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- 0:00Speaker 1: My name is Tatasha Bamblet. I'm a proud First Nations
- 0:03Speaker 1: woman and I'm here to acknowledge country t Glenn Young
- 0:07Speaker 1: Ganya nianar Kaka yah y and Binahaka nian Our gay
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- 0:19Speaker 1: rum Jar water Nadaa. Hello, beautiful friends, we gather on
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- 0:30Speaker 1: Take pleasure in all the land and respect all that
- 0:33Speaker 1: you see. She's on the Money podcast acknowledges culture, country,
- 0:38Speaker 1: community and connections, bringing you the tools, knowledge and resources
- 0:43Speaker 1: for you to thrive.
- 0:45Speaker 2: She's on the Money. She's on the Money.
- 1:07Speaker 3: Hello and welcome to She's on the Money. The podcast
- 1:10Speaker 3: that proves investing isn't just for trust fund babies. It's
- 1:13Speaker 3: for your kids too, who might be trust fund babies,
- 1:15Speaker 3: they might be trust one babies.
- 1:16Speaker 2: Yeah, but that's not the point exact. But they don't
- 1:18Speaker 2: have to be. But they don't have to be they
- 1:20Speaker 2: could literally have no money and they could start investing exactly.
- 1:23Speaker 2: That's the end of the show. Thanks for having us.
- 1:25Speaker 3: That's all for today. Every parent wants to give their
- 1:29Speaker 3: kids the world and set them up financially, I assume,
- 1:31Speaker 3: I imagine, but you don't have a strategy, the ATO
- 1:34Speaker 3: might end up with the biggest slice of their future,
- 1:37Speaker 3: which is really I.
- 1:38Speaker 2: Know it's I mean, it's a swear word in my brain.
- 1:41Speaker 3: I'm back scited, and that's why I've brought in the
- 1:43Speaker 3: woman who knows financial strategy is the greatest form of
- 1:46Speaker 3: self care.
- 1:48Speaker 2: Victoria Divine and I do love talking about the ATO.
- 1:50Speaker 2: You do do someone's going on between you guys, I do, yeah,
- 1:54Speaker 2: we both love tax okay in common. Our community for
- 1:59Speaker 2: a very long time has been asking for more investing
- 2:01Speaker 2: for kids content, and we already have a playlist, so
- 2:04Speaker 2: we'll make sure that's linked in the show notes so
- 2:06Speaker 2: that you don't miss out on anything. But as you
- 2:09Speaker 2: also know, Beck, we have been working with Chaz's for
- 2:11Speaker 2: the longest time. Like I use chare Za's, lots of
- 2:14Speaker 2: our community use chare Za's. I believe you use just
- 2:18Speaker 2: uses share like we're part of the cults oh yeah,
- 2:20Speaker 2: and even if we weren't working with them, I would
- 2:22Speaker 2: still be using share Z's And something that I have
- 2:26Speaker 2: been waiting for is for them to drop kids accounts
- 2:30Speaker 2: because I'm like, come on, guys, I'm so excited for this.
- 2:34Speaker 2: And in the background there's been whispers of this kid's
- 2:37Speaker 2: account for ages, but because the taxation system here is
- 2:40Speaker 2: quite complex, that obviously takes a while. But guess what,
- 2:44Speaker 2: They've just dropped no kids investing account. Really, I'm so
- 2:48Speaker 2: excited and a lot of you I know have been
- 2:50Speaker 2: hanging out for this, Like there have been people in
- 2:52Speaker 2: my dms now and I don't mean to be dramatic,
- 2:55Speaker 2: but for literal years saying I'm just waiting for Chazy's
- 2:58Speaker 2: to drop their kids investing count. Well, I can start
- 3:01Speaker 2: investing because I don't want it on a different platform
- 3:03Speaker 2: or I don't want to use an investment bond, or
- 3:05Speaker 2: I don't want to do this, that or the other.
- 3:07Speaker 2: And that's so fine. But because investing for kids who
- 3:10Speaker 2: has been one of our most requested topics ever, we
- 3:13Speaker 2: thought to celebrate the fact that Sharsis now has kids counts,
- 3:17Speaker 2: would do an episode yeah, and we would talk about
- 3:19Speaker 2: this in depth how you do it, what it looks like,
- 3:22Speaker 2: and whether this is an option for you. So whether
- 3:25Speaker 2: you are a parent like me, maybe you're a care
- 3:28Speaker 2: or maybe you're like the world's best aunt, or maybe
- 3:31Speaker 2: you're just a gal who is nosy and wants to
- 3:33Speaker 2: know how this stuff works so that if ever it
- 3:35Speaker 2: comes up at brunch, you go, babe, sit down. So
- 3:38Speaker 2: do you know how the tax system works? You're my people?
- 3:42Speaker 2: Stick around. This one is for you.
- 3:43Speaker 3: Oh my god.
- 3:44Speaker 2: There are as you've probably gathered and this is why
- 3:47Speaker 2: lots of us get analysis paralysis. A lot of different
- 3:50Speaker 2: ways that you can invest for kids, but today I
- 3:53Speaker 2: have like nuanced sit down. We are specifically talking about
- 3:58Speaker 2: how to invest for your children in the share market.
- 4:02Speaker 2: So we're not talking about property, we're not talking about
- 4:04Speaker 2: alternative assets, definitely not talking about cryptocurrencies, gonna say what
- 4:09Speaker 2: a bit coin. We are also going to be talking
- 4:12Speaker 2: about how to make sure that the ato yes as
- 4:14Speaker 2: much as I love them, because we know that paying
- 4:17Speaker 2: tax is a privilege. Thank you, taxation Office. We actually
- 4:20Speaker 2: don't want the taxation office to end up with your
- 4:24Speaker 2: kids pocket money.
- 4:26Speaker 3: Ideally, ideally, ideally, don't get.
- 4:28Speaker 2: Me wrong, paying tax is a privilege. But I'm always
- 4:30Speaker 2: educating myself on ways that I can lower my tax
- 4:33Speaker 2: and make it most effective and all of that. At
- 4:35Speaker 2: the same time, the more tax you're paying, the more
- 4:37Speaker 2: money you're making. That is a great outcome.
- 4:39Speaker 3: Oh that's such a good way to look at it.
- 4:41Speaker 2: More tax, more money.
- 4:42Speaker 3: Okay, so's all that is really exciting. Thank you, shareses,
- 4:47Speaker 3: And also should we start with why we should think
- 4:50Speaker 3: about buying shares for our kids?
- 4:52Speaker 2: Yeah? Absolutely, absolutely, So the answer is actually time in
- 4:56Speaker 2: the market. So like your own new investor, we're calling
- 5:00Speaker 2: you new still, Like, at what point are you no
- 5:02Speaker 2: longer a new investor?
- 5:03Speaker 4: Bet well, I like to think five years, okay, five years,
- 5:07Speaker 4: do you know what, I'll give you whatever you want,
- 5:09Speaker 4: thank you. Maybe twenty years okay, all right, all right,
- 5:12Speaker 4: but you've started investing.
- 5:14Speaker 2: Yes, I think it's just been more than twelve months.
- 5:16Speaker 3: It is just over twelve months. Yeah, exactly, really scared.
- 5:19Speaker 3: You got a good memory.
- 5:20Speaker 2: I really like talking about investing. But time in the market, right,
- 5:25Speaker 2: and like you've seen some positive returns and that's just
- 5:27Speaker 2: over twelve months. And I mean it's nothing that's going
- 5:29Speaker 2: to like help you retire. But the number one thing
- 5:32Speaker 2: we hear from people who finally take that jump and
- 5:36Speaker 2: finally start investing is that they always wish they started sooner.
- 5:39Speaker 2: They're always like, oh my goodness, Like, imagine this investment
- 5:42Speaker 2: portfolio if i'd like started ten years ago. Yeah, And
- 5:46Speaker 2: that's the biggest advantage that our kids have when it
- 5:49Speaker 2: comes to investing. It's literally they get more time in
- 5:54Speaker 2: the market than us. Like most of us, I would say,
- 5:57Speaker 2: don't start. If we look at the shees on the
- 5:59Speaker 2: money community, we do not start. And this is not
- 6:02Speaker 2: because we are lazy. It's not because we don't get it.
- 6:03Speaker 2: It's because we don't have cash. Beck, most of us
- 6:06Speaker 2: don't start investing until we're in our thirties. Yeah, because sorry,
- 6:10Speaker 2: like even if we micro investing, and like, don't get
- 6:12Speaker 2: me wrong that she's on the money community a sleigh.
- 6:14Speaker 2: There is lots of young people starting investing young, but
- 6:17Speaker 2: most of us don't have the capacity to invest to
- 6:20Speaker 2: create financial freedom until we're a bit older. We all
- 6:23Speaker 2: wish we started earlier, because I have said it once,
- 6:27Speaker 2: I have said in a million times investing isn't about
- 6:30Speaker 2: trying to time the market. You can't. I'd be so
- 6:34Speaker 2: rich if you could Beck, because I would try my
- 6:36Speaker 2: hardest to time the market. You best believe I'd be
- 6:39Speaker 2: taking advantage of that system.
- 6:41Speaker 3: Me too.
- 6:41Speaker 2: But the best thing is how long you are in
- 6:44Speaker 2: the market for, because the earlier you start, the less
- 6:47Speaker 2: you contribute, but the bigger results. Yeah, okay, crazy. So
- 6:52Speaker 2: compounding interest is literally according to Einstein and me because basically, yeah,
- 6:58Speaker 2: they just don't even It's really hard. I always can't
- 7:01Speaker 2: tell the difference. Yeah, but Einstein said it was the
- 7:04Speaker 2: eighth wonder of the world. Yes, yes, I do believe
- 7:07Speaker 2: with him. Yeah, you were in that conversation. I believe
- 7:09Speaker 2: each year the money that you invested makes money, and
- 7:12Speaker 2: then that money that has been invested again makes more money.
