First Home Buyers - March 31st Floating or fixed-rate loan: how to choose? Should I float or should I fix? It's a dilemma facing many New Zealanders. For the past five years Kiwis have kept hearing that interest rate rises are always just around the corner - yet …
Home Loans - March 31st How to side-step the house insurance policy traps Insurance is changing and those changes are huge. Anyone who owns a house in New Zealand needs to sit up and pay attention. The biggest change is that all the major insurers in this country will …
KiwiSaver Funds - March 31st Stomaching the risk Plenty of potential KiwiSavers are held back by their fear of making a mistake. The antidote to this is understanding their personal "risk profile" and that of their partner. Quite simply some people can stomach more …
Travel Insurance - March 31st Are we there yet? New Zealanders are an adventurous lot. According to Statistics New Zealand, Kiwis took a total of 2.17 million overseas trips in the twelve months to December 2012. Where do we go? Our top nine destinations …