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I enjoy working with clients to help meet their Less than a month afterthem Central Sydney Trains warned Maximize delays couldyour Age financial goals. I am passionate about improving expected throughout the night, Coast commuters heaved a sigh bethe Pension entitlements financial position of my clients, their families and of relief with the suspension of with both incoming and outgoing wider community by increasing their personal wealth union action on the rail network Central Coast services affected. and financial literacy. Invest within your SMSF
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And so it proved, with one CCN until July 1, trains were thrown reader chaos again on Friday, Marchplanning reporting her nephew and his I have over 15into years experience in financial wife left Gosford on the 9.30pm train working with14. clients on the Northern Beaches and on lump sum and didn’t arrive home Advice at Waverton time it was nothing to do with Central Coast. This I hold a Diploma Financial Services investment until 1.30am the following morning. such as (Financial Planning) I ambutcurrently a industrialand action, due to a studying signal inheritance One correspondent was stuck on a or downsizing Master’s in Financial the failure. Planning. I am a member of your home train at Sydney’s domestic airport for Association of As Advisers (AFA) and accredited the system struggled to recover to an hour without any information or Football registration provide specialist advice to SMSFs. from signal issues at Ashfield station affordable alternative transport mode cracks all time record on Friday morning, major delays to the Central Coast Uber and taxis plagued the entire Sydney Trains quoted over $200 for the trip. PUZZLES network, with some Central Coast PAGE 31 passengers reporting journey times of Passengers reported travel times of four hours or more from Sydney to the Central Coast Continued page 9 more than four hours.
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