- 7:17Speaker 2: So it basically is like free money compounding on itself,
- 7:19Speaker 2: and each year adds growth basically, not just in your contributions,
- 7:24Speaker 2: like you might have only invested one hundred dollars that year,
- 7:27Speaker 2: but on all the growth that's happened previously. So you
- 7:30Speaker 2: don't have to throw in thousands of dollars as a
- 7:32Speaker 2: lump sum. You can start small and be consistent and
- 7:35Speaker 2: it will build up.
- 7:36Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 7:36Speaker 2: And one of my favorite resources, and I will link
- 7:38Speaker 2: it in the show notes is the money Smart compound
- 7:41Speaker 2: investment calculator. I used that when I was a financial
- 7:44Speaker 2: advisor with clients. I would like literally moneysmart dot com.
- 7:47Speaker 2: And it was just a really good conversation starter because
- 7:51Speaker 2: you can put in how much you're going to invest,
- 7:53Speaker 2: you can put in the timeframe that you'll be investing in,
- 7:55Speaker 2: and you can see what compounding growth is. You can
- 7:58Speaker 2: change the interest rate based on what you're investing in.
- 8:00Speaker 2: But over a ten year period. Yeah, the money that
- 8:05Speaker 2: your money makes, like the free money component, actually overtakes
- 8:09Speaker 2: how much you contribute. That's so crazy, like money wins. Sorry,
- 8:12Speaker 2: I like free stuff. You like free stuff. Pay attention,
- 8:15Speaker 2: Sit up, we're talking. Yeah, but starting small and staying
- 8:19Speaker 2: consistent absolutely beats any day of the week trying to
- 8:23Speaker 2: quoite catch up later.
- 8:24Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 8:24Speaker 2: So even if it's ten dollars a week, that is
- 8:27Speaker 2: better than later down the track being like, well, I'll
- 8:30Speaker 2: have one hundred bucks next year and I'll try and
- 8:32Speaker 2: invest that every month. I can almost guarantee it doesn't
- 8:36Speaker 2: work out that way. I'll get into some maths later
- 8:38Speaker 2: because I have a lot of stuff written down. The
- 8:41Speaker 2: other good reason to starting vesting with your kids and
- 8:45Speaker 2: I have a son. He is almost two, which I
- 8:49Speaker 2: find insane, like time flies back, this is insane. I
- 8:51Speaker 2: hate it here. But he doesn't comprehend it yet. I'm trying,
- 8:56Speaker 2: but I feel like too a little bit young. But
- 8:59Speaker 2: he t investments. He's got his investment and we will
- 9:02Speaker 2: look at it together once he comprehends that it's not carrot.
- 9:07Speaker 2: Every time I show him, it's like, wow, yeah, he
- 9:09Speaker 2: doesn't get it. But it builds your child's financial literacy
- 9:13Speaker 2: when they want to start talking about money, when you
- 9:15Speaker 2: want to start talking about money with them, it can
- 9:18Speaker 2: be part of your normal family conversations. We're not I
- 9:22Speaker 2: don't know. I feel like money is an overwhelming topic
- 9:25Speaker 2: and so when it comes to children. This is just
- 9:27Speaker 2: my personal opinion. We need to really break it down.
- 9:29Speaker 2: We don't need to be like, oh, mummy and daddy
- 9:31Speaker 2: earn a combined income of x, this is how we
- 9:34Speaker 2: distribute that income, Like that's just a bit much. Sure,
- 9:38Speaker 2: especially when you're under the age of ten, Like that's
- 9:41Speaker 2: just a lot. But if you treat investing like a
- 9:44Speaker 2: family chat, kids are going to grow up seeing that
- 9:47Speaker 2: as part of their everyday life, not just something for
- 9:50Speaker 2: the rich people. It's just like, okay, cool, I get
- 9:53Speaker 2: two dollars pocket money, and fifty cents goes here, and
- 9:55Speaker 2: fifty cents goes towards my investment, and it's just it's
- 9:58Speaker 2: part and parcel of goes on and well why do
- 10:01Speaker 2: you do that? Oh? Well, because I'm putting money aside
- 10:04Speaker 2: for the future. Imagine if everybody got that opportunity when
- 10:09Speaker 2: they are young to set that kind of habit totally.
- 10:13Speaker 2: And most of your habits are formed before the age
- 10:16Speaker 2: of seven. Yeah, like the way you approach things really
- 10:19Speaker 2: does fall out from the way you were parented during childhood.
- 10:23Speaker 2: And that's okay because like, again we could go back
- 10:25Speaker 2: to money stories and talk about how that works, but
- 10:27Speaker 2: like it really does help for you and your children.
- 10:31Speaker 2: Remove this concept that money's really intimidating or money is
- 10:34Speaker 2: hard or it's hard to come by, and it changes
- 10:37Speaker 2: that mindset that stops people from even starting to invest
- 10:40Speaker 2: later in life.
- 10:41Speaker 3: So true, And like this concept that it's an adult thing,
- 10:44Speaker 3: but that also means that when you are an adult
- 10:45Speaker 3: and you're not good with money, you feel shamed for that.
- 10:48Speaker 3: It's like, hey, it's just a thing. You can learn
- 10:50Speaker 3: it at a young age. You can learn it in
- 10:51Speaker 3: an older age.
- 10:52Speaker 2: Whatever investing is for kids, beck, Yeah, like investing can
- 10:56Speaker 2: be for kids. Yeah, in the same way that fifty
- 10:58Speaker 2: years ago people said investing will for women.
- 11:01Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 11:01Speaker 3: So true.
- 11:01Speaker 2: Sorry, Like, don't get me wrong, We're not going to
- 11:04Speaker 2: be setting up retirement funds and talking to our kids
- 11:06Speaker 2: about like capital gains tax and you know, superannuation as
- 11:10Speaker 2: deeply as we would between you and I sure, like sorry,
- 11:13Speaker 2: if we start that habit really young, Yeah, they're just
- 11:16Speaker 2: going to fold on and be like, well, that's just
- 11:18Speaker 2: part of how you do it, right, that's it, and
- 11:21Speaker 2: it gives kids the opportunity. This is just all personal opinion,
- 11:25Speaker 2: but this is what I've seen fold out in my
- 11:27Speaker 2: friends groups, in my family, and you know, not with
- 11:30Speaker 2: my own kids yet, but I'm hoping with my kids
- 11:32Speaker 2: in the future. But they start to connect what they
- 11:35Speaker 2: see around them, so like they see the brands, they
- 11:38Speaker 2: see products, they see tech like kids are so smart. Yeah.
- 11:42Speaker 2: My nearly two year old corrected me the other day
- 11:45Speaker 2: because I turned on the TV and he's obsessed with Frozen.
- 11:49Speaker 2: It's basically the only show that we watch. We watch Frozen,
- 11:53Speaker 2: and I clicked on our remote the Netflix button. Yeah,
- 11:56Speaker 2: and he goes, no, gimmy, oh that his show is
- 12:01Speaker 2: on the Disney button. That's so cute. But also is
- 12:05Speaker 2: that not terrifying? Terrifying? They're so cute you because I
- 12:09Speaker 2: just like flicked the TV on, hit the Netflix thing
- 12:11Speaker 2: and was just like waiting for it to load. No, Dinny,
- 12:14Speaker 2: Oh my god, are you kidding? Anyway, was not happy
- 12:17Speaker 2: with that. But being able to talk to kids about
- 12:21Speaker 2: these products and these services and the brands like hey,
- 12:24Speaker 2: owning a piece of the companies they already know, like
- 12:27Speaker 2: Disney like Apple, Yeah, really helps them understand what shares
- 12:32Speaker 2: actually are, how the world works. When they start earning money,
- 12:36Speaker 2: they get to sixteen, or they get to fourteen and
- 12:38Speaker 2: nine months, they already have this mindset that saving and
- 12:42Speaker 2: investing is good and positive, but they know the difference.
- 12:46Speaker 2: Investing is better than saving. It's going to put you
- 12:49Speaker 2: in a better position long term. You say, for short
- 12:52Speaker 2: term goals. You invest for your future.
- 12:54Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 12:55Speaker 2: Imagine if everyone who was fourteen years and nine months
- 12:57Speaker 2: got that literacy. I know, I'm so sexy, that would
- 13:01Speaker 2: be really cool, right, Like, imagine if when you started
- 13:03Speaker 2: your first job it was just like the immediate division,
- 13:07Speaker 2: not just like, oh, you've got cash coming in back
- 13:09Speaker 2: now to deal with it? Yeah, sorry, that that would
- 13:12Speaker 2: be life changing for so many people. And they learn
- 13:15Speaker 2: that good things take time, like they would have been
- 13:18Speaker 2: able to see, like your fourteen years and nine months,
- 13:20Speaker 2: let's say that you just go, I'm going to start
- 13:22Speaker 2: my investing portfolio. Your kids five, Yeah, sorry, They've had
- 13:26Speaker 2: ten years in the market to look back on. They've
- 13:29Speaker 2: seen that good things take time. We're teaching them about
- 13:33Speaker 2: delayed gratification. And money grows best when it is left alone,
- 13:38Speaker 2: when you don't touch it, when you don't pull it
- 13:40Speaker 2: out to buy new whatever. Boo boos. I don't know
- 13:43Speaker 2: what are the kids buying these days. I don't know
- 13:45Speaker 2: who knows.
- 13:46Speaker 1: It.
