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Business owners are asking the same questions heading into 2026: Are we at the bottom? Is it safe to invest yet? When will things turn around? After years of treading water, just trying to stay afloat, the frustration of not knowing when to make a move is wearing thin. Here’s what Bruce thinks is happening. […]

The red velvet suit was stifling in the summer heat, but Bruce Sheppard had stopped noticing… One hundred and fifty children will do that to a man. Kids with their sticky fingers and enormous eyes, their whispered wishes and gap-toothed grins, their parents hovering with phones raised like the paparazzi at a film premiere. The […]

The June 2024 wealth report is out, revealing both predictable patterns and surprising trends. We’ve endured three tough years, household debt is rising, our love affair with property continues, and wealth compounds over time. But dig deeper and you’ll find unexpected revelations about education returns, capital flight, intergenerational wealth transfers and demographic shifts that should […]

We’re a year out from a general election and heading into local body elections as a dry run for next year. None of this bodes well. A note from the team: The views shared in this piece are the personal opinions of Bruce Sheppard and don’t necessarily reflect the position of others within Gilligan Sheppard. […]

There’s a revolution happening in the job market right now. Not the usual economic cycle bullshit, but something fundamental. The core requirement for staying relevant isn’t education or training anymore. It’s creativity, lateral thinking, and imagination, because now we have to outsmart Artificial Intelligence (AI). And to use AI effectively, you have to be really […]