Janine Starks

Janine Starks with some sobering mistletoe statistics on the Christmas consumer craziness and a plea for more prudence and less silliness around money.

Janine Starks with some sobering mistletoe statistics on the Christmas consumer craziness and a plea for more prudence and less silliness around money.

Janine Starks with a tale of hi-tech hijinx and a reminder to be hyper vigilant when it comes to internet banking transactions. Do you have a story to share?

Janine Starks with a tale of hi-tech hijinx and a reminder to be hyper vigilant when it comes to internet banking transactions. Do you have a story to share?

Janine Starks gets to the bottom of an insurance rejection claim and encourages Kiwis to take the reigns and keep a close watch on the waistline

Janine Starks gets to the bottom of an insurance rejection claim and encourages Kiwis to take the reigns and keep a close watch on the waistline

Janine Starks offers a six-step programme to help dig out of debt and break a vicious cycle of financial mismanagement and depression.

Janine Starks offers a six-step programme to help dig out of debt and break a vicious cycle of financial mismanagement and depression.

How much life insurance is enough? Janine Starks explores the upsides and downsides of risk management and insuring for the what if scenarios.

How much life insurance is enough? Janine Starks explores the upsides and downsides of risk management and insuring for the what if scenarios.

What's a would be retiring couple to do with lashings of assets and a dollop of income with a finite shelf-life? Janine Starks asks the hard questions and offers some solutions.

What's a would be retiring couple to do with lashings of assets and a dollop of income with a finite shelf-life? Janine Starks asks the hard questions and offers some solutions.

Janine Starks on intergenerational wealth, insurance claims, earthquake stress and elderly parents.

Janine Starks on intergenerational wealth, insurance claims, earthquake stress and elderly parents.

Janine Starks on higher education, zoning issues and the rent or buy conundrum facing a Wellington couple.

Janine Starks on higher education, zoning issues and the rent or buy conundrum facing a Wellington couple.

What's a single girl with a mountain of money, no man, a head full of worry and no house to do? Janine Starks considers her case.

What's a single girl with a mountain of money, no man, a head full of worry and no house to do? Janine Starks considers her case.

Janine Starks on sink holes, cracks, lateral spread, elevation changes and liquefaction

Janine Starks on sink holes, cracks, lateral spread, elevation changes and liquefaction

Janine Starks on "hyperbolic discounting", family finances and how not to end up in the spare bedroom over money differences.

Janine Starks on "hyperbolic discounting", family finances and how not to end up in the spare bedroom over money differences.

Janine Starks looks the escalating costs of 21st century socialising and says it's okay to say "I can't afford it", to give phony Facebook friends the pass, and save for the events you really want to be a part of.

Janine Starks looks the escalating costs of 21st century socialising and says it's okay to say "I can't afford it", to give phony Facebook friends the pass, and save for the events you really want to be a part of.

Janine Starks on the colour-coded land claim nightmare that is Christchurch. Your experience?

Janine Starks on the colour-coded land claim nightmare that is Christchurch. Your experience?

Janine Starks ponders the parental dilemma of pocketmoney and argues that "we are a bunch of irresponsible miserable gits."

Janine Starks ponders the parental dilemma of pocketmoney and argues that "we are a bunch of irresponsible miserable gits."

Janine Starks looks at liquefaction risk and rebuild prospects and insurance what ifs in the event of a quake in the capital. Your view?

Janine Starks looks at liquefaction risk and rebuild prospects and insurance what ifs in the event of a quake in the capital. Your view?

Janine Starks explores some options for an asset rich, cash poor octogenarian couple in great nick but in need for a new car.

Janine Starks explores some options for an asset rich, cash poor octogenarian couple in great nick but in need for a new car.

Janine Starks considers the case of a single female with $400k in the bank looking to buy a house without taking out a mortgage in an overpriced property market

Janine Starks considers the case of a single female with $400k in the bank looking to buy a house without taking out a mortgage in an overpriced property market

Janine Starks looks at the various shades of grey in a green-blue zoning conundrum and sees nothing but red-tape and trouble.

Janine Starks looks at the various shades of grey in a green-blue zoning conundrum and sees nothing but red-tape and trouble.

Opinion: Janine Starks takes a frank look at the cost risk of rebuilding in Christchurch and wonders whether skipping town might be the best way to preserve equity

Opinion: Janine Starks takes a frank look at the cost risk of rebuilding in Christchurch and wonders whether skipping town might be the best way to preserve equity

Janine Starks lays bare the added costs of builder's insurance (contrast risk by another name) and why you should care as a homeowner on the Shaky Isles.

Janine Starks lays bare the added costs of builder's insurance (contrast risk by another name) and why you should care as a homeowner on the Shaky Isles.

Janine Starks deconstructs insurer's policies regarding the role for and payment of architects for Chch home rebuilds.Your experience?

Janine Starks deconstructs insurer's policies regarding the role for and payment of architects for Chch home rebuilds.Your experience?

Janine Starks reviews a Red Zone riddle; two houses, same street, identical specs and similar damage but a gaping $200k difference between insurers.

Janine Starks reviews a Red Zone riddle; two houses, same street, identical specs and similar damage but a gaping $200k difference between insurers.

Columnist Janine Starks untangles a relationship property investment mess, brings some perspective to the fixed or floating conundrum, tells reader (politely) to pull their head in.

Columnist Janine Starks untangles a relationship property investment mess, brings some perspective to the fixed or floating conundrum, tells reader (politely) to pull their head in.