NZ Herald 26 July 2025
Q&As:
– Should parents monitor older teens’ bank accounts?
– Pay down mortgage or save?
– Reader: Shares are not high-risk
– Am I a Boglehead?
– Low-fee funds winning for this family
– Can employer not do KiwiSaver?
RNZ Radio 19 June 2025
Different types of debt. Also, money worries lead to less socialising:
– Different types of debt — some bad, some good
– More on credit cards — how not to use them
– More on buy now pay later debt — how not to use it
– Mortgage holders should concentrate on other debt
Also:
– Socialising is on the decline while the cost of living rises
NZ Herald 14 June 2025
Q&As:
– Speed up student loan payments or invest?
– Pay off mortgage or invest?
– How to deal with high health insurance costs
Plus:
– Paying Off High Interest Debt
RNZ Radio 5 June 2025
Test your financial knowledge
– 7 questions to test your financial knowledge
– How to do test at your own pace, and get explanations of the answers
NZ Herald 3 May 2025
Q&As:
– Don’t get too confident about your investment skills
– A way to compare paying down mortgage vs shares
– Home loans get easier over time
– Putting “princely sums” in context
– KiwiSaver returns over a decade
– How banks lend to retired people
– Move to new provider, at same risk, any time
RNZ Radio 24 April 2025
The wisdom of our listeners!
Listeners’ best financial moves — entries in recent giveaway of Mary’s newly updated “Rich Enough? A Laid-back Guide for Every Kiwi”. We can all learn from them — or be amused by them.
– Marriage
– Debt
– Budgeting
– Investments
– Less conventional investments
– Saving for children
NZ Herald 5 April 2025
Q&As:
– Slow down huge mortgage payments and live a little …
– … Similar for couple in 60s — spend that KiwiSaver
– Misunderstanding about reverse mortgages
– Is Warren Buffett’s company still best investment?
– 3 Q&As on Deposit Compensation Scheme — on timing, joint accounts, KiwiSaver
RNZ Radio 17 October 2024
Banking in tough times — how we’re doing, plus payee confirmation coming at last!:
– How many apply for hardship
– How we run our credit cards
– Types of mortgages — what’s best?
– Use of term deposits
– Payee confirmation — see who you are paying online
NZ Herald 21 September 2024
Q&As:
– Laddering a mortgage can work well
– All Lotto profits go to grants
– Lotto expenses explained
– Good to invest for the dividends?
– Saving for grandkids within your own KiwiSaver
RNZ Radio 19 September 2024
How is your financial wellbeing?
– Produced by Te Ara Ahunga Ora Retirement Commission
– Doesn’t test financial knowledge, but how well you are coping with your money
– Brief discussion of what’s behind the questions
– If you want to read the quiz, go to the Te Ara Ahunga Ora Retirement Commission website