KiwiSaver default member? Someone’s deciding your future for you
Is your KiwiSaver fund one of the nine Default funds? If you are a Default member, people who you don’t even know exist, is deciding your financial future now. Also, you are in the...
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Loyalty comes at a price – avoid international money transfer rip-offs
The ACCC report found that individual consumers sending US dollars and British pounds in 2017 and 2018 could have collectively saved around $150 million. All they had to do was use the lowest-priced alternative suppliers instead of the big four banks.
Securing a financially free future
An often sought after financial goal is to achieve financial freedom. Who would not want to be wealthy enough to have a financially secure future? Yet, financial freedom does not come around by accident....
Top 3 things to know before you buy car insurance
It’s super simple to compare and shop around for car insurance. But before you jump into it, there are three items you want to consider.
To fix your mortgage rate, or not, that’s the question
Home loan mortgage rates are at an historic low. Does that mean that you should be locking in these rates now?
Falling interest rates impacting on your travel money?
You get more bang for your buck when you buy more foreign currency for the same amount of home currency. How do you best deal with the uncertainty?
KiwiSaver funds still licking their wounds
About 80% of all KiwiSaver funds suffered losses ranging from as little as 0.1% to some as high as 20%, in the last three months of 2018. Over half of those funds are yet...
Coping with lower term deposit rates
Over the past week, term deposit rates have fallen by as much as 0.45% over the 4 to 5 year period. Find out what impact that has on your investment portfolio going forward
New savings rules comes with big bucks attached
From 1 April 2019 you can choose KiwiSaver contribution rates of 3%, 4%, 6%, 8% or 10% of your salary. Make the most of it!