people, our lives, lifestyle and future requirements. We always feel safe knowing that Gerard is working in our best interest. Whether its superannuation contributions/investment, buying an investment property, helping our children with their wedding expenses, giving our kids an early inheritance or navigating through jobs and personal circumstances, Gerard is there to guide us in the right direction and help with decisions that we believe has set us up well for the future. We highly recommend Gerard Haskew and Leading Advice. Sandra & Gerard Lee, Sydney NSW
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Quinn Parsons
1 year ago
Gerard provided excellent financial advise and guidance for my mother who recently became a widow. He listened to her requirements and gave her the confidence to make the necessary changes to her finances. We were very happy with the level of communication and educating us on the journey.
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Aiden Fornari
1 year ago
Absolute top service from the team at leading advice. Sorted out a super annuation that was more beneficial for me, and looked at wealth creation options. Huge shout out to Samuel & Gerard
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reece altman
1 year ago
Good service, good people. I’ve been with them a long time and would definitely recommend them. Katrina Haskew absolute legend. Caring and honest.
Katrina at Leading Advice has provided me with sound and timely financial and risk advice that has been invaluable to my planning. Katrina is highly professional, kind and very easy to work with. I highly recommend her.
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David Clisdell
1 year ago
I appreciate the depth of knowledge Gerard has when dealing with our investments and his willingness to handle all the dealings with centrelink on our behalf. It gives us confidence that we are in good hands and are getting the most out of our retirement funds.
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Amanbir Cheema
1 year ago
Gerard has always been very accessible and helpful, a person you can trust : )
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Nick Gulic
1 year ago
I've known Katrina for something like 8 years now, and she's always given the most practical and straight up advice. She's gone against options that would have lined her pocket, and focused on making sure that I had the best option for my situation. When it comes to financial advice, Katrina is as trustworthy as it gets for me.
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Jan Cooper
1 year ago
When we retired a few years ago my husband and I asked Gerard Haskew and Leading Advice to manage our superannuation. We are extremely happy with their service. The staff are very pleasant and efficient, their answers to enquiries are always prompt and reliable and we are kept updated to any general changes in superannuation. Gerard meets with us regularly to discuss our plans, makes suggestions and gives wise advice. We wholeheartedly recommend Gerard Haskew and Leading Advice .
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Ranbir Bedi
1 year ago
We had been using the services of Leading Advice for more than a decade or so. We had a great experience dealing with Mr. Gerard Haskew. He always guided us at every step of our life & kept our finances in the best shape. I retired two years back & he had planned my retirement funds/pension & executed perfectly
Would like to give my sincere thanks to Leading Advice & Mr Gerard in particular. Will keep using his services as long as we could for the peace of mind.