- 13:46Speaker 2: Turns out I am definitely falling into that elder millennial
- 13:50Speaker 2: buckets and I'm enjoying it. But when you leave it alone,
- 13:54Speaker 2: it all balances out. And I just think that teaching
- 13:58Speaker 2: kids not just about money, not just about not just
- 14:00Speaker 2: about like putting themselves in the best position, but like,
- 14:03Speaker 2: how good is the learning that patience pays off more
- 14:07Speaker 2: than instant gratification ever, will, Like, if you want something,
- 14:11Speaker 2: you work for it. If you want something, it's going
- 14:13Speaker 2: to take time if you want it to be really good. Yes,
- 14:16Speaker 2: it's not going to be really good the very first time.
- 14:18Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 14:19Speaker 2: Yeah, that's so good to teach people.
- 14:21Speaker 3: That is really really a really good lesson. And I think, like, well,
- 14:25Speaker 3: I appreciate everything you're saying. Is it backed by research?
- 14:28Speaker 3: You know me Stat's girlhood.
- 14:30Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you for like changing the treaty here. But
- 14:33Speaker 2: kids who learn about investing early, they obviously grow portfolios,
- 14:37Speaker 2: but they don't just grow portfolios, they build habits that
- 14:40Speaker 2: help them avoid financial stress later in life. Perfect. That's
- 14:44Speaker 2: very sexy. Yeah. And research also tells us that early
- 14:48Speaker 2: financial literacy is linked to stronger wealth accumulation and less
- 14:53Speaker 2: risky money behavior as an adult.
- 14:55Speaker 3: Okay, that checks out.
- 14:56Speaker 2: So whilst I'm saying, oh, how beautiful, like in teaches
- 15:00Speaker 2: your kid patients, Yeah, ownership and decision making is actually
- 15:05Speaker 2: going to become ingrained from a research perspective to set
- 15:09Speaker 2: them up for the rest of their lives.
- 15:10Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 15:11Speaker 2: Yeah, that's pretty exciting, right.
- 15:13Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 15:14Speaker 2: And I have had the privilege of running this community
- 15:16Speaker 2: for like seven years now, that's crazy. Yeah wow. And
- 15:20Speaker 2: during that seven years, I have had the absolute privilege
- 15:23Speaker 2: of talking to our community members literally every single week,
- 15:27Speaker 2: deeply interviewing them every single week about their money stories.
- 15:31Speaker 2: But the difference between people who grew up with parents
- 15:33Speaker 2: that talked about money and they had financial literacy. We're
- 15:36Speaker 2: not saying people who grew up with money that is
- 15:38Speaker 2: a different story again, definitely, but those who didn't grow
- 15:41Speaker 2: up with financial literacy is like night and day. And
- 15:45Speaker 2: one of the regrets that I have over the last
- 15:47Speaker 2: seven years is that I haven't been better at tracking
- 15:50Speaker 2: that data because like, how powerful would that be? Like
- 15:54Speaker 2: we have, you know, all of our surveys and all
- 15:55Speaker 2: of our research, but there's a very big difference between
- 15:58Speaker 2: getting you to fill in a research and then like
- 16:00Speaker 2: anecdotal evidence where I'm documenting it. Anyway, one day I'll
- 16:03Speaker 2: do a PhD and it will probably be your money stories.
- 16:05Speaker 2: So I'm doing that because I'm interested. Yeah. Also, Beck,
- 16:11Speaker 2: doctor devine sounds pretty cool. That's so cool. Imagine being
- 16:15Speaker 2: like I'm a doctor and then they're like, oh, can
- 16:17Speaker 2: you help on this airplane, I'll be like, no, in
- 16:19Speaker 2: money so funny, Oh my god. I've But the difference
- 16:24Speaker 2: between kids who or adults that we talked to who
- 16:28Speaker 2: had conversations about financial literacy, and we're not talking about like, oh,
- 16:33Speaker 2: mom and dad gave me pocket money, Like we're talking
- 16:35Speaker 2: like they shared just money stories. Maybe they've gone through
- 16:38Speaker 2: bankruptcy and their parents were really constructive about what that
- 16:41Speaker 2: meant and how that worked. Like we're not talking yeah,
- 16:43Speaker 2: financial literacy, as in you gave your child money and
- 16:46Speaker 2: then oh wow, they're so good at money as an adult. No,
- 16:49Speaker 2: it was the conversations totally. It's like the way you
- 16:52Speaker 2: grow up. It's mindset.
- 16:54Speaker 3: Yeah, I completely agree, and I do. You just want
- 16:56Speaker 3: to take this opportunity to really quickly shout out to
- 16:58Speaker 3: people like myself who were young and not very financially literate,
- 17:02Speaker 3: but also couldn't for the ben necessities, the basic noess
- 17:07Speaker 3: and that's like such a difference. That is a difference,
- 17:09Speaker 3: but it's still it's still beneficial to learn all these
- 17:12Speaker 3: things because you can that cycle in the future. So
- 17:16Speaker 3: I do just want to quickly shout out to them
- 17:18Speaker 3: as well, because this is still very, very helpful no
- 17:21Speaker 3: matter what your money story is, one.
- 17:22Speaker 2: Hundred percent, and even if you're like Victoria, like and
- 17:25Speaker 2: we aren't silly here at Sheese on the money, we
- 17:27Speaker 2: know we're in the middle of the cost of living crisis.
- 17:29Speaker 2: Oh yeah, we know that so many parents are going
- 17:32Speaker 2: to listen to this and be like, oh my god,
- 17:33Speaker 2: Like I just learned how to invest for my kids,
- 17:36Speaker 2: and I have literally no cash flow because my husband
- 17:38Speaker 2: and I fight every Thursday afternoon after I get back
- 17:41Speaker 2: from grocery shopping because I always blow the budget and
- 17:43Speaker 2: we don't know what we're going to do about that. Yeah,
- 17:45Speaker 2: that is okay. Yeah, I think the crux of this
- 17:48Speaker 2: story is know what investing is, know how it works,
- 17:51Speaker 2: be able to have these conversations with your kids. Honestly,
- 17:55Speaker 2: the best thing that you can do is be open
- 17:57Speaker 2: and honest around money within reasons age appropriateness, but even
- 18:02Speaker 2: just saying, oh, like, let's go back to baby Beck, right, Like,
- 18:05Speaker 2: I know that you didn't grow up with a heap
- 18:06Speaker 2: of money, and I know that you didn't have a
- 18:08Speaker 2: lot of finance and money conversations, Like you probably understood
- 18:13Speaker 2: that money was scarce. You probably like you picked up
- 18:16Speaker 2: on that because kids are smart, Like you get it,
- 18:18Speaker 2: like asking mom for money that would have given you
- 18:21Speaker 2: like that pit in the bottom of your stomach because
- 18:23Speaker 2: you didn't want to do it, because you knew that
- 18:24Speaker 2: stress mum out totally. So imagine if the conversations in
- 18:29Speaker 2: your household weren't about how much money we didn't have.
- 18:31Speaker 2: But opic we're going to do the budgeting this week
- 18:34Speaker 2: for the grocery shop. We only have fifty dollars. How
- 18:36Speaker 2: do you reckon?
- 18:37Speaker 3: We could spend it totally?
- 18:38Speaker 2: Like, oh, this dinner and like back when you were little,
- 18:42Speaker 2: dinners being ten dollars was pretty reasonable. Yeah, but like
- 18:45Speaker 2: you know, what could we cook for ten dollars? Oh,
- 18:47Speaker 2: we could do this? What if we took this out? Yeah,
- 18:50Speaker 2: and didn't have that in that pasta dish? That brings
- 18:52Speaker 2: it down to eight dollars. We've got another two dollars
- 18:54Speaker 2: to play with over here, like kids get it? Yeah,
- 18:57Speaker 2: and it actually really helps. And it's not just my
- 19:00Speaker 2: instead around to our beck we don't have enough, yea,
- 19:02Speaker 2: it's like we have to work with this. Let's raise
- 19:06Speaker 2: this as an opportunity.
- 19:07Speaker 3: Yeah, that's so true.
- 19:08Speaker 2: And I'm not saying that that makes it easier. No,
- 19:10Speaker 2: money is still bloody hard, oh god, But we're all
- 19:14Speaker 2: raising little humans and we want them to have good
- 19:17Speaker 2: mindsets r So what can we do that doesn't cost
- 19:20Speaker 2: a scent?
- 19:20Speaker 3: So true? I think it's a really good place to
- 19:22Speaker 3: go to a really quick break, because I.
- 19:25Speaker 2: Do want to talk more about investing an investment strategy,
- 19:28Speaker 2: whether it's relatable.
- 19:29Speaker 3: Or not perfect. I can't wait to hear it. Don't
- 19:31Speaker 3: go anywhere, guys. Welcome back everyone. So if someone is
- 19:39Speaker 3: listening and can see the benefits and they want to
- 19:41Speaker 3: invest in the share market for their kids, what are
- 19:44Speaker 3: their options?
- 19:45Speaker 2: There are good options, which is very exciting. Let's backtrack
- 19:49Speaker 2: a little bit because I need to give you a
- 19:50Speaker 2: little bit of like history. Yes, before we jump into
- 19:55Speaker 2: what they can do. Children can't own direct shares, So
- 19:59Speaker 2: if they're un the age of eighteen, they actually can't
- 20:02Speaker 2: enter into a binding contract. So legally to purchase a share,
- 20:06Speaker 2: which is an asset, they would need to sign their name.
- 20:09Speaker 2: They can't do that because they can't give informed consent,
- 20:12Speaker 2: gotcha right. So that means that as a parent who
- 20:16Speaker 2: wants to help their children invest it, like, you can't
- 20:19Speaker 2: go down to the AX and just be like, oh,
- 20:21Speaker 2: I'm going to open a share trading account in baby
- 20:23Speaker 2: Beeck's name and I am going to invest in like.
