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Articles by Amanda Morrall

NZ Super double dipping unfairness

Retirement Policy and Research Centre recommends minimum 25 year residency requirement to qualify for NZ Super. Your thoughts?

Amanda's Take Five for Friday

Butting out; E-erotica; Solo savings; 2/4/6/8 contribution rates; get a job, a second job!

Amanda's Take Five for Thursday

Passion pursuits and money; Buddy up; Get it right grasshopper; Saving enough for retirement?; Hot BODs 

How to do your own tax refunds

Are you leaving money on the table? Amanda Morrall looks at the ease of on-line tax refunds and how to do-it-yourself. Your experience?

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

Amanda's Take Five for Tuesday

Facebook's IPO flop of a non-pop; Obsession with Treasury bonds; Short-term noise; Roam at your own risk; Tax sharks

Amanda's Take Five for Monday

Life inflation; Taxation by stealth; Superfrugality savings strategies; Buy the home you love; five economic concepts consumers need to know

KiwiSaver a retirement "reality check"

KiwiSaver credited with raising awareness about retirement readiness but half believe their standard of living will slip after 65.

KiwiSaver to hit 2 million by August

Membership grows to 1.93 million, on track to reach 2 million this spring. Tax means savers need to top up, says Tower

Amanda's Take Five for Friday

The law of diminishing returns; Treasury bond bubble?; NZ government bonds; lower for longer; everything you wanted to know about bonds but were afraid to ask

Amanda's Take Five for Thursday

Meat bag investor brain; Actively staying passive; Minimising the bank burn on money transfers; Four-hour case studies; Check your wallet

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 Tuesday

Attention on-line shoppers; 9 reasons not to panic about hyped up housing bubbles; NZ$6 million in unclaimed bonds; Safe withdrawal rates; Taking time to eat lunch

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

KiwiSaver Q&A

Personal finance editor Amanda Morrall takes a closer look at two provisions for early access to KiwiSaver funds: financial hardship and permanent emigration

Amanda's Take Five for Friday

Repayment at what price?; Making money off the rich through luxury stocks; Mid-life millionaires; The daddy track; Canadian banks

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?

Amanda's Take Five for Wednesday

What will they do next? Lazy savers; A crude awakening; Sleep deficit and productivity; Time on your savings side

Equities push growth funds to fore in KiwiSaver

Updated
KiwiSaver 1st quarter 2012 performance rankings; top three plus finisher by peer group.

Amanda's Take Five for Tuesday

What money will buy; What gold won't buy; Lifestyle over income; DIY Supers; Predatory banks

90 seconds at 9 am

90 seconds at 9 am: Share markets fall on disappointing U.S. retail data; corporate earnings strong; Spain's situation worsens; RBA expected to lower cash rate

Price pull back deflates bubble theory

April sees drop in new listings nationally while demand remains strong reinforcing seller's market; Auckland and Hawkes Bay buck the trend in price pull back

Amanda's Take Five for Monday

The futility of a crap paying job (a case study): How to live an extraordinary life; The importance of planning; The professional class bubble; KiwiSaver at 65

90 seconds at 9 am

90 seconds at 9 am: U.S. job data; corporate earnings; OCR announcement from Australia; NZ unemployment stats; Goldman Sachs banker the next BOE governor?

Amanda's Take Five for Friday

Super high fees on 'lost' super money in Oz; Margaret Atwood on debt; Job career or calling; 80 the new 65; Let's make a deal - the Mesquita way