Financial Tips & Guides
Each week the New Zealand Herald and Newstalk ZB’s Cooking The Books podcast tackles a different money problem. Today, it’s working out what all the fuss is about bitcoin, and whether you should be getting involved. Hosted by Frances Cook.
Rachel Brown doesn’t want her KiwiSaver to contribute to climate change. “I would not be interested in investing in any new fossil fuel exploration,” Brown says.
Labour will ensure its housing policy is handled in a “careful and managed way,” new Finance Minister Grant Robertson has said in response to a question on whether he was worried about house prices and market confidence declining due to Labour’s suite of measures to Read More …
One consequence of the unexpected change in Government is that we may start to see some sorting out between the property investors and the speculators.
Luxury. No word means such different things to different people. Sofia Ambler, owner of North Shore based helicopter business Heletranz, recalls the delight with which a family of super-rich tourists did something normally considered pretty near the bottom of human endeavours
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National’s planned tax cuts are off the table but students, households with young families and low-income workers are set to get more in the pocket under the new Labour-led Government.
She took 12 years out of her career to look after their children. It is issues like these that will be considered as the Law Commission reviews the 40-year-old Property (Relationships) Act, which sets out the rules for dividing property in a break-up. It will Read More …
A hacker just stole your savings. Does the bank have to reimburse you? The answer could well be “no”. This is scary stuff for anyone with more than a few bucks in their bank accounts or a decent credit limit.
Every group of people has its rotten apples: teachers, police officers, children aged eight, Wellingtonians, people whose name starts with ‘A.’ No matter how you group them, there will always be a few bad eggs. Read More …
If you’re young, you might have a really hard time seeing the benefits of a financial advisor. Many young people are renting their homes, maybe own a cheap car that was bought used or handed down to them, and haven’t really needed to think about Read More …