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Why Buffett is bearish on bonds; Prepping for retirement as a solo parent;...
By Amanda Morrall1) Buffett on bondsWarren Buffett is a down right bear on bonds and he thinks individual investors ought to be as well. Why? As reported in the following AP story, Buffett is...
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Income oriented investing; why women should care more about money than men;...
By Amanda Morrall1) Women and moneyThe fact that the majority of readers coming to our site and reading my column will likely skip this first link because of the reference to women reinforces the...
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Shock proofing your portfolio; This is why you are broke; Financial advisor...
By Amanda MorrallA piece of housekeeping first folks.Starting next week I'll be reintroducing this column on a trice weekly regular basis; Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.I'm also pleased to announce...
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Why our funds management industry is flunking out; Two life changing chapters...
By Amanda Morrall1) FlunkedIt's not exactly a cause for celebration however New Zealand's funds management sector might be congratulated for having gone up a notch in the biennial Morningstar ratings...
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Save early, save often; Self managed funds; A simple plan; Minimise your...
By Amanda Morrall1) Save early, save oftenI interviewed a financial advisor recently who said despite all the doom and gloom facing younger generations (priced out of the housing market, saddled with...
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Breathing your way through financial problems; Relationship breakdown; High...
By Amanda Morrall1) The Money BreatheWhere money meets the yoga mat, you'll find a guy named Brent Kessel, a financial advisor/yogi from the US who manages more than US$800 million.I used to read his...
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Do you believe - in yourself?; Passion, persistence and patience; You are...
By Amanda Morrall1) The power of beliefIt's been a while since I linked to acid tongued personal finance guru Ramit Sethi and while he still annoys me his content is good.In the following post, Ramit...
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How much is your habit costing you?; Cutting the fat from your grocery bill;...
By Amanda MorrallWith apologies to all you personal finance sophisticates out there, today's edition of Take Five we're going back to basics. Sometimes this is an important step even for the fully...
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Time wars; Canada, eh?; Workplace engagement; Love is in the air; What we can...
By Amanda Morrall1) Time warsOne of the worst/best moves I've made in a while is giving my 10-year-old son my old Nokia. No, it's not the texting or games that have become an issue, instead the device...
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KiwiSaver churn traps; 30 PF pointers for 30-somethings; Mortgage brokers...
By Amanda Morrall1) KiwiSaver churn trapsDavid Maida, writing for Financial Alert, reports on the poaching of KiwiSaver accounts from banks employing aggressive sales and switching strategies.Maida,...
View ArticleAmanda Morrall talks to Fiserv's Jim Tobin about mobile phone banking and why...
By Amanda MorrallIf you needed more evidence that the standard wallet is set to become a thing of the past, consider this: in the last three years, the value of transactions processed via mobile phone...
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Review and renew; Buying insurance from the bank; Minimising bank fees on...
By Amanda Morrall1) Review and renewThis weekend I watched from afar my hometown in Alberta, Canada turned into a swimming pool as it suffered from the worst flooding in a century. I couldn't help but...
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Five languages of love; Six homemade blunders to lower your home's worth;...
By Amanda MorrallDon't ask me why today I'm working in numbers, more than usual.It's something I emphasised this morning while I was instructing some yoga students how to breathe mindfully and deeply...
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The illusion of wealth; Negotiating cheaper rent; Invest in what you know;...
By Amanda MorrallMy youngest loves to play the what-if game. It used to be choosing between two morbidly ways to die. The dialogue went something like this: "Mum, if you had a choice would you swim in...
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In part three of the making of a multi-millionaire, our guest blogger shares...
(The following is the third and final part of our series on the making of a multi-millionaire. If you missed parts one and two, you'll find them in the personal finance archives or by clicking on the...
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So you wanna be an appreneur?; "Help I lost my mojo"; Q&A with the Mr. Money...
By Amanda Morrall1) App happyA while back, after reading one of my blogs a friend of mine was inspired to become an appreneur.We both thought it was a brilliant idea at the time. Sadly, for him, the...
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Teaching your workers about money; Getting someone else to pay your mortgage;...
By Amanda Morrall1) Work worriesAs an employer you'll optimistically think that your employees, when they are not hard at work, are pondering work related problems and how to solve them. Guess...
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Five retirement questions you were too scared to ask; Bad habits; Think rich...
By Amanda Morrall1) Five questions you were too scared to ask From time to time, my financial advisor used to let me in on a few secrets.One of them was how often he would hear from his clients (the...
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Space age payments; Housing prices and interest rate risk; Compounding...
By Amanda Morrall1) Space age paymentsCNN reports that PayPal is "getting serious" about a payment system for those going into sub-orbital space soon, or living on planets later. Seriously? I'll be...
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Book exchange; Confucious and bitcoin; Clever Kiwis; Housing hysteria redux;...
By Amanda Morrall1) The karma book exchangeI love books. Always have. Always will. But in the Buddhist spirit of detatchment lately I have been giving them away. As a reviewer of books (one of my many...
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Knowing the difference between speed bumps and speed limits; Breaking through...
By Amanda Morrall1) Speed limits and speed bumpsFor those of you who missed my column on Wednesday, greetings from beautiful Ubud in Bali. In between gruelling yoga sessions, I am faithfully blogging...
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Pareto's principle applied to personal finance; Financial regrets; Myers...
By Amanda Morrall1) Pareto and personal financeIf you're unfamiliar with Pareto's principle it goes something like this: that 80% of all productive outcome arises from 20% of input.Pareto came up with...
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Personal finance reboot; 11 equations you should understand; Managing money...
By Amanda MorrallFolks if you missed my earlier announcement, this week marks my final delivery of this column.I previously suggested that you start book marking some of these links I use so you can...
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Where there's a will there's a wish; Three paths to financial fruition; Rich...
By Amanda Morrall1) Estate planning Morbid I know but it's a fate that awaits us all. The Wall Street Journal uses the late great James Gandolfini (of The Sopranos fame) as a case study in how to slice...
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My top five favourite personal finance links in no particular order
By Amanda MorrallMost of you could probably guess them off the top of your head, however for those stumbling across this column for the first and last time, here's my top favourite personal finance...
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