Saving

NZ Herald 7 June 2025

Q&As:
– You’ve done well, but don’t lose compassion
– Spending seems to rise in retirement?
– Living on NZ Super — with plan for health costs
Plus:
– Not Planning on Home Ownership

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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

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RNZ Radio 22 May 2025

Disappointing KiwiSaver changes in 2025 Budget
– Changes to employer and employee contributions — and how to avoid them if you wish
– Government contributions halved
– No government money if you earn more than $180,000
– Good news for 16 and 17-year-olds — tell them about it!
– Assessment: Bad for self-employed and not employed, and employees pay for their own gains

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RNZ Radio 8 May 2025

Will Government change its KiwiSaver contributions — and if so, how should it do it?
– History of government contributions
– If changed, how should they do it?
– Arguments against change
– Suggestion 1: ban employees paying their employer contributions
– Suggestion 2: give beneficiaries KiwiSaver help — and prisoners

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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

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NZ Herald 15 March 2025

Q&As:
– Pensions available for ex-servicemen and women — and their partners
– A reverse mortgage can work well
– Reader dislikes house price falls
– 2 Q&As on budget of retirees who live on NZ Super and save…
– … and should they be getting allowance?
– 2 Q&As on spending in your nineties
– Is Super included in retirement spending “rules”?
– Don’t bail out of KiwiSaver in turbulent times

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NZ Herald 15 February 2025

Q&As:
– Couple support sons more than daughters
– Grandparents’ support comes with conditions
– Best place to keep emergency money
– Making retirement savings totals clearer
– Is my rule of thumb any good?

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NZ Herald 1 February 2025

Q&As:
– Where first home buyer, 24, should put savings
– Pros and cons of selling rental in retirement
– A tale of simple — but worrying — tax
– What to do when mortgage ends
– Helping a grandchild into KiwiSaver

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RNZ Radio 30 January 2025

Go offshore with KiwiSaver
– 2024 — good year in NZ shares, but even better elsewhere
– Fall in Kiwi dollar contributed
– Should look longer term
– How to invest in international shares
– Disloyal to NZ?

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