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Amanda's Take Five for Wednesday

Mortgage fast-tracking (a case study of hair ironing); Cracking down on bad debt behaviour; 34 ways to spend less; Start-up smarts; Laughing at billionaires in love

Rabo cuts term deposit rates

RaboDirect cuts term deposit rates; Latest in mortgage and deposit rate cuts over last two weeks

Term deposit rates falling

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Term deposit rates falling: Westpac, Rabo, BNZ, ANZ National all cut: Reserve Bank eyes possible upward pressure on deposit rates if credit demand picks up

Amanda's Take Five for Wednesday

Life is perfect, now what?; Honey are you happy?;  Failure to launch (on-line); Rich, happy and hot; Nice girls don't ask

Amanda's Take Five for Monday

Who's teaching your children about money?; 15 personal finance principles; Warren Buffett's actual cheerleaders; Sell in May and stay away?;The (high) price of death

Kiwibank, TSB cut deposit rates

New Zealand-owned banks TSB and Kiwibank cut term deposit rates

Amanda's Take Five for Thursday

Marital mischief; Mark Zuckerberg a renter?!; Facebook's IPO; Making money while you loaf around in bed; Are you ready for compulsory savings?

Term deposit rates change

ANZ National hikes two term deposit rates, Kiwibank hikes one, cuts three

Amanda's Take Five for Thursday

Social media and other great productivity impediments; How to be a contrarian; Are you a workaholic; Loan sharks; The costs and benefits of the family dog 

Amanda's Take Five for Friday

Digging out of debt; the lunacy of minimum credit card repayment; personal loans; revolving credit; and comparative credit card rates

Amanda's Take Five for Tuesday

20 new rules for money; I'm not worthy; Be grateful for what you have; Don't shoot the messenger; An economist eats lunch; Budgeting blunders; Ipad Dad

Amanda's Take Five for Wednesday

The global pay scale; Diminishing returns; He says, she says; Dare to dream; Managing an inheritance

Amanda's Take Five for Tuesday

Financial bad boys; Closet materialists and new cars; As good as it gets at 2.6%?!'; Tiresome personal finance cliches; 10 rules for coupledom finance

Time to do away with default providers?

Retirement researcher calls for end to KiwiSaver auto-enrollment & thus the elimination of default providers who've been dealt an unfair 'competitive advantage'. Your view?

What's your plan B John Key?

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Opinion: Personal finance Amanda Morrall looks at the ticking time bomb of unsustainable NZ Super and asks why the govt isn't doing something, anything, to address the problem?

Amanda's Take Five for Tuesday

Lotto junkies; Cheap holiday destinations; Shopping for the sake of shopping; Housing bubbles; Shameless pet plug

KiwiSaver Q&A

A self-employed reader in their early sixties ask whether KiwiSaver makes sense, and if so what fund and how much to contribute.

Amanda's Take Five for Thursday

Chocolate coated incentives to kindness; Lifestyles of Africa's super rich; Prepare to die; Passive income and financial independence; Much ado about NZX director fees? 

Amanda's Take Five for Wednesday

Me, retired? "Yeah right!"; What's wrong with renting? Nothing; The hidden upside to drinking wine; Let the rich sacrifice their bloated salaries? Why females make bad bankers (supposedly)

Amanda's Take Five for Tuesday

Asset hiding husbands; Look who's bringing home the bacon now; One supermarket chain's secret sauce; Fee loads and ETFs; Six most traded currencies