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KiwiSaver in Hawke’s Bay: How to Pick the Best Fund for Your Future

Choosing a KiwiSaver fund is one of the most important money decisions you will make. The right fund helps you grow your retirement savings, buy your first ...
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Life Insurance in Hawke’s Bay: Choosing the Right Cover for Your Family

Protecting your family is the most important job you have. The right life insurance policy helps you do that. It gives your loved ones financial security if ...
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Should I wait before investing in case the fall continues?

Timing the market, or time in the market?

After a largely profitable decade, the last two years have been rather disappointing for some investors. The main reason for the market decline has been ...
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Family stock-picking competition

Family stock-picking competition

While moderating the Mary Holm event at the Central Hawkes Bay Readers & Writers book festival this year, the topic of educating children about investing came up.  ...
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The Euro is not a real currency yet

The Euro: an unfinished project and why that is important now

This piece is much longer than our normal blogs. We hope that you find it of interest of course, however the somewhat technical language and length ...
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Trouble in China's economy

China Crisis?

For the past couple of years New Zealanders have experienced the first real bout of inflation in decades. From food to fuel to almost every ...
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Do I need Life insurance?

The multiple uses for Life insurance

“Research shows that Aotearoa is significantly underinsured, meaning many New Zealanders are likely to have inadequate protection. Globally, Aotearoa ranks 26th out of 56 OECD ...
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Are banks in trouble?

What’s happening with the banks?

Recent international news about bank failures and near-failures might seem strange as here in Australasia the news had been more about the record profits for ...
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Which is better, Active management or Passive investing?

The situation in China – a chance for active managers to earn their fee?

One of the endless debates in the world of investing, is whether active or passive is better. Active managers claim to be able to “beat ...
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Stock market recovery or Dead cat bounce

The bear market ends, so was that it?

After more than a decade of near uninterrupted growth, investors were shaken from their complacency in January of this year by a sudden and sustained ...
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