Budgeting & Saving Money - October 2nd How to Maximise Your KiwiSaver If you want to maximise your KiwiSaver, you can't just set it and forget it. You need to take an active role in your fund and your contributions. Thanks to providers' apps and websites, it's …
Budgeting & Saving Money - August 24th 15 Finance Goals For Your 30s Your 30s are full of common rites of passage, think career changes, getting married, starting a family and buying a home. The financial decisions involved are often complex and costly. So it's important to develop …
Budgeting & Saving Money - June 19th Coronavirus: What Help Is Available If I’ve Been Made Redundant? Things are returning to normal in New Zealand with our move to Alert Level 1. On June 9, 2020, we were granted the freedom to hug and move as we please for the first time …
Budgeting & Saving Money - April 2nd COVID-19 and Your Finances: 10 Things to do While You’re at Home There’s no doubt COVID-19 has hit plenty of Kiwi families hard. Some have lost their jobs, been made redundant or are unsure about the stability of their jobs in the near future. Most of us …
Budgeting & Saving Money - March 27th Opinion: A Guide to Surviving Life in Lockdown I’m writing this today from home, inside the isolation bubble with my family. I know all Kiwis will pull together over the next four weeks, and together we will beat COVID-19. We are sending our …
Budgeting & Saving Money - March 26th 15 Tips to Cut Food Waste and Save Money New Zealanders throw away 157,389 tonnes of food a year, according to Love Food Hate Waste NZ. That’s equivalent to 271 jumbo jets of food that need to go somewhere to rot, instead of being …
Budgeting & Saving Money - December 20th Top 10 Stories of 2019 As we bid farewell to 2019 and welcome in a new year and decade, this holiday season is a chance to reflect not only on the opportunities that await in 2020, but to look back …
Banking & Insurance - December 18th Government announces new deposit insurance regulations Yesterday, as part of Phase 2 of the review of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand Act, Finance Minister Grant Robertson announced a new deposit insurance scheme. One of a raft of new regulations designed …
Budgeting & Saving Money - February 27th KiwiSaver benefits: Don’t miss out, sign up today Co-author: Michelle Norton Canstar breaks down the reasons why grabbing a KiwiSaver opt in form should be the top of your to-do list, so you can reap the benefits of KiwiSaver. Benefits of KiwiSaver – let us …
Budgeting & Saving Money - October 13th Kiwis prove financial fitness in world survey The OECD/INFE International Survey of Financial Literacy Competencies pools nearly 52,000 people across 30 countries (17 of them OECD), including 1300 New Zealanders between the ages of 18 and 79. While the French are the overall …
