This week’s episode of You Have My Interest is a little different. Evelyn takes you behind the scenes of her recent trip to Africa, where she visited two life-changing projects supported by Everlend’s fundraising efforts from International Women’s Day, in partnership with Just Peoples. She shares powerful stories of the women she met, and how financial education and skills training through programs like Asembo Skills for Hope are creating generational change in communities experiencing poverty.Evelyn also reflects on her biggest mindset shift from this trip around funding – funding-the importance of long-term partnerships and creating sustainable impact rather than one-off donations, and the role of supporting program and organisational goals as a whole.
In this week's episode of You Have My Interest, we delve into a recent finance file where we assisted a family unit – parents and their daughter – in purchasing a new home off the plan. In this unique scenario, the daughter (a lawyer with her own investment property) teamed up with her parents (both working, with existing properties and business liabilities) to buy together.We unpack how a lender’s mortgage insurance waiver allowed them to purchase at a 90% loan-to-value ratio without paying LMI, saving them thousands upfront. You’ll hear about the challenges they faced navigating existing debts and business guarantees, and how working with a broker helped them find a solution their bank couldn’t provide – securing fast approval, keeping repayments manageable, and achieving an outcome that worked for everyone involved.
