Gold Coast Financial Planning That Reflects How You Actually Live Here
The Gold Coast isn’t just one market, it’s a dozen. A young family in Pacific Pines has a very different set of financial questions than a business owner in Broadbeach or a retiree in Palm Beach. Financial advice that treats ‘the Gold Coast’ as a single audience tends to miss what makes this region interesting to plan for in the first place.
We’ve worked with Gold Coast clients across the whole spectrum: property investors building portfolios across Robina, high-income earners in Mermaid Beach, tradies and small business owners around Nerang and Ashmore, and retirees deciding between selling or holding property here for the long term. That range shapes how we advise. The costs of a coastal lifestyle are real, such as insurance on a waterfront property, the timing of a purchase in a rising market, plus more. Not partnering with a local Gold Coast financial advisor usually misses the mark in taking into account these coastal costs.
MWS holds a 4.9 Google rating across 300+ reviews, we’re licensed under GPS Wealth Ltd (AFSL 254544), and we’ve won GPS Wealth Practice of the Year. Awards matter less than outcomes, but both track the same thing: advice that works for the client sitting in the room, not the industry average.
What sets our Gold Coast team apart most, though, is our approach: genuinely holistic. We don’t look at your super without considering your investment strategy, and we don’t advise on your property without looking at how it connects to your tax position and your retirement timeline. My Wealth Solutions was built in Brisbane, and South East Queensland has been our home market for over a decade, so the Gold Coast’s financial market is familiar territory.
Meet Your Gold Coast Financial Advice Team
Our Gold Coast team is led by Senior Financial Adviser Colby Atkinson and supported by advisers, associates, and client services staff across financial planning, wealth management, property investment, superannuation, and insurance. Every plan we build is delivered through the CAREphilosophy®, our proprietary investment framework designed to manage both portfolio risk and investor behaviour over the long term. Read more about our investment philosophy →
How We Work With You on the Gold Coast
Find Our Gold Coast Office
We deliver Gold Coast appointments from the McLauchlan Wealth Offices at 80–82 Upton Street, Bundall QLD 4217.
Call our office on 07 5230 4198.
Our Gold Coast office is open 8:30am to 5pm, Monday to Friday. You’ll need to make an appointment to see an adviser, and we also offer after-hours appointments for clients who can’t make it in during business hours.
Street parking is generally freely available in the surrounding streets around Upton Street. Please allow a few extra minutes if you’re driving in during a busy period.
Financial Planning Services for Gold Coast Clients
Where most engagements start. We look at your super, investments, property, tax, debt, and insurance as one connected plan rather than a stack of separate decisions.
Diversified investment strategies, share portfolios, and debt recycling built around your timeline and risk tolerance. Our debt recycling guide is a useful starting read.
Ongoing portfolio management and strategic oversight for clients with established wealth, delivered through our proprietary CAREphilosophy® investment framework and reviewed by our Investment Committee.
Fund selection, contribution strategy, consolidation, and integrating super properly with the rest of your long-term retirement plan.
Honest assessment of whether a self-managed super fund is right for you, then setup, strategy, and ongoing management if it is. If it isn’t, we’ll tell you, our is an SMSF worth it? guide walks through the trade-offs.
Transition-to-retirement strategies, income drawdown planning, Centrelink integration, and making sure the retirement you’ve worked toward actually holds. See our step-by-step retirement planning guide.
Financial strategy for property investors which includes loan structuring, tax position, and how each purchase fits into the rest of your plan. We don’t source properties or act as buyer’s agents; we’re the strategy layer behind the decision. If you’re weighing up your first, start with our guide to buying an investment property.
Year-round tax planning, EOFY strategies, and structuring for high-income earners, investors, and business owners.
Practical cash flow management for households where the income is strong but the surplus isn’t landing where it should. Often the fastest place to unlock progress toward the rest of your goals.
Life, TPD, income protection, and trauma cover matched to your actual risks. Led by our Head of Insurance, Chloe Foster, with over 20 years in the industry.
Business planning, Virtual CFO support, complex tax structures, SMSF administration, and family-business advisory delivered through our sister entity, My Wealth Private. Well suited to founders, family businesses, and high-income earners with more moving parts than a standard tax return.
Who We Work With on the Gold Coast
We work with Gold Coast clients across every stage of life and every level of wealth.
Frequently asked questions
The Gold Coast has a wider mix of client situations than most cities its size, retirees who’ve moved up from Sydney or Melbourne, tradies and small business owners with strong income but volatile cash flow, property investors with holdings across several suburbs and states, and young families balancing school fees with a mortgage. Financial planning here needs to accommodate that range. Where we spend the most time is usually property strategy (Gold Coast portfolios are often more concentrated than they should be), insurance for coastal risk, and structuring a retirement that keeps the lifestyle you moved here for. It’s less about applying a template and more about knowing which questions to ask first.
Yes, property strategy is one of the most common reasons clients reach out to our Bundall office. That includes buying, structuring finance, debt recycling, deciding whether to hold, refinance, or sell, and integrating a property portfolio with super, tax, and retirement planning. We don’t source properties or act as buyer’s agents. Our job is the financial strategy sitting behind the decision, and how it connects to everything else you’re building. If you’re weighing up your first investment property, our step-by-step guide is a good place to start before your discovery session.
From your first discovery session to receiving your Statement of Advice, expect roughly four to six weeks. It can run longer if your situation is complex (multiple properties, an SMSF, business interests) or if we’re waiting on documents from super funds or existing platforms. The 90-minute discovery is free. After that, if you decide to move forward, we quote the Commitment Fee before any paid work begins, so there are no surprises on cost or timing. See our full fee breakdown for a detailed view of how we’re paid.
No, we work with Gold Coast clients from Coolangatta through to Coomera and into the hinterland, and we meet clients at our Bundall office, online via video, or a combination of both. Many of our long-standing clients don’t come into the office more than once or twice a year. What matters most is that the adviser understands your situation and stays close to it over time.