About Alex Isaias

Alex brings more than 15 years of experience providing specialist advice, consulting, and coaching across corporate superannuation, group insurance, employee share schemes, financial wellness programs, and complex financial planning. He has significant expertise managing competitive tenders for corporate superannuation and group insurance, ensuring our corporate clients can confidently offer employee benefits that are highly valued by their teams. Alex also chairs our Investment Committee, overseeing Harvest’s strategic portfolio construction and investment research processes.

Change is coming – are you ready?

The biggest changes to superannuation in over 10 years start coming into effect from 1 July 2017. As we approach the end of the financial year, you should take a moment to go through the following updates to ensure you’re ready for the coming changes and to avoid getting caught out. Reduced Concessional Contributions Caps

Investment Market Update – Feb 2017

January 2017 was perhaps more remarkable for its political headlines than for excitement in investment markets. Newly elected U.S. President, Donald Trump wasted no time in beginning his reform agenda after his inauguration on January 20, almost immediately imposing immigration restrictions and withdrawing the United States from the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership. Europe Equity markets picked

2016 residential property review and outlook for 2017

Interest rate announcement - February 2017 Today the Reserve Bank of Australia met to review the official cash rate. After last cutting rates in August last year, the RBA have decided to leave rates on hold at 1.50% again this month. We expect that most lenders will leave their rates unchanged, in line with the

Home Loan Newsletter – December 2016

Interest rate announcement - December 2016 Today the Reserve Bank of Australia met to review the official cash rate. After cutting rates in August, the RBA have decided to leave rates on hold at 1.50% again this month. We expect that most lenders will leave their rates unchanged, in line with the Reserve Bank’s decision.

The ‘Trump Effect’ on markets – what to expect

Despite being consistently written off as having little or no chance of defeating his opponent, Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump won the recent US Presidential Election and will succeed Barack Obama in late January 2017 to become the 45th President of the United States. In this article, we take a look at what impact Trump’s presidency

Banks’ lending practices are changing

Interest rate announcement - November 2016 Today the Reserve Bank of Australia met to review the official cash rate. After cutting rates in August, the RBA have decided to leave rates on hold at 1.50% again this month. We expect that most lenders will leave their rates unchanged, in line with the Reserve Bank’s decision.

SMSFs and buying a property

Interest rate announcement - October 2016 Today the Reserve Bank of Australia met to review the official cash rate. After cutting rates in August, the RBA have decided to leave rates on hold at 1.50% this month. We expect that most lenders will leave their rates unchanged, in line with the Reserve Bank’s decision.