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Smart Money

Smart Money

By: Newstalk ZB
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Looking to make sense of your dollars? Newstalk ZB’s Smart Money delves into the deep, dark recesses of unwanted debt, traverses the highs and lows of investments and helps to ensure you money works for you.

Our industry experts give us their top tips on a wide selection of topics including mortgage rates, stock, savings, goal-setting and retirement.2026 Newstalk ZB Economics Personal Finance
Episodes
  • Rupert Carlyon: Global tension? Ignore your KiwiSaver

    Rupert Carlyon: Global tension? Ignore your KiwiSaver
    Mar 22 2026

    Tensions are high for everyone right now, and I know most people will either be nervously checking their KiwiSaver balance on the daily, or completely ignoring it until things calm down a bit.

    The most repeated advice advisors will be giving right now is to simply ignore your balance for the time being - that by the time the first bomb dropped, it was too late to change anything. But is that really true?

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    40 mins
  • Chris Wilson: KiwiSaver changes need some tweaking

    Chris Wilson: KiwiSaver changes need some tweaking
    Mar 15 2026

    From April 1st, the KiwiSaver minimum default contribution rate will move up to 3.5%.

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    41 mins
  • Nick Crawford: The mistakes people make with a windfall

    Nick Crawford: The mistakes people make with a windfall
    Mar 8 2026

    We've all found ourselves day dreaming about where we'd spend a big Lotto win at one point or another.

    Realistically, many of us will come into a major windfall - but it's likely to come in the form of a bonus at work, or an inheritance.

    Is it okay to buy a new car and go on holiday? Or should we invest it all?

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    41 mins
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