Top Financial Planner in Newcastle
Sharon Goodwin is a highly experienced financial planner serving Newcastle and Maitland. With over 30 years in financial services, including banking, lending, compliance, and financial planning. Sharon offers expert guidance for clients seeking financial clarity and growth. She holds a Master of Financial Planning, is a Justice of the Peace, and has over a decade of hands-on financial planning experience.
Sharon began her career as a bank manager, where she discovered the power of strategic wealth management. Inspired to make a meaningful impact, she pursued financial planning to help clients achieve their long-term wealth goals. She is passionate about empowering clients to reach their full financial potential with tailored strategies for wealth growth.
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Perfect Foundations
Pathway to Wealth
Countdown to Retirement
Approaching retirement can bring uncertainty, but it’s never too late to take control of your financial future. You might be wondering, ‘When can I retire?’ Hiring an expert retirement financial advisor provides you with the clarity you need to answer that question confidently. We’ll help you understand when retirement is realistic for you, what kind of lifestyle you can enjoy, and how to grow your wealth to ensure a secure and comfortable future.
Retire in Style
Retirement is a major milestone, marking the beginning of a well-deserved chapter in your life. As you celebrate this transition, our top priority is to help you make the most of your retirement. We’ll guide you through the complex taxation and superannuation regulations, ensuring you maximise your benefits and enjoy the retirement you’ve worked so hard for. Let us help you navigate these challenges so you can focus on enjoying this exciting new stage of life.
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Retirement Planning Newcastle
As you approach retirement, it’s only natural to start thinking about the futurem for yourself and for your family. After years of hard graft, you want to know that everything you’ve built is protected and will be passed on the way you intend. Estate planning isn’t just about legal documents. It’s about making sure your loved ones are taken care of, your wishes are respected, and your legacy lives on. For families here in Newcastle, that peace of mind matters.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Creating a sustainable income stream is a core focus for any retirement specialist in Newcastle. By structuring your assets to balance growth with capital preservation, we help ensure your superannuation and investments provide a reliable “paycheck” throughout your post-working life.
General advice doesn’t consider your specific goals or financial situation, whereas personal advice from a financial advisor in Newcastle is tailored specifically to you. At Coleman Financial Group, we provide a Statement of Advice (SOA) that outlines strategies uniquely designed for your risk profile, tax position and family requirements.
While you can start at any time, most people begin seeing financial advisors for retirement in Newcastle about 5 to 10 years before they plan to stop work. It is preferential to begin earlier than this to give time for strategies to really begin to gain momentum. This window allows for “Transition to Retirement” strategies, such as salary sacrificing, which can significantly boost your final balance while reducing your taxable income.
A qualified financial planner in Newcastle uses legal tax-minimisation strategies, such as optimising super contributions and selecting tax-effective investment structures. By integrating our advice with accounting expertise, we ensure your wealth grows in the most tax-efficient manner possible under current Australian law.
Yes, a retirement specialist in Newcastle assists with the complex Assets and Income tests set by Centrelink. We provide strategies to help you legitimately maximise your entitlements, ensuring you receive the support you are eligible for alongside your private savings.
The answer depends on your interest rates, tax bracket and time to retirement. A financial advisor in Newcastle can run comparative projections to show which option provides a better long-term outcome for your specific circumstances, helping you strike the right balance between debt reduction and wealth creation.
While an SMSF offers control, it carries heavy legal and compliance responsibilities. Consulting financial advisors for retirement in Newcastle helps you understand if you have the time and expertise required to manage the fund’s investment strategy and audit requirements effectively.
You should review your plan at least annually or whenever a major life event occurs, such as a career change or inheritance. A financial planner in Newcastle provides ongoing monitoring to ensure your strategy remains aligned with your goals and adapts to any changes in government legislation or economic conditions.
Wealth protection is just as important as wealth creation. A financial advisor in Newcastle assesses your need for Life, TPD, Trauma and Income Protection insurance, often structuring these within your superannuation to assist with cash flow while ensuring your family remains financially secure.
General Advice Warning: The information contained on this website has been provided as general advice only. The contents have been prepared without taking account of your objectives, financial situation or needs. You should, before you make any decision regarding any information, strategies or products mentioned on this website, consult your own financial advisor to consider whether that is appropriate having regard to your own objectives, financial situation and needs.
Disclaimer: Whilst Coleman Wealth Pty Ltd is of the view the contents of this website are based on information that is believed to be reliable, its accuracy and completeness are not guaranteed and no warranty of accuracy or reliability is given or implied and no responsibility for any loss or damage arising in any way for any representation, act or omission is accepted by Coleman Wealth Pty Ltd or GPS Wealth Ltd or any officer, agent or employee of Coleman Wealth Pty Ltd or GPS Wealth Ltd.
Sharon Goodwin is an Authorised Representative of GPS Wealth Ltd AFSL 254 544, Sharon Goodwin is a Sub-Authorised Representative of Coleman Wealth Pty Ltd ABN 93 670 350 071, a Corporate Authorised Representative (455141) of GPS Wealth Ltd ABN 17 005 482 726
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A: Level 11, 45 Clarence Street Sydney NSW 2000