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Education is one of the greatest gifts you can give your child. With education costs outpacing inflation, and private education increasing at the same time, it is important to put funds aside for school fees and incidentals.

With this in mind, Chris Wright, Lifeplan’s Managing Director, writes a monthly column for South Australia’s ‘The Advertiser’ newspaper to help people better understand the ever-increasing cost of education, and the options available to them.

Invest time in planning your wealth - PDF
Why does just the thought of investing bring a shudder to many of us?
18 August 2008

Lessons from a college system - PDF
Whether we like it or not, Australia tends to follow the U.S. in many of its trends.
21 July 2008

Super not only a good place to invest - PDF
Many people are of the view that one of the only investment options available today is superannuation, becaue of the various tax advantages available to those who invest in their own super.
16 June 2008

Saving for a rainy day - PDF
Australians are in the throes of absorbing a raft of changes to the country's taxation structure and welfare system, announced in last week's Federal Budget.
19 May 2008

Plan for future – after death - PDF
There are some things many of us do not want to think about, let alone plan for. Our mortality is one.
21 April 2008

A revolution in the way we save money - PDF
In the lead up to Labor’s runaway victory at last year’s Federal election and subsequently thereafter there was a lot of talk about political revolutions.
17 March 2008

Uni fees linger well into thirties - PDF
If you are currently at university - or are the parent of someone who is - stand by for some alarming news.
18 February 2008

Start saving for child's future - PDF
Alarm bells are ringing throughout the community about the decline in the number of young people applying to attend university and TAFE courses in South Australia.
21 January 2008

Educating teenagers need not be a burden - PDF
How quickly times change. When someone of my generation went to school, our parents didn’t need to worry about purchasing a laptop computer, mobile phone, PDA, broadband and other increasingly indispensable items of today’s day and age.
17 December 2007

An early investment in higher learning - PDF
Some young people, worried about getting into serious dept at an early age, are putting aside their dreams and aspirations of a tertiary education in favour of full-time employment.
11 November 2007

Investing early for a private education - PDF
The mere thought of how much it will cost to educate a child today is enough to send most parents into financial meltdown.
15 October 2007

Cost of education really smarts - PDF
Record low unemployment, wages growth, and strong increases in house prices and equities have all served to mask the stark reality of spiralling education costs.
17 September 2007

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