- 20:26Speaker 2: It just doesn't work that way, unfortunately. So you actually
- 20:30Speaker 2: have two options to choose from. So you could invest
- 20:33Speaker 2: in your name for your children, or you could set
- 20:37Speaker 2: up a children's account. It's not in their name, but
- 20:41Speaker 2: it is allocated to them, and you are nominated as
- 20:45Speaker 2: the trustee on that account. So that sounds a little
- 20:48Speaker 2: bit confusing because I'm starting to use words like trustee
- 20:51Speaker 2: and like, you know, a miner's account and whatnot. It's
- 20:54Speaker 2: not trustee literally just means you're the responsible party for it.
- 20:58Speaker 2: Sure like it. Say there's a s'saxation word that basically
- 21:02Speaker 2: a legal word that just means, like trustee means that
- 21:05Speaker 2: you're the like you're responsible. Okay, so you're gonna happily
- 21:08Speaker 2: do that. You could also get a little bit more
- 21:11Speaker 2: complex and you could set up a family trust. But
- 21:14Speaker 2: if you've listened to me before, I would say that
- 21:17Speaker 2: that's not for everybody. Lots of people like to look
- 21:19Speaker 2: that up, lots of people like to entertain that as
- 21:22Speaker 2: an option, and I think more and more of us
- 21:24Speaker 2: are stumbling across this family trust structure. I'm going that
- 21:31Speaker 2: might be a good idea because of the rise of AI. Yeah,
- 21:35Speaker 2: and I say that because you if you go to
- 21:37Speaker 2: chat GPT and say, how could I invest for my children,
- 21:39Speaker 2: which is a great place to start, Like we love
- 21:41Speaker 2: research chat GPT is going to go. Oh well, there's
- 21:44Speaker 2: three main options. You could invest in your own name,
- 21:46Speaker 2: you could set up a kid's account with a platform
- 21:48Speaker 2: that allows it, or you could set up a family trust.
- 21:51Speaker 2: But what they don't tell you is how expensive family
- 21:53Speaker 2: trusts are. What they don't tell you is how complex
- 21:56Speaker 2: they can be. That it's a second layer of like
- 21:59Speaker 2: literal ta compliance. You need to make sure that you're
- 22:03Speaker 2: auditing that trust and it also has its own tax return. Yeah,
- 22:07Speaker 2: so when you go for simple questions like that, maybe
- 22:11Speaker 2: you don't get the background. We actually have an episode
- 22:15Speaker 2: talking about family trust. Make sure it's linked below to
- 22:18Speaker 2: make sure that if you're really interested, you can go there.
- 22:20Speaker 2: I have disclosed before that I have a family trust, yes,
- 22:23Speaker 2: but honestly, babe, that's because I have businesses. Yeah, I
- 22:27Speaker 2: don't invest for my kids in that, and I have
- 22:29Speaker 2: no intention of using that for my kids. Got you Okay, Like, yeah,
- 22:33Speaker 2: not advice, but personally I wouldn't do that. Okay, Yeah,
- 22:36Speaker 2: give your stories because I am a licensed yes individual anyway,
- 22:43Speaker 2: So option one, let's dive into it a little bit more. Yeah,
- 22:47Speaker 2: you are a regular adult. You open a regular adult
- 22:51Speaker 2: investment account and you hold the investments in your name.
- 22:55Speaker 2: So you've gone exactly the same way Beck you did.
- 22:58Speaker 2: You got shareses, but the money in there, you've got
- 23:01Speaker 2: it like earmarked or your kid, so there's not any
- 23:05Speaker 2: difference in how you would invest individually as to how
- 23:09Speaker 2: you might invest for your child. Lots of people do
- 23:12Speaker 2: it this way. This method is I would say, pretty
- 23:16Speaker 2: bread and butter. Comes with all the usual options, the
- 23:19Speaker 2: normal fees, the tax rules that apply to your marginal
- 23:23Speaker 2: tax rate, all the same tax rules, all the same
- 23:26Speaker 2: laws apply as an adult account. Just because you've got
- 23:29Speaker 2: it earmarked for your child doesn't mean the ATO knows
- 23:33Speaker 2: that if your TFN is linked to that account, it
- 23:37Speaker 2: means that some of that income will contribute to your
- 23:41Speaker 2: taxable income, which is where people who have higher income
- 23:44Speaker 2: start to go, Well, you know, if I'm paying forty
- 23:46Speaker 2: seven percent tax, I don't really want to do that,
- 23:48Speaker 2: and you might start to look at other options. But
- 23:51Speaker 2: it's for you is a complex decision. Yeah, okay. So
- 23:56Speaker 2: let's say you've invested for eighteen years and then you
- 23:59Speaker 2: have said to your kid, this is yours all along,
- 24:00Speaker 2: and you want to transfer it to your kid. That's
- 24:02Speaker 2: fantastic to transfer it to your kid. You can't just
- 24:05Speaker 2: change names. You have to sell those shares to give
- 24:09Speaker 2: them the money. You can't just transfer shares into somebody
- 24:12Speaker 2: else's name, or you have to dispose of them and
- 24:15Speaker 2: then reinvest them if that's what you want to do.
- 24:18Speaker 3: But by this point the share price might be higher.
- 24:22Speaker 2: Yes, I see it, because you've had all this sexy
- 24:24Speaker 2: compound interest because you've been investing for them for like
- 24:28Speaker 2: eighteen years. What happens is you get a really big
- 24:33Speaker 2: CGT event, so a capital gains tax event will happen
- 24:37Speaker 2: because the at will go, oh fantastic, Beck, you want
- 24:40Speaker 2: to sell those shares. Yeah, I know you're only investing
- 24:43Speaker 2: ten dollars a week or whatever, but we looked at
- 24:46Speaker 2: it and you now have like a couple of hundred grand.
- 24:49Speaker 2: So you're actually going to be up for tens of
- 24:51Speaker 2: thousands of dollars of tax on this when you sell it,
- 24:55Speaker 2: because it's capital gains. Oh my good. So you've paid
- 24:58Speaker 2: your tax along the way, okay on the money that
- 25:01Speaker 2: your money is aren't And that's fine, sure, but capital
- 25:04Speaker 2: gains happens when you dispose of an asset if that
- 25:08Speaker 2: makes sense. So it does, so you might not find
- 25:11Speaker 2: that as sexy of an option when you go. But
- 25:15Speaker 2: I want it to be in Beck's name. I don't
- 25:17Speaker 2: want it to sit in mum's name forever. You're eighteen.
- 25:19Speaker 2: The intent was to give it to you to manage
- 25:21Speaker 2: on your own. But we'll also lose a fair chunk
- 25:24Speaker 2: of this money if we dispose of it and put
- 25:26Speaker 2: it in your name because we have to play CGD.
- 25:28Speaker 3: Is there any way of so you go, You got
- 25:32Speaker 3: to pay that eventually, I assume if you want to,
- 25:34Speaker 3: like ever, that's.
- 25:35Speaker 2: How you want to do it, because legally the shares
- 25:37Speaker 2: aren't linked to your child like they true, that was
- 25:40Speaker 2: always in your name and it's just your intention to
- 25:43Speaker 2: give it to them at some point. Legally they're yours,
- 25:46Speaker 2: they're not your child's. Yeah, you do get more flexibility
- 25:50Speaker 2: with that money though, So like I used to talk
- 25:54Speaker 2: to a lot of people about investing for their children,
- 25:57Speaker 2: and you just never know how your kid's going to
- 25:58Speaker 2: grow up, So do the absolute best that we can.
- 26:02Speaker 2: But that doesn't mean that your child will necessarily make
- 26:07Speaker 2: the best decisions in the entire world. And if you
- 26:10Speaker 2: set up a structure that automatically rolled into their name
- 26:12Speaker 2: at the age of eighteen. I have seen it go
- 26:16Speaker 2: awry where that eighteen year old is not a responsible
- 26:19Speaker 2: eighteen year old. They might be struggling with addiction, they
- 26:22Speaker 2: might be struggling with gambling, they might have issues with
- 26:28Speaker 2: impulse control. There might just be a really good eighteen
- 26:31Speaker 2: year old who came into a lot of money and
- 26:33Speaker 2: got really excited totally, So that might be kind of
- 26:37Speaker 2: cool that if you're investing under your own name, you'd
- 26:39Speaker 2: be like, you are not getting that cash hold of
- 26:40Speaker 2: right now, you cannot be responsible. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I
- 26:45Speaker 2: like that. Yeah, Okay, so you didn't work that hard
- 26:48Speaker 2: and invest that many years investing beck Yeah, to then
- 26:51Speaker 2: hand it over to somebody who might not be the
- 26:53Speaker 2: most responsible person in the world at that point in
- 26:55Speaker 2: their life, it'd.
- 26:56Speaker 3: Be hard to watch.
- 26:57Speaker 2: Let's talk about option two. Yes, I could tell you
- 27:00Speaker 2: a lot of gossip, but I will leave that on
- 27:02Speaker 2: the table. The second option was a kid's account with
- 27:06Speaker 2: you as the trustee. So you're the responsible person. So
- 27:10Speaker 2: ultimately you open a kid's account in your name as
- 27:13Speaker 2: a trustee for your child. And there are a few
- 27:15Speaker 2: platforms that offer this. At this point in time, shares
- 27:18Speaker 2: is being I would say, newest to the market and
- 27:20Speaker 2: the one that I've been waiting for. The investment legally
- 27:24Speaker 2: belongs to the child, but as the trustee, you manage
- 27:27Speaker 2: it for them until the age of eighteen. And these accounts,
- 27:31Speaker 2: they still come with rules, right, So the child will
- 27:34Speaker 2: have to have a tax file number and it needs
- 27:37Speaker 2: to be linked to the account, not to the parents. Okay,
- 27:40Speaker 2: So any income is then reported under the child's tax
- 27:44Speaker 2: file number. So that means that the miners tax rules
- 27:48Speaker 2: do apply.
