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Regulating Financial Advice in New Zealand

Regulating the Financial Advice Industry, with better advice comes increased costs.

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Why Extreme Savings Sucks

Why are we in extreme savings mode? Lots of events are coming up in my life the two which are becoming savings hogs are, our wedding and our continued struggle to raise a deposit for a house. Our income is lumpy so every time we look at our savings balance it looks as though it hasn’t [...]

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Your first real paycheck, what do you do?

Congratulations you lasted your first month at you first real job, how does it feel? All that study and work must be paying off now!! So what do you do with your first decent chunk of change? Blow it all at the bar like you did at University? Or are you feeling like you should act [...]

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Emergency Fund: The end of the beginning

Part 2 of creating your emergency fund. What to do after you have built up an emergency fund.

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Emergency Fund

Looking for a start on your way to financial success? The first stepping stone is the creation of an emergency fund. The idea is that the emergency fund will allow you to cover financial shocks from a cash fund rather than relying on debt.

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