Acumen, interesting word really isn’t it? Originally the Latin meant to sharpen a needle. The dictionary defines the word acumen as “Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight”.
To achieve financial freedom requires “acumen”… action, accuracy, sound judgment, experience and insight. This is what we bring to your own personal financial situation and lifestyle goals. Simply because as a company we’ve seen it all and tried most of it over the years.
We’ve also learnt that there are certain fundamentals that you can’t get around if you ever want to achieve financial freedom. But for some reason people are so afraid of sorting out their financial lives that they often never get to “live the life of their dreams”. In fact many of us never get to live at all… we just survive from week to week for our entire lives.
Acumen is committed to providing you with the absolute best financial guidance and wealth creation help available in keeping with the definition of our name. Some of the reasons for using us are that we:
- Are credible
- Are qualified
- Have years of experience
- Don’t try to sell you anything
- Are independent
- Have walked the talk ourselves
- Will tell it to you straight
- Have a holistic approach
- Offer practical solutions that we have seen work many times
What we don’t offer is magic fairy dust or a crystal ball to solve all your problems overnight. It’s going to take a little bit of time and effort on your part. However the time and effort is minimised by getting the right guidance at the right time so you’re able to take the easiest and most efficient path.
Lisa Dudson
BBS, CFP, ASM, GradDipBis (Personal Financial Planning), GradDipBis (PR), DipMgmt
Lisa began investing when she was just 16 years old and has been financially independent for over a decade. She is a bestselling author in New Zealand who has appeared on TV, radio and in several magazines and newspapers. Lisa has regularly written for the NZ Herald, Sunday Star Times, YahooXtra, Women’s Day and the NZ Property Magazine.
Lisa is a respected and sought-after speaker who has worked with thousands of people from very diverse backgrounds and financial situations to assist them in building sustainable, long term financial and lifestyle wealth. As well as working with the well-known Money Man TV show providing pragmatic financial advice both on and off screen, she has also appeared on NZ Business, Breakfast, Good Morning, 60 Minutes, House Calls, TV3 News and Campbell Live and in 2009 regularly appeared on Sunrise. Read more…
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Sarah van der Spuy
Sarah has always had a passion for business and finance. Her experience ranges from personal money management to the insurance industry to recently founding and running a very successful and rapidly growing business networking company for tradesmen and service providers.
Sarah understood the importance of good money management from an early age and was always eager to listen to the monetary issues of family and friends. This ignited her passion to study Finance and educate others on how to overcome the fear of money and take control of their financial position. Money management skills are not always taught or spoken about and that is why Sarah is dedicated to working with her clients to help them assess their current financial position and learn how to effectively manage their money. Read more…
