The continued strength in the Australian and International share markets during the past month resulted in improved superannuation and geared share portfolio valuations as at the end of April. Our house price valuation is unchanged as the suburb average sales data for our area had not been updated this month, but as the Sydney Index data from CoreLogic only showed a small fall in average sales prices for homes during April this should not have much impact on the total NW estimate. Overall my NW increased by $47,874 (or 2.11%) during April, not quite reaching a new 'peak NW' value.
I'm currently planning on remaining in my current job (unless I get retrenched - which is always a possibility in the modern workplace) while I get my Financial Planning business up and running, and try to achieve profitability while running it part-time in the evenings and weekends for the next 2-3 years (while finishing of the Master of Financial Planning degree and then possibly the CFP certification and start on a PhD in Financial Planning). Depending on how things look in 3-4 years time, I might either keep running the FP business part-time while keeping my full-time salaried job (until I reach 65 or so), or else see if I can reduce my salaried job to 4 days/week and increase the amount of time devoted to my own 'business'. I might also need to switch to 4 days/week if I commence PhD research part-time after completing the Master of FP degree, as I had found it quite difficult to spend enough time on my astrophysics research degree while also working full-time (one of the reasons I ended up 'dropping out' of my Master/PhD enrolment).
If the FP business is going well I'll probably think about 'retiring' from my salaried job when I around 65 and then continue to run my FP business for a while. How long I do that for will depend on a) if I still want to work (at least part-time) until 70+, b) if the business is profitable (and how profitable), and, most importantly, c) if I'm still healthy enough. One of my great-great-Aunts lived past 100, my father's parents both lived until almost 95, and my parents are both reasonably fit and active as they approach 90, so I have a realistic expectation of being able to continue working past 65. I do need to loose quite a lot of weight and do more exercise though! If the FP business is a going concern, I can probably sell it for around 2-2.5x annual revenues when/if I decide to retire. That might provide an extra 'nest egg' for my retirement, if I can get the business up and running ;)
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