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Don't panic over mortgage rates

Mortgage rates have trended down for the last quarter of a century, helping fuel house price inflation. Now they are on ...

New year, new mortgage fears, but there's still time to pay down your home loan.

The $2.5 billion pension 'fraud'

Malcolm Larsen has lost much of his superannuation after he married his Norwegian wife.

Anyone who pays money into an foreign pension fund while working overseas will find on retirement that their New Zealand pension is severely docked. Many say the law needs to change.

Resisting the urge to splurge

Be sure to have a clear plan of attack when you visit the mall, to avoid those unnecessary purchases and minimise credit ...

Opinion: Learn how to overcome the temptation to spend and take back control of your wallet.

Mermaid dollars, silver coins

New Zealand dollars were the second-most intercepted form of currency in the past six years.

Millions in smuggled currency intercepted by Customs - including strip club money.

Travel insurance that's not fit to fly

Read the policy before you buy travel insurance, or you could end up with low levels of cover.

It's flyer beware as some travel insurance policies having shockingly limited cover definitions.

Dying woman's $18k debt wiped

Heather Elsmore's daughter was helping her with living costs as she was hounded by the bank.

ANZ apologises for hounding terminally ill woman for months for missing loan payments.

Pokie spending surges

Pokie spending hit a five-year high in 2016, despite a sharp fall in the number of machines.

Gaming machine spend at five-year high, prompting warning of links to money laundering.

Save $50k, travel to 50 countries

"If you just say you want to do something but you're not setting goals to get there, you might never get there," says ...

They passed up nights out, opened savings accounts and now this couple are seeing the world.

Finding a job after redundancy

Deciding  to retire, rewire, or get rehired? There are opportunities for those willing to apply proven job-finding ...

Proven job-finding techniques will help avoid the old pitfalls of hunting a new job down.

Most ruinous spending habits

Impulse spending is a major threat to household saving.

Unplanned purchases, gadgets and booze are behind our worst spending blowouts, a survey shows.

Latta money show bankrolled video

Nigel Latta's new show Mind Over Money will investiagte why we are so weird with money.

Nigel Latta's got a story to tell about people's weirdness with money. But there's a story about the show, too.

Consumer tests kitchen benchtops

When renovating the kitchen, it's important to factor in how resistent to damage your choice of benchtop is.

Consumers has attacked nine different benchtops with knives, weights and scouring pads to see which is best.

Homeowners who hate high prices

For many young people the key to their own home is out of reach.

OPINION: Many homeowners unhappy about high house prices.

The perils of regifting

A hand-knitted pair of neon legwarmers? Really, you shouldn’t have.

Enough time has passed to ditch those unwanted Christmas presents, but you’ve got to be a bit sneaky.

Parents face rising school 'BYOD' costs

It's likely children starting school this year will go through at least three "devices" during their schooling, not ...

Devices like Chromebooks and notepads on back to school shopping lists.

Invest in yourself in 2017

Follow these tips to increase the value of your human capital.

Invest in yourself and watch your human capital grow alongside your super and investment assets.

NZ's massive 2016 credit card bill

Many Kiwis should take a long, hard look at whether the card in their wallet is right for them.

Kiwis spent more than $36 billion on their credit cards in 2016, but only a minority of them paid it back without interest.

When banks behave badly

Should your bank ever behave unreasonably, keep calm, and don't be fobbed off with excuses.

Three Banking Ombudsman cases show how unreasonable, inconsistent and infuriating banks can be.

Confidence hits two-year high

Despite another substantial earthquake, business confidence rose at the end of 2016, including in Wellington and the ...

Despite earthquake, more Wellington businesses expect economy to grow than at any time since mid-2014.

The truth about inequality in NZ

Where NZ sits for income inequality.

Never mind the politics, what are the hard numbers on inequality in New Zealand?

Beloved yacht sells for $480,000

The 1944 Staysail Schooner has made several long-distance journeys, including successfully making it across the Tasman ...

A 1944 yacht listed for $1 has sold after a frantic two-week auction online.

ACC briber's 'dire' finances

Gregory Hutt, pictured, appeared for sentencing in the High Court in Wellington in 2012, after earlier pleading guilty ...

Second company linked to man tied up in ACC bribery scandal liquidated.

Your secret cash source

If you aren't too tired, you could try selling a week of annual leave back to your employer.

OPINION: There's an unrecognised cash resource many of us don't know we have - holidays.

Customers drive banking innovation

Karen Scott-Howman is the chief executive of the New Zealand Bankers' Association.

Where bankers may once have shunned technology, the opposite is true today.

How to nail your money goals

Write down your ambitions, not just once but every single day if possible.

Everyone manages the getting really drunk part at New Year, but not so much the self-improvement thing.

Surviving mid-life career crisis

If this is how your career makes you feel, perhaps you should consider a change.

These days few people make it through life with one career - but that's not necessarily a bad thing.

Paying the vague tax

Don't despair if you're a little absentminded.

Over the years I've left wallets in cafes, I've let gift cards expire and paid fees on direct debits that bounced.

How would you spend $100,000?

Most of us would spend an extra $100,000 on a house.

An overseas trip or a new car? Nope. It seems most of us would spend it on a house.

Young, rich and frugal

Garrett Gee, wife Jessica, and children Dorothy and Manilla have been travelling the world.

He sold his company to Snapchat for US$54m and travels the world, but hasn't spent a cent of his fortune.

Email prize warning

banking, business, buy, card, commerce, computer, credit, credit card, data, ecommerce, electronic, electronic banking, ...

The emails claim people can win prizes from New Zealand businesses that aren't actually directly involved.

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