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Family Trusts May No Longer Be Worth It

Family Trusts May No Longer Be Worth It

Trust laws have changed, and the new 39% trust tax bracket might make decisions surrounding trusts a lot harder, especially for ‘mum and dad’ trustees, settlors, and beneficiaries.
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PIE Funds

PIE Funds

Pay less investment tax by investing in a managed investment called a PIE fund
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The Tax on Inflation

The Tax on Inflation

There's even a hidden tax on inflation! Here's the tax you probably didn't even think of.
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New higher tax rate for top earners

New higher tax rate for top earners

Will you pay NZ’s new top income tax rate?
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Teach yourself how to invest

Teach yourself how to invest

9 steps to become a self-taught investor
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How Do We Better Financially Empower Ourselves?

How Do We Better Financially Empower Ourselves?

NZ ranks sixth worldwide for per capita gambling losses. How do we turn it around?
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One New Zealand City on the World’s Best Cities Ranking

One New Zealand City on the World’s Best Cities Ranking

Auckland and Wellington were the toast of the world last year, though that’s all changed.
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ACC Versus Income Protection Insurance

ACC Versus Income Protection Insurance

Why get income protection insurance when New Zealand has ACC?
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NZ House Prices to Rise

NZ House Prices to Rise

New Zealand’s favourite investment, residential property, is about to resume its upward price trajectory
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What Is Market Timing?

What Is Market Timing?

Timing investment markets is everybody’s dream.
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Winning with Bonus Bonds

Winning with Bonus Bonds

What were the odds and what next? – Bonus Bonds are being wound up
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Have a Long and Awesome Life

Have a Long and Awesome Life

Live a long, happy, and healthy life - according to research
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New Zealand’s Decline in Financial Literacy

New Zealand’s Decline in Financial Literacy

Missing millions: how low financial literacy could impact your financial wellbeing, retirement and more
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ESG: Is the Bubble About to Burst?

ESG: Is the Bubble About to Burst?

The hype, the backlash, and the future of sustainable investing
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The Election and Your Finances

The Election and Your Finances

The NZ election and what it means for your finances
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Auckland Floods Financial Impacts

Auckland Floods Financial Impacts

The major banks have stepped up to assist Auckland 2023 floods victims.
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Crypto in the Firing Line

Crypto in the Firing Line

Regulatory crackdowns followed by moves from ‘main street’
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15 Books With the Power to Change Your Life

15 Books With the Power to Change Your Life

The life-changing book list
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The Newfound Assetocracy

The Newfound Assetocracy

How the Housing Boom Created a New Class of New Zealand Millionaires
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Wealth Preserving Tips for Buying a Car

Wealth Preserving Tips for Buying a Car

6 tips to save when you next buy a car.
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How to Make Six Figures

How to Make Six Figures

3 ways to make a six-figure income
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Pay Yourself First

Pay Yourself First

The simplest way to budget
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The Best Spare Items to Sell from Home

The Best Spare Items to Sell from Home

The 11 best items to sell, and how and where to sell them
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Why Covid hasn’t crushed the NZ housing market

Why Covid hasn’t crushed the NZ housing market

7 reasons why the NZ housing market is defying Covid
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Thinking About Inflation Leads to Inflation

Thinking About Inflation Leads to Inflation

When perception leads to economic reality
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The Middle Class Are Getting Smashed

The Middle Class Are Getting Smashed

NZ's middle class are being financially squeezed, here's how and why, and what you can do about it.
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Why is the share market at an all-time high?

Why is the share market at an all-time high?

6 reasons why, and can it go higher?
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Financial Lessons You Wish You Knew as a Teenager

Financial Lessons You Wish You Knew as a Teenager

Imagine if what we know now about finances, we knew back in our teen years – how much better off would we all be?
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NZ Rental Housing Tax Changes

NZ Rental Housing Tax Changes

Will housing market tax changes impact you?
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The Power of Split-Banking

The Power of Split-Banking

Splitting your banking needs can pay off, here’s how
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Financial Woes Among Younger Investors Mean Delayed Milestones

Financial Woes Among Younger Investors Mean Delayed Milestones

Delayed milestones for young Kiwi’s, but is it all bad news?
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One-third of Millennials are living with parents

One-third of Millennials are living with parents

As the father of three Millennials (identical twin girls aged 23 and a son aged 26), I pay a great deal of attention to articles and studies on this largest generation – especially since our kids keep coming home and thinking that what is in our fridge should rightfully be theirs. Given the sheer size of this generation, and its vast effect on the economy for decades to come, we should all be...
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Sticky Inflation Means Mortgage Rate Cuts a Way off Yet

Sticky Inflation Means Mortgage Rate Cuts a Way off Yet

NZ’s latest inflation result is in, what this means for borrowers
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Should You Get a Government Job?

Should You Get a Government Job?

Want a 24% pay rise? Get a New Zealand government job - that's how much more government employees are paid.
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Why Do Cities Become Unaffordable?

Why Do Cities Become Unaffordable?

New Zealand housing the most unaffordable nation worldwide
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Signs You Will Be Financially Successful

Signs You Will Be Financially Successful

10 signs you will reach financial freedom
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What Is a Black Swan Event?

What Is a Black Swan Event?

A share market crash is a rapid and usually unanticipated drop in prices.
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How to Get the Most from Your Car Insurance

How to Get the Most from Your Car Insurance

4 ways to get the most from your car insurance
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Will You Pay a Wealth Tax?

Will You Pay a Wealth Tax?

As talk of taxing wealthy Kiwis is on the rise, let's take a look at how this might work, and whether you might have to pay up!
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Should You Trust Finfluencers?

Should You Trust Finfluencers?

Should New Zealand online financial gurus (“finfluencers”) face jail time, like they do in Australia?
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