Finance

Solar power is becoming a familiar feature across New Zealand suburbs and it can be a long-term, satisfying investment. Yet it is not a universal solution.

You wouldn’t purchase a new washing machine without shopping round first, so why do so many people stick with a credit card that isn’t giving them what they need?

Financial confidence is often treated as something you either have or you do not, but in reality it is far more fluid than this

Just because your car can go off the beaten track, doesn’t mean you have insurance to cover you if you have an accident while doing so.

Equal treatment can feel fair in theory, yet strict equality does not always sit comfortably beside very unequal circumstances.

Walk into a forest and everything feels different. The air is fresh, the sunlight radiates through the trees. Forests stand resiliently, growing to nature’s timetable.

There are a handful of recurring assumptions that regularly lead to disappointment at claim time, particularly for retirees

For many people, life after 50 begins to feel different in ways which are not always immediately visible from the outside.

Financial regret has a habit of becoming louder with age. Some seniors quietly carry the feeling they should be in a better financial position by now.

Granting enjoyment a place in life is one thing, choosing it openly, without the need to justify or soften it, can feel far more difficult.