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| Stay in charge of your Christmas spending |
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10 Dec 2010: Christmas is fast approaching, but if you haven’t started your Christmas shopping, there’s no need to panic. A few simple strategies can help you get through Christmas with your wallet and your stress levels intact.
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| Do we Really Need More Stuff than Americans? |
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4 Dec 2010: Something to ponder as Christmas gift giving approaches: New Zealanders apparently think they need more stuff than the people we often regard as most materialistic – Americans. What’s more, older and male New Zealanders seem to be more into “things” than young people and females.... more
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| Confidence Can Be A Killer |
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27 Nov 2010: Who has ever invested money with a finance company, or knows someone who has? This is a silly question, since the finance company disaster of recent years probably has touched almost everyone in New Zealand.... more
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| How to Get More Out of Kiwisaver |
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20 Nov 2010: About 40 per cent of people in KiwiSaver don’t know what kind of fund – conservative, balanced or growth – their money is invested in. Many of those won’t be in the best fund for them.... more
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| Non-Kiwisavers’ Reasons Don’t Stand Up To Scrutiny |
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6 Nov 2010: Many New Zealanders who haven’t joined KiwiSavers are missing out on their fair share of the government booty because they misunderstand how it all works. Meanwhile, others in the scheme are not getting as much as they could out of it.... more
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| A New Financial Disaster? |
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30 Oct 2010: The US mortgage market and related foreclosure activity may be about to grind to a halt. The outcome could be a new financial disaster.... more
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| Are we Bad Savers, or was it a Bad Survey? |
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25 Sep 2010: A recent report on New Zealanders’ savings habits annoyed me – and not because it starts by saying that the Savings Working Group, of which I’m a member, “is likely to face a tough challenge”. What got my goat was its misleading conclusion.... more
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