Rick Latimore and Chris Keating established When Financial Solutions Newcastle in 2022, as one of the few independent financial planning offerings in the Hunter region. We believe that advisers should be independent from product manufacturers, so they are free to serve our clients and our clients alone. We are committed to independence, evidenced in three ways: We are commission-free and don’t receive incentive payments from product manufacturers and; We don’t have any ownership links or affiliations with product manufacturers; We don’t charge asset-based fees. Our advice is unbiased, we are free to recommend any product approved by two independent research houses. Our Advice Approach Care and consideration – we take the time to understand and align our advice to your values and beliefs. Confidence – help facilitate confident spending decisions Respect – It is your money, and we plan to build on your success Beyond money –success is more than just money. Flexibility – we plan to adapt to changes in your life, Collaboration – work closely with your trusted relationships. Our Investment Beliefs Transparency Quality Diversification Cost and fees matter Discipline Rick has worked in financial services for more than 15 years, and as a financial planner for almost 10 years. Chris has worked in financial services since 2008, and as a financial planner for more than 10 years. They both worked at Stateplus / Aware Super Financial Services, gaining extensive experience in retirement planning and have a deep knowledge of the complexities of government-defined benefit schemes. We support our clients with many different products, including, but not limited, to Australiansuper, Aware Super, Hesta Super, Colonial First State, Unisuper, Australian Retirement Trust, Vanguard, Macquarie Wrap, Rest, HUB24, BT, IOOF, Netwealth.

McCullough Robertson Lawyers is a leading Australian law firm with 50 partners plus staff located in our Brisbane, Sydney and Newcastle offices. For more than 85 years, many major Australian and foreign owned corporations, financial institutions, governments, private businesses and high net worth individuals have trusted our advice on their most critical challenges. We believe in building long term relationships with our extensive clientele in industries such as mining, energy and resources food and agribusiness, real estate, technology, telecommunications, health and life science and government. Clients tell us they want innovative thinking from their lawyers. To achieve this, we work with our clients to help them to respond to opportunities and to anticipate legal and commercial issues affecting their business. We anticipate impact and minimise risk, working strategically with clients to achieve both immediate outcomes and to secure the future. That's only possible through the relationships we build with our clients. Relationships that achieve real results, and real satisfaction.

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