Are you a financial grown-up?
Of all the recurring “grass is greener” arguments, the childhood vs adulthood one is surely the most misleading. Through a kid’s eyes, adulthood is just one long series of late bedtimes, unrestricted screen time and...
Of all the recurring “grass is greener” arguments, the childhood vs adulthood one is surely the most misleading. Through a kid’s eyes, adulthood is just one long series of late bedtimes, unrestricted screen time and...
This article was written in April 2021. Legislative changes may alter the accuracy of this article. We recommend you take professional tax advice. This is a really hot topic on the news at the...
This article was written by Elise Vollweiler for the Motueka Guardian in March 2021 If you squint a little, the five-year graph slants down like the eyebrow of a scowling cartoon character. If you’ve recently...
Relationship financial stress is a leading cause of breakups
It harks back to Stanford’s classic marshmallow test. You know the one. A child is left alone with a sugary treat, having been told that they are welcome to eat it at their leisure. But...
Sometimes you just have to be brutally honest about the limitations of your own willpower to organise finances. 2021 has arrived hat-in-hand, bringing with it the conciliatory offer of a fresh start. A new year...
Stu and Alan
Anna-May Martin joins the team at Castle Trust. Welcome on board.
Does anyone remember the scene in Dead Poet’s Society when Robin Williams asked one his pupils to describe what was on the desk at the front of the class? And then told the boy to...
The USA Retirement Savings Crisis Recently, I came across a financial blog about the effect of the Ford F-150 4wd truck on the retirement savings in the USA. The title of blog was ‘Pick-up trucks...
Article written in September 2020 In recent times you may have heard commentators discussing the possibility of negative interest rates. On the surface that seems simple but what does that actually mean and how does...
In 2018-19, the Commission for Financial Capability (a govt agency) undertook a survey of 15,519 adult New Zealanders on their financial behaviours, attitudes and experiences. In August 2020 they published a report of their findings....
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