elk is growing to help you where you live and work elk is proud to announce the launch of our new elk Sydney office. We can offer our financial (loans & wealth), property and lifestyle services to an even wider group of clients as we expand our business.…
The Gold Coast recorded 12 per cent less property sales over the year to February 2018, according to CoreLogic, the property data research organisation of RP Data. You would expect property prices would go flat or even fall, but in…
The superannuation system as it is puts employees into underperforming investment funds. In addition, since their individual super funds are linked to or set up through employers, Australian workers end up having multiple super funds that generate more administration fees.…
To all our valued clients, contacts and friends, elk is growing with new office changes! To greater serve our clients, elk is purchasing a new corporate premises where our elk house (Head Office | Central Management & Control) will…
The Australian property market overall has seen seven consecutive months of small price drops, according to the CoreLogic home value index. This weakness was mostly in Melbourne and Sydney, where the most expensive markets are. The head of CoreLogic, Tim…
We usually think about couples going into retirement, pooling their assets and funds together to make the best lifestyle they can for each other. Some women may have to face preparing for retirement alone. Even in retirement, there can be…
Up until now, your credit reporting score could be impacted by such things like defaults and late repayments- mostly negative data that became warning signs for lenders as to your potential credit risk. If you kept up your payments up…
elk realty & capital news highlight: Since 2013, a rise in owner-occupiers choosing townhouses and larger apartments can be seen, based on the findings of the Knight Frank's Australian Residential Development Review 2018. Sales of these housing types grew from 2.2 percent…
Most Australians pay 9.5 per cent of their income into their super, but a compulsory super contribution increase to 12 per cent is proposed to occur in 2025. Long-term projection analysis by the Grattan Institute predicts that the extra money…
Up until now, a self-managed super fund (SMSF) could have up to four members, so a married couple with two kids, for example, could pool their savings and investments together to prepare for retirement. Kelly O'Dwyer, Financial Servies Minister, is…