- 27:49Speaker 3: Are you okay?
- 27:50Speaker 2: And you know how I feel about those miners. Yes,
- 27:52Speaker 2: tax rules, and the ATO applies special miners tax rates,
- 27:59Speaker 2: and I don't really like them because they're astronomical sometimes
- 28:05Speaker 2: and we'll get into that. But the reason they do
- 28:08Speaker 2: this is not to punish your kid because they're investing early.
- 28:11Speaker 2: It's because they needed to change the tax rules because
- 28:14Speaker 2: really rich people were taking advantage of them and using
- 28:17Speaker 2: their kids to distribute their income at a really low rate,
- 28:21Speaker 2: and that's not cool. So basically they were designed to
- 28:25Speaker 2: stop all these tax rules were designed to stop parents
- 28:28Speaker 2: from putting investments into their kids' names and then avoiding
- 28:31Speaker 2: paying tax.
- 28:32Speaker 3: I can ask a really really quick question. Of course,
- 28:34Speaker 3: you can always confuse by if you can't actually legally
- 28:37Speaker 3: get a job until fourteen years and nine months, which
- 28:39Speaker 3: is a very random also a very random time, they.
- 28:42Speaker 2: Why not make it fifteen years?
- 28:44Speaker 4: Then?
- 28:44Speaker 3: How how would a miner be making money?
- 28:47Speaker 2: Anyways of ways that miners can make money child actors? True,
- 28:52Speaker 2: of course you might actually come from a relatively wealthy
- 28:55Speaker 2: family and have an asset distributed to you on pom
- 28:58Speaker 2: birth you got you, And this is where it used
- 29:02Speaker 2: to only not only apply you could have done it,
- 29:05Speaker 2: but it was more complex and like historically, investing was
- 29:09Speaker 2: much harder to get into, Like we've talked about this before,
- 29:12Speaker 2: Like there were really high amounts of money that you
- 29:14Speaker 2: had to invest to even invest in the sher market
- 29:16Speaker 2: for the first time. And nowadays, with platforms like chares is,
- 29:19Speaker 2: you can invest for as little as one sense, so
- 29:21Speaker 2: they're so much more accessible. But historically, really rich families
- 29:24Speaker 2: would be like, oh, well, we'll give baby Beck ten
- 29:27Speaker 2: thousand dollars worth of PHP shares when she's born, and
- 29:30Speaker 2: we bought them in British sterling with rich rich you
- 29:34Speaker 2: know what I mean, So like you might just be
- 29:37Speaker 2: basically dress fun baby, and we need a way of
- 29:39Speaker 2: tracking that. This system was born and then people started
- 29:44Speaker 2: taking advantage of it and the tax system and the
- 29:46Speaker 2: ADO man was like, ah ah, no, no, you've got
- 29:49Speaker 2: to stop this, and so they put rules on it.
- 29:51Speaker 2: And now those rules do feel restrictive because investing has
- 29:55Speaker 2: become more accessible. And now investing is more accessible, you
- 29:58Speaker 2: and I could do it, and we're in doing small amounts.
- 30:01Speaker 2: We're not trying to take advantage of the system. But
- 30:03Speaker 2: the system still crucifies you. Basically got you because they
- 30:09Speaker 2: have assumed that mainly this system will be used by
- 30:12Speaker 2: the rich rich understood, okay, okay, And these like these
- 30:16Speaker 2: tax rates apply to unearned income, So if you were
- 30:20Speaker 2: working as a child, that's different than unearned income because
- 30:25Speaker 2: like if you're a kid and someone's gifting you money
- 30:27Speaker 2: into your share portfolio and you're making money from that,
- 30:30Speaker 2: like you didn't work for it, basically, and that's sexy
- 30:33Speaker 2: because we love not working for money. But also the
- 30:35Speaker 2: ATO sees that as unearned income, so things like dividends
- 30:38Speaker 2: and interest and distributions from an ETF or a managed
- 30:43Speaker 2: fund fall under that earned income. Like once you're fourteen,
- 30:46Speaker 2: years and nine months and it's a little bit more vanilla,
- 30:49Speaker 2: like your wage from a part time job. They go, oh, no, no, no,
- 30:52Speaker 2: that's legitimate work, and it's just taxed at normal adult rates.
- 30:56Speaker 2: Like the minus rules don't apply. That's why you might
- 30:58Speaker 2: be like thee. None of these rules applied when I
- 31:00Speaker 2: was under eighteen and I had my first job, because
- 31:03Speaker 2: you were earning the income. This is what we're talking about,
- 31:06Speaker 2: is the unearned income. So if you've followed me thus
- 31:11Speaker 2: far and you're still hanging out, letting me talk to you,
- 31:14Speaker 2: probably in your car at minus tax rates. One, thank
- 31:17Speaker 2: you for having me. Two, let me tell you what
- 31:21Speaker 2: those thresholds are and get into the nitty gritty. So
- 31:24Speaker 2: your kid can earn up to four hundred and sixteen
- 31:26Speaker 2: dollars each in every single financial year or right now,
- 31:30Speaker 2: we're just talking about the twenty twenty five twenty twenty
- 31:32Speaker 2: six financial year rules. First, four hundred and sixteen dollars
- 31:36Speaker 2: tax free. Great. If you earn between four hundred and
- 31:40Speaker 2: seventeen and one thy three hundred and seven dollars sixty
- 31:45Speaker 2: six percent tax, Jeez, isn't that rude?
- 31:49Speaker 3: That's insane?
- 31:51Speaker 2: More than that. So if you earn more than thirteen
- 31:54Speaker 2: hundred and seven dollars, It's forty five percent, which is
- 31:59Speaker 2: the highest margin tax bracket for an adult on the
- 32:02Speaker 2: whole amount over thirteen hundred and seven dollars plus the
- 32:08Speaker 2: five hundred and ninety four dollars from the earlier tier.
- 32:11Speaker 3: Okay, why don't they just make it slightly more than
- 32:13Speaker 3: the adult rates? So adults are like, Okay, well, I
- 32:15Speaker 3: won't do it anymore. It's not it's no longer effective. Like, no,
- 32:18Speaker 3: we're going to go above and beyond with it.
- 32:20Speaker 2: We've really said, hahaha, have fun trying to set your
- 32:24Speaker 2: kid up for life.
- 32:25Speaker 3: Yeah, like, oh, so we actually don't care about the
- 32:28Speaker 3: poor people that are actually trying to make money. We're
- 32:29Speaker 3: thinking only of the rich and we don't want you
- 32:31Speaker 3: to a benefit anymore, which is yah.
- 32:32Speaker 2: So this this all stuff that we have to be
- 32:35Speaker 2: really aware of, crazy because like, let's be honest, it
- 32:39Speaker 2: might work out for the best. And I do have
- 32:41Speaker 2: a strategy that can be helpful in minimizing tax later
- 32:44Speaker 2: in the episode that we will get to. But so
- 32:47Speaker 2: beck money win. Many kids accounts have low account fees, Okay,
- 32:52Speaker 2: thlus the money win. The love of money win. Withdrawals
- 32:56Speaker 2: must benefit the child, ah, so that you can't just
- 32:58Speaker 2: withdraw the money and be like, huh, that's my now lol.
- 33:01Speaker 2: It must benefit the child because the account operates like
- 33:04Speaker 2: a bear trust, So that means that any withdrawals need
- 33:08Speaker 2: to be used for the child's benefits. So it needs
- 33:10Speaker 2: to be for things like education or future savings or
- 33:13Speaker 2: similar to that. Like you might be going, oh, I'm
- 33:16Speaker 2: actually using it for them. It has to be for them,
- 33:19Speaker 2: not just because you decided to withdraw it. Parents can't
- 33:22Speaker 2: legally use the funds for themselves. How do they regulate that.
- 33:27Speaker 2: It's a very hard honesty system basically, but if you
- 33:31Speaker 2: get audited by the ATO, they'll be kbeck. So you
- 33:34Speaker 2: pulled out one thousand dollars from your kid's account, could
- 33:37Speaker 2: you please show us where that went? And it's twenty
- 33:39Speaker 2: twenty six, so sorry. They've probably got the tracking on
- 33:43Speaker 2: what account it came from, what account it went to,
- 33:45Speaker 2: and they can probably trace it. So as much as
- 33:47Speaker 2: it's an honesty system, they could probably work it out
- 33:50Speaker 2: from doing a deep dive into bank statements that includes
- 33:53Speaker 2: during financial hardship. I see, So if you were investing
- 33:57Speaker 2: in your own name, yes, it's earmarked for your but
- 34:00Speaker 2: if you were experiencing financial hardship, you could pull it
- 34:02Speaker 2: out in no worries. No one's going to question you
- 34:04Speaker 2: because technically it's legally yours. Okay, amazing. So what I
- 34:09Speaker 2: would say is you never ever, ever, and I've said
- 34:11Speaker 2: this a million times one, it will be investing in
- 34:13Speaker 2: your emergency fund or any money that you might need
- 34:17Speaker 2: to access for you. It's just the child in there. Yes,
- 34:21Speaker 2: transfer of ownership happens at eighteen, so when a child
- 34:25Speaker 2: reaches adulthood, the account can formally be transferred into their
- 34:28Speaker 2: name without triggering capital gains tax. Oh soon, know how
- 34:32Speaker 2: I said before, like, that's an issue if it's in
- 34:34Speaker 2: your name because it was always legally theirs and you
- 34:37Speaker 2: were just the trustee. We're dropping the trustee. They don't
- 34:40Speaker 2: need the supervision anymore because they're of age. Some accounts
- 34:44Speaker 2: actually give you the ability to transfer it up to
- 34:47Speaker 2: the age of twenty five if you feel like your
- 34:52Speaker 2: kid maybe not ready for it at eighteen, got you?
