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Jan 2025
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Ask an Adviser: Pay off mortgage or inve...

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Ask an Advisor is back for 2025. This is the series where we put your money and investing questions to some of Australia's best financial advisers.


Today we're joined in the studio by Glen Hare, cofounder & financial adviser at Fox & Hare. In this episode he answers questions on:

  • The most common client goals for 2025
  • How we can all do a 'financial health check'
  • Planning to buy property
  • Managing retirement without owning a property
  • When someone is advice ready
  • And so much more!


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