- 34:55Speaker 1: Okay?
- 34:55Speaker 2: So I'm not just saying, oh my god, Victoria saw
- 34:58Speaker 2: all of these things happen. No, this is an industry
- 35:00Speaker 2: wide thing. I think it's not. I'm sorry. I think
- 35:04Speaker 2: it's just a teenage thing. You turn, you're not immediately
- 35:07Speaker 2: like your frontal lobe still has so much growing too.
- 35:10Speaker 2: It's so young. I look back at me at eighteen,
- 35:13Speaker 2: and I thought I was so smart. Girls, sit down,
- 35:15Speaker 2: I know. And one thing worthy of thinking about as
- 35:19Speaker 2: always is minimum investment amount. Some platforms like chare Z's,
- 35:24Speaker 2: and this is not even me promoting them, but literally
- 35:27Speaker 2: like Shares is let you buy fractional shares with no
- 35:30Speaker 2: minimum amount, So it's totally possible to invest, like literally
- 35:33Speaker 2: back one dollar or that fifty dollars birthday money that
- 35:36Speaker 2: they got from their aunt in a card, or just
- 35:39Speaker 2: popping in ten dollars a week. So that's completely feasible.
- 35:42Speaker 2: And that continuity and consistency really does matter, and it
- 35:46Speaker 2: makes investing accessible even if you don't have a really
- 35:49Speaker 2: big lump sum at the start.
- 35:50Speaker 3: Amazing.
- 35:51Speaker 2: And historically on other episodes talking about investing, I've talked
- 35:56Speaker 2: about investment bonds and things like that, and they do
- 35:59Speaker 2: have a minute investments, usually of hundreds of dollars. It's
- 36:02Speaker 2: just not feasible for everybody. No, So like, yes, don't
- 36:05Speaker 2: get me wrong, there's lots of different structures, but like,
- 36:09Speaker 2: I think it's really important to also be accessible, and like,
- 36:11Speaker 2: I'm sorry, your kid isn't going to sit down with
- 36:13Speaker 2: you at like six and be like, oh, I'm investing,
- 36:16Speaker 2: and you're letting them invest hundreds of dollars each transaction? Yeah? Crazy, Sorry,
- 36:20Speaker 2: really get them money from exactly? Like how much are
- 36:23Speaker 2: you paying your kid in pocket money? And if it's
- 36:25Speaker 2: that much, why are you listening to she's on them? True? Okay,
- 36:30Speaker 2: I love that you're here. But if you can afford
- 36:33Speaker 2: to give your kids thousands of dollars to invest on
- 36:36Speaker 2: a regular and consistent basis, you've made it. You probably
- 36:39Speaker 2: don't need us.
- 36:40Speaker 3: Yeah, congratulations, you actually pass the course, so she's in
- 36:43Speaker 3: the money calls.
- 36:44Speaker 2: Yeah, you actually graduated ages ago. That's all good. But
- 36:48Speaker 2: like we're just talking about a relatively relatable here.
- 36:52Speaker 3: Yeah, but thank you so much for being his stiff.
- 36:55Speaker 2: Appreciate it. And I mean, having a separate account does
- 36:58Speaker 2: let you separate their future mone from the money that
- 37:00Speaker 2: you have. Having it in yours can get a little
- 37:02Speaker 2: bit murky. That's where you sometimes find parents who are
- 37:05Speaker 2: choosing that strategy to oh, well, I'm going to have
- 37:09Speaker 2: my kids account on Chasias and I might just use
- 37:11Speaker 2: another platform. You don't really like having two platforms, but
- 37:14Speaker 2: you just like wanted to keep them separate. Yeah, and
- 37:16Speaker 2: it could get a little bit messy and then you're
- 37:18Speaker 2: paying double fees and then you're like, anyway, it's just
- 37:21Speaker 2: not as fun when everything's in your name. I would
- 37:24Speaker 2: say it's easier for their quote future fund to blur
- 37:27Speaker 2: with you, like your general savings. You might ife an
- 37:30Speaker 2: invest it anyway, and a kids account. I would say
- 37:34Speaker 2: it just creates a like psychological and legal like boundary. Yeah,
- 37:40Speaker 2: but like for me, it's about the psychological boundary mostly
- 37:43Speaker 2: like love the legals of it, but like, I just
- 37:45Speaker 2: love that your kid would have their own little platform.
- 37:48Speaker 2: So like you log in and you show them their kids.
- 37:50Speaker 2: They can see their growth and that's theirs and it's
- 37:54Speaker 2: clear and it's consistent and it helps you stay on track.
- 37:57Speaker 2: So true, and you can be like, oh, you could
- 37:59Speaker 2: look at mmiesmummies. There's a little bit more complex, but
- 38:02Speaker 2: here's this like and we're having fun conversations. For me,
- 38:05Speaker 2: investing for kids is so exciting because I know that
- 38:09Speaker 2: you're doing it because you want to put your future
- 38:10Speaker 2: kid first, Like you're just like, I want you to
- 38:12Speaker 2: have the best financial future, And like, I don't think
- 38:14Speaker 2: I've ever met a parent who says I don't want
- 38:18Speaker 2: better for my kid than I had. Like, we all
- 38:21Speaker 2: want better for our kids. Whether we can afford that
- 38:24Speaker 2: or not, we want that. But importantly, even if you're
- 38:27Speaker 2: investing really small amounts, it's an educational tool. When kids
- 38:31Speaker 2: can log in and see their own little balance growing,
- 38:34Speaker 2: it turns investing into something tangible, and you are giving
- 38:37Speaker 2: them the financial literacy that you never had. Yeah, even
- 38:40Speaker 2: if it's ten dollars, do you know how excited ten
- 38:44Speaker 2: dollars to kids? Oh my lord, we can't buy lunch
- 38:47Speaker 2: for ten dollars anymore, but could basically convince any under
- 38:52Speaker 2: ten year old to wash your car, vacuum it out,
- 38:55Speaker 2: all for under ten bucks, you know what I mean.
- 38:57Speaker 2: They think that's so much money. You might not, but
- 39:01Speaker 2: they see that and you go, oh my god, your
- 39:02Speaker 2: ten dollars is now worth eleven dollars. Isn't that so crazy?
- 39:05Speaker 2: It's so crazy. That was a dollar of free money
- 39:07Speaker 2: and you didn't even have to vacuum the car. That's incredible, right,
- 39:10Speaker 2: And the idea around or like the concept of having
- 39:14Speaker 2: a kid's account is that it's tax free it transfer,
- 39:16Speaker 2: which we love to see because obviously we don't want
- 39:19Speaker 2: to pay more tax than we have to. So when
- 39:21Speaker 2: they turn eighteen, you can usually transfer the portfolio into
- 39:23Speaker 2: their name without triggering CGT because it was legally theirs
- 39:27Speaker 2: and you were just the trustee as opposed to you
- 39:29Speaker 2: it being in your name back and like having to
- 39:31Speaker 2: go through the legal rigmarole. You're kind of just removing
- 39:34Speaker 2: yourself as a trustee. And if the investments were in
- 39:36Speaker 2: your name, that transfer would have triggered a CGT event
- 39:40Speaker 2: at your tax rate, Yes, on your tax return, got
- 39:43Speaker 2: you got you got. So it's not even your kid
- 39:45Speaker 2: who pays a tax that comes up for you.
- 39:47Speaker 3: Yeah, that really is shocking.
- 39:48Speaker 2: So I pay your own tax, you rich, and then
- 39:51Speaker 2: you make me pay your tax still I know, no illegal.
- 39:53Speaker 3: That part really shocks me. So the taxing sounds pretty
- 39:57Speaker 3: complicated and like scary. It almost like and I don't know,
- 40:00Speaker 3: this is probably not right, but I'm almost like, Okay,
- 40:03Speaker 3: what's the point.
- 40:04Speaker 2: Those tax rates I gave you before sound astronomical and overwhelming,
- 40:08Speaker 2: and that is what usually scares parents off. But I
- 40:10Speaker 2: do want to and I promised some maths. I do
- 40:13Speaker 2: want to break it down for you. So the big
- 40:15Speaker 2: rate only kicks in if the account in total, not
- 40:18Speaker 2: if you invested four hundred and sixteen, but if the
- 40:21Speaker 2: account makes more than four hundred and sixteen dollars of
- 40:24Speaker 2: investment income in one year.
- 40:26Speaker 3: So let's say you put a dollar in and somehow
- 40:28Speaker 3: that dollar has turned into four hundred and seventeen.
- 40:30Speaker 2: Dollars, like you might be talking about tax on that
- 40:34Speaker 2: one dollar above the four hundred and sixteen dollar threshold threshold.
- 40:39Speaker 2: So these are things like your dividends. So you know
- 40:42Speaker 2: when you open your portfolio and you have more than
- 40:45Speaker 2: a one thousand dollars in there now, but we're not
- 40:48Speaker 2: talking about your thousand dollars. We're talking about the money
- 40:50Speaker 2: that has been made by your port golarge. Should we
- 40:52Speaker 2: be talking about the dividends and the distributions. And this
- 40:55Speaker 2: is not on capital growth of the shares unless you
- 40:58Speaker 2: sell them. Okay, if you're investing for your kid for
- 41:01Speaker 2: the long term, I'm assuming you're not planning on selling them, right, Yeah,
- 41:05Speaker 2: And there are ways to minimize investment income, So based
- 41:09Speaker 2: on what you choose to invest in, if you focus
- 41:12Speaker 2: on like high growth, low yield ETFs, So like ETFs
- 41:16Speaker 2: that have really strong growth but don't pay lots of dividends,
- 41:21Speaker 2: which is exactly opposite to what I think I've told
- 41:23Speaker 2: you before. Like, if you go and listen to my
- 41:25Speaker 2: adults investing content and you're like, V, what's your favorite
- 41:28Speaker 2: type of share, I'm like, go, the one that makes
- 41:30Speaker 2: me money because it increases in income, and the one
- 41:32Speaker 2: that pays me money for owning it. Yeah, I love
- 41:35Speaker 2: a little double dip. I want to be making money totally.
- 41:39Speaker 2: Because I call me greedy, I don't even care. I
- 41:41Speaker 2: just want to get wealthy, and that's what most of
- 41:43Speaker 2: us want. But for a children's account, you might consider
- 41:49Speaker 2: an ETF that just has really strong growth but doesn't
- 41:52Speaker 2: pay a lot of dividends. So your kids investment worth
- 41:56Speaker 2: still growth, but their yearly income is going to be lower. Yeah,
- 41:59Speaker 2: a lot of like dividends being paid into their account.
- 42:02Speaker 2: And because capital gains tax only applies when you sell
- 42:05Speaker 2: an asset, essentially you're deferring the tax on that growth
- 42:09Speaker 2: until later, and ideally when later happens, your kid's an adult,
- 42:14Speaker 2: and it's not a sixty six percent tax rate, it's
- 42:16Speaker 2: their marginal tax rate of whatever they earn and like
- 42:19Speaker 2: they'll never experience that sixty six percent tax rate. Got you?
- 42:23Speaker 3: Okay, okay, So how do we actually pick something that
- 42:26Speaker 3: is high growth and low yield? Yield yield yield ye
- 42:32Speaker 3: old year old.
- 42:33Speaker 2: It's one of those things. It just comes back to research.
- 42:37Speaker 2: And I think that's a really good question because like
- 42:39Speaker 2: high growth low yield sounds complicated and also like something
- 42:43Speaker 2: that not lots of people might be like, oh, yeah,
- 42:45Speaker 2: I'd love just growth. Yeah, but that happens. That's a
- 42:48Speaker 2: valid strategy. It's actually really simple when you know what
- 42:52Speaker 2: to look for. So if you've decided v this strategy
- 42:56Speaker 2: is for me, that's exactly what I want to do.
- 42:59Speaker 2: What you're trying to find are investments that make most
- 43:02Speaker 2: of their return from the value of the company increasing,
- 43:06Speaker 2: so not because they pay out big dividends every few months.
- 43:10Speaker 2: So a really good example of a big company that
- 43:13Speaker 2: pays out dividends consistently. And I've used it on the
- 43:15Speaker 2: show before, Nab the Bank. I just use this because
- 43:20Speaker 2: I feel like I used to have lots of clients
- 43:22Speaker 2: that used it, and I know it like the back
- 43:24Speaker 2: of my hand. That is a bank share. And as
- 43:27Speaker 2: we know, bank shares are pretty stable in the market,
- 43:30Speaker 2: like they don't increase in value significantly over time. They do,
- 43:33Speaker 2: but they don't you know, have year on year growth
- 43:35Speaker 2: of the value of the asset. But they do pay
- 43:38Speaker 2: consistent dividends. And that's why lots of people when you're
- 43:41Speaker 2: talking about blue chip shares, they're picking things like the
- 43:44Speaker 2: HP and one of the big four banks and all
- 43:47Speaker 2: of that kind of like I would say, old school.
- 43:50Speaker 2: When you're thinking about investment, you think boring, old school,
- 43:53Speaker 2: your grandpa probably invested in it kind of shares. The
- 43:56Speaker 2: reason people like those is they're consistently paying dis ends.
- 44:00Speaker 2: They're not necessarily increasing in value astronomically, but they're slow
- 44:04Speaker 2: and steady, they're proven, they pay out dividends. We love
- 44:08Speaker 2: making money. That's probably not what you're looking at here,
- 44:11Speaker 2: got you. So, when you're researching ETFs or managed funds,
- 44:16Speaker 2: you're going to look for two things. You're going to
- 44:18Speaker 2: look at the distribution yield, and you're also going to
- 44:20Speaker 2: look at the growth focus that that ETF or that
- 44:23Speaker 2: managed fund has, and that's going to just be in
- 44:25Speaker 2: the funds description like it will say this fund is
- 44:29Speaker 2: focused on growth or this fund is focused on increasing
- 44:33Speaker 2: sharehold dividend distribution. You go cool, So it's focused on
- 44:37Speaker 2: paying me, or it's focused on increasing how much that
- 44:40Speaker 2: company is worth. Now because they are high growth, they
- 44:43Speaker 2: probably could be more volatile, so we need to be
- 44:46Speaker 2: careful but more risk, but you've got more time. Kids
- 44:50Speaker 2: have time on their side to ride out these waves
- 44:52Speaker 2: in the market. Yeah, so like that's kind of a win.
- 44:55Speaker 2: And if the distribution yield, just to give you some numbers,
- 44:58Speaker 2: is around one to one zero point five percent, I'd
- 45:02Speaker 2: say that's generally low. Gotcha. Those are often like global
- 45:06Speaker 2: or US ETFs as they usually like to like those
- 45:09Speaker 2: companies usually like to reinvest the profit of the company
- 45:13Speaker 2: back into their growth rather than giving them to shareholders.
- 45:16Speaker 4: Sure.
- 45:17Speaker 2: Sure, so you're probably looking at newer companies as well,
- 45:19Speaker 2: whereas old tried true.
- 45:20Speaker 3: They're like, well, we.
- 45:21Speaker 2: Don't really need any more buildings, we don't need to
- 45:24Speaker 2: increase how many stuff we have, we don't need to
- 45:26Speaker 2: develop any new products, like we can just give it
- 45:29Speaker 2: to the shareholders. That's usually not their focus. Australian shares
- 45:34Speaker 2: and ETFs tend to have higher yields, so you're looking
- 45:38Speaker 2: at on average, I'd say between three and four percent.
- 45:41Speaker 2: Because Australian companies they like to pay out to their shareholders.
- 45:44Speaker 2: I love to give your dividence.
- 45:46Speaker 3: Why is that the case? Why do they have what
- 45:49Speaker 3: are Australian chairs of a higher yield?
- 45:51Speaker 2: Oh we're just so generous as a nation. No, that's
- 45:54Speaker 2: not necessarily true. It has to do with how our
- 45:56Speaker 2: tax system is set up in comparison to how international
- 45:59Speaker 2: tax is stems are set up. And companies are usually
- 46:03Speaker 2: incentivized to pay out or distribute dividends to investors. And
- 46:07Speaker 2: we've talked about it before, but here in Australia we
- 46:10Speaker 2: have something called franking credits and usually their most effective
- 46:13Speaker 2: inside the uernuation environment. But when an Australian company earns
- 46:17Speaker 2: a profit, it pays company tax. Any profit my business
- 46:22Speaker 2: has earned beck and any profit any ASX big big
- 46:25Speaker 2: dog companies earn, we pay thirty percent. Okay, so pay
- 46:29Speaker 2: thirty percent tax. And after that it can pay some
- 46:32Speaker 2: of those profits out to shareholders as dividends to stop
- 46:37Speaker 2: that money then being taxed twice, because like if I've
- 46:39Speaker 2: paid the tax as a business owner and then I
- 46:41Speaker 2: distribute it to a shareholder and it's already had tax
- 46:44Speaker 2: paid on it. The company attaches and I like to
- 46:47Speaker 2: call it an IOU. It's like a little flag on
- 46:49Speaker 2: the money when it comes through to you get your
- 46:51Speaker 2: IOU thing and it says, hey, this is a franking credit,
- 46:55Speaker 2: and that's the little post it note that's sitting on
- 46:57Speaker 2: your money to let the ato no tax has already
- 47:00Speaker 2: been paid on this. So when you get it and
- 47:03Speaker 2: you submit it to the ater and go, hey, cool,
- 47:05Speaker 2: so I got this dividend, but thirty percent of the
- 47:06Speaker 2: tax has already been paid on it, you actually get
- 47:08Speaker 2: a tax credit as a shareholder showing that the tax
- 47:12Speaker 2: has already been paid at a company level. So if
- 47:14Speaker 2: your tax rate is thirty percent or lower, you don't
- 47:17Speaker 2: actually have to pay any more tax on the They're
- 47:19Speaker 2: like that all comes out in the wash, no worries back.
- 47:21Speaker 2: You earn thirty percent tax and that company that you
- 47:24Speaker 2: owned also paid thirty percent tax. But if your tax
- 47:27Speaker 2: rate is higher, you just pay the difference. So for
- 47:30Speaker 2: most of us, given most of us in the shees
- 47:32Speaker 2: on the money community are on either a thirty percent
- 47:35Speaker 2: or a thirty seven percent tax rate, that's a good
- 47:37Speaker 2: deal because even if you're on thirty percent, you end
- 47:39Speaker 2: up only paying seven percent tax. That's pretty good, right,
- 47:42Speaker 2: So those like little franking credits, it sounds dumb, like
- 47:44Speaker 2: why don't you just call it an IOU tax? Anyway,
- 47:49Speaker 2: that's what makes sense in my head. Yeah, franking credit complicated,
- 47:52Speaker 2: it's simple. Yeah, totally mean. Like if I said to
- 47:54Speaker 2: somebody who'd never heard of it, franking credit, you'd be like,
- 47:56Speaker 2: who's frank?
- 47:57Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't even know what to stard.
- 47:59Speaker 2: I owe him credit.
- 48:00Speaker 3: Ye.
- 48:01Speaker 2: But with the higher tax rates for kids, going back
- 48:04Speaker 2: to this, even if your dividends are franked, if your
- 48:07Speaker 2: tax rate is sixty six percent, you actually still have
- 48:09Speaker 2: to pay the difference of thirty six percent. It's still
- 48:12Speaker 2: not the end of the world. But we need to
- 48:13Speaker 2: be educated. Yes, And because the system is relatively new
- 48:17Speaker 2: in Australia, like literally, in comparison to most countries, we
- 48:22Speaker 2: are basically just over two hundred years old. Remember there's
- 48:25Speaker 2: a whole conversation in that we're not two hundred years old.
- 48:28Speaker 2: We are thousands and thousands of years old. But colonization
- 48:31Speaker 2: happened two hundred years ago, right. Australia encourages investors to
- 48:36Speaker 2: really focus on homegrown companies and yields often higher here. Yeah,
- 48:40Speaker 2: because we are our newer economy, got you, got you
- 48:44Speaker 2: comganization crazy, I mean, let's not even you know how
- 48:48Speaker 2: I feel about that.
- 48:50Speaker 4: I know, I know.
- 48:51Speaker 2: Okay, So a tax.
- 48:53Speaker 3: System basically rewards assie investors. Yeah, we're rewarded for sticking local.
- 48:59Speaker 3: I see O God, they love it, they love it.
- 49:02Speaker 3: What happens when we look at something like a US ETF.
- 49:06Speaker 2: Okay, so if we look at I guess one of
- 49:08Speaker 2: the most popular ETFs IVV, that's I shares core s
- 49:13Speaker 2: and P five hundred ETF, you can buy it on
- 49:15Speaker 2: the ASX. So you can go and buy it as
- 49:17Speaker 2: an Australian investor and it gives you international exposure. You
- 49:19Speaker 2: don't have to do anything complicated. You can literally just
- 49:21Speaker 2: buy it on your shares thes app. I'm not saying
- 49:23Speaker 2: you should invest in this, just to be very clear,
- 49:26Speaker 2: just because I talk about a share, I am sharing it.
- 49:28Speaker 2: And I have picked this investment as an example just
- 49:31Speaker 2: because it's popular. Yeah, So you do your research, you
- 49:35Speaker 2: do everything. But I've picked it because it is literally
- 49:37Speaker 2: one of the most popular international ETFs, and I feel
- 49:41Speaker 2: like I have to caveat this past performance is not
- 49:44Speaker 2: a reliable predictory future performance back. But for the purposes
- 49:47Speaker 2: of this I am using the averages of this fund
- 49:49Speaker 2: over the last twenty years. Okay, anyway, that was a mouthful.
- 49:52Speaker 2: The average growth of IVV is about nine percent over
- 49:58Speaker 2: the last twenty years, and that includes capital growth and
- 50:01Speaker 2: some dividends that have been reinvested. If you look at
- 50:05Speaker 2: their stats sheet, which if you just google the ETF,
- 50:08Speaker 2: it'll be like one of the first links that you
- 50:10Speaker 2: can click, the average yield is one point two percent,
- 50:14Speaker 2: which includes dividends and any other income it generates. And
- 50:17Speaker 2: if we go back to what I said before, I
- 50:19Speaker 2: think that's low. So if we started investing for a
- 50:23Speaker 2: kid one hundred bucks when they're born and then invest
- 50:26Speaker 2: one hundred dollars a month until their eighteenth birthday, I'm
- 50:28Speaker 2: not saying you have to do that. That's just the
- 50:29Speaker 2: example I've decided to use. If we just use this
- 50:32Speaker 2: as a really solid example, and we use that growth
- 50:35Speaker 2: and that yield average and pay tax out of the
- 50:38Speaker 2: dividends and reinvest the rest, the total that would have
- 50:42Speaker 2: been invested over that period of time is twenty one thousand,
- 50:45Speaker 2: six hundred dollars. The portfolio though, over that period of
- 50:49Speaker 2: time would be worth fifty one thousand, six hundred and
- 50:53Speaker 2: fifty four dollars, okay, which is a total growth of
- 50:57Speaker 2: thirty thousand and fifty four dollars. And you might but like,
- 51:00Speaker 2: we're talking about tax and you you said, it's really
- 51:02Speaker 2: high tax rate. So the yield for this example that
- 51:05Speaker 2: I've just made up, backed by the money Smart Compound
- 51:09Speaker 2: interest calculator and the ATO resources that are available free
- 51:12Speaker 2: for you to use, it doesn't actually hit over the
- 51:15Speaker 2: four hundred and sixteen dollars tax free threshold until they're
- 51:18Speaker 2: fifteen years old. Okay. Sorry, that's fifteen years in the
- 51:22Speaker 2: market where you haven't gone over. We're not doing the
- 51:25Speaker 2: sixty six percent. And even then, once they hit fifteen,
- 51:29Speaker 2: it's only four hundred and thirty four dollars for that
- 51:33Speaker 2: first year, yep, which means your child when they turn
- 51:37Speaker 2: fifteen is only paying tax on eighteen dollars. Oh tuo okay,
- 51:41Speaker 2: And sixty six percent of eighteen dollars is eleven dollars
- 51:44Speaker 2: and ninety three cents. Ah ah ah. That sixty six
- 51:48Speaker 2: percent tax rate scares away lots of parents. And I've
- 51:50Speaker 2: just told you for the first fifteen years, yeah, you
- 51:54Speaker 2: don't meet the threshold. Yeah, you know, after that you
- 51:57Speaker 2: pay eleven dollars a ninety three cent crazy. So then
- 52:01Speaker 2: if we extrapolate that out, because obviously year on year
- 52:04Speaker 2: your portfolio is now worth more, you're going to be
- 52:06Speaker 2: paying tax every year after the age of fifteen. Ah
- 52:09Speaker 2: huh until they turn eighteen, which is where that sixty
- 52:12Speaker 2: six percent tax rate will drop off and it will
- 52:14Speaker 2: go to their normal tax rate. They pay on that
- 52:17Speaker 2: portfolio a total amount of tax of two hundred and
- 52:20Speaker 2: seventy seven dollars. Okay, not bad, not bad, not bad. Oh,
- 52:22Speaker 2: that's actually a really good deal from my perspective. So
- 52:25Speaker 2: a two hundred and seventy seven dollars tax bill on
- 52:29Speaker 2: thirty thousand dollars of returns back, what do you think
- 52:33Speaker 2: about that? That's pretty good. I've put together this example
- 52:36Speaker 2: because so many parents are like, oh my god, I
- 52:38Speaker 2: wouldn't never invest for my kids because that sixty six
- 52:41Speaker 2: percent tax rate is astronomical and like it's not worth it.
- 52:45Speaker 2: But you need to do the maths, Like sixty six
- 52:48Speaker 2: percent sounds honestly terrifying. I don't like that at all either. Yeah,
- 52:53Speaker 2: but you're paying sixty six percent on the money that
- 52:55Speaker 2: your money made. Yeah, and once your money's making more
- 52:58Speaker 2: than four hundred and sixteen dollar over that period of time, sorry,
- 53:02Speaker 2: most of us aren't even going to be able to
- 53:04Speaker 2: invest for our kids one hundred dollars a month. And
- 53:06Speaker 2: that's what we used as to the example.
- 53:08Speaker 3: Let's be real, so they might not even happen in
- 53:10Speaker 3: their first eighteen years of life exactly. So I guess
- 53:13Speaker 3: like with the right strategy, you can minimize the tax
- 53:15Speaker 3: when you're investing in your child's day.
- 53:17Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, And that's what I'm trying to illustrate with
- 53:20Speaker 2: a really good example. And then you can transfer the
- 53:22Speaker 2: shares into their name, like you can basically remove yourself
- 53:25Speaker 2: as to trustee because they were always the legal guardian
- 53:28Speaker 2: or they were always the legal owner of that account
- 53:30Speaker 2: without triggering a CGT event, which I would say is
- 53:33Speaker 2: a win as well. Yeah, like money win because like
- 53:36Speaker 2: we've minimized tax, but then money whin there's no CGT
- 53:38Speaker 2: event when it becomes your kids. And I would say
- 53:42Speaker 2: the one thing here that we need to remember is
- 53:44Speaker 2: that investing for kids is not about making the millionaires. Yeah,
- 53:47Speaker 2: that would be very cool and like, if you set
- 53:49Speaker 2: them up with the right financial literacy, they can probably
- 53:52Speaker 2: make themselves millionaires. Really, and like, I don't know, there's
- 53:55Speaker 2: probably a whole conversation in another podcast in this, but like,
- 53:59Speaker 2: I also don't want want to serve money to my
- 54:01Speaker 2: children on a silver platter and be like, oh, you
- 54:04Speaker 2: didn't work for this, nor worries like I want them
- 54:07Speaker 2: to work for this. I want them to have that
- 54:09Speaker 2: work ethic anyway. For me, it's about giving them a
- 54:12Speaker 2: head start that you probably didn't get, or giving them
- 54:16Speaker 2: the headstart that you believe they deserve in both money
- 54:19Speaker 2: and financial literacy. And that to me is so important
- 54:24Speaker 2: because the biggest things kids have on their side is time.
- 54:27Speaker 2: So true. So I think it's a really good place
- 54:30Speaker 2: to leave it because I'm ready to go on with
- 54:32Speaker 2: another example.
- 54:33Speaker 3: So okay, well before that happens, if you want to
- 54:36Speaker 3: know more about Cheersy's new kids investing account, we'll put
- 54:39Speaker 3: it in the show notes.
- 54:40Speaker 2: Absolutely honestly, I'm a fan, and as much as I've
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- 55:37Speaker 2: Sheirper Pty Ltd.
- 55:39Speaker 5: ABN three two one six four nine two seven seven
- 55:43Speaker 5: zero eight AFSL four five one two eight nine