Is Sky TV A Buy?

If you ask almost any investor in New Zealand right now, “What about Sky TV?” you’re almost guaranteed to hear the following: Obsolete. Dying a slow death. Won’t

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The 7 Best Side Hustles In New Zealand

KEY POINTSThe best side hustles in New Zealand are:Matched bettingFlippingSurveys and focus groupsDriving UberFreelancingNiche site buildingDeclutteringAll have proven potential to earn over $1,000/mth and many can earn over

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Stocks I’m Buying:

The only four stocks I’m buying in NZ right now continue to be: MCK – Still great value with little downside and a solid dividend. SUM – Best

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Portfolio Update – April 2023

April was an interesting month. The markets have somewhat been in limbo with not much big movement in either direction. I love phases like this, actually. They test

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How To Make Your Kids Millionaires With Kiwisaver

Do you know the number one factor for success in investing? It’s not education, stock picking, research, intelligence, or even money. It’s time. Someone who has never read

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How To Research A Stock

1. Do the numbers look good? The first thing I look at it is some key numbers. These numbers tell me straight away whether it's a company that

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Why They Can’t “Just Change” The Bitcoin Code

"There will only ever be 21 million Bitcoins." "How can you be sure?" "Because it's written into the code." "What if they change it?" "They can't." "Why not?"

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Why New Zealanders Don’t Understand Bitcoin (But They Will)

Did you know in Argentina, many restaurants don’t even print out their menus? The reason is, the prices of the items change every month. Sometimes every week. That’s

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How To Value A Stock

When you're looking at a stock, it's important you know what price you should pay. Every day the NZX goes live and you can buy some of New

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Book Summary: Richer, Wiser, Happier by William Green

What's The Book About? Like the title suggests, the book uses different anecdotes and examples to describe how people think about money. For example, why people end up

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Book Summary: One Up On Wall Street By Peter Lynch

What's The Book About?The book is by Peter Lynch who is one of the most successful investors of all time, beating the market for twenty consecutive years, and

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Why Low ETF & Kiwisaver Fees Are So Important (And High Fees Could Cost You Over A Million Dollars)

Say I give you a dollar for your birthday.Then I tell you each year I'm going to double it. Next year I'll give you two dollars, the year after

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Kernel Kiwisaver Review – The Lowest Fees In Town?

in a nutshellAnnual Fee: 0.25% to 0.45%Performance Fee: 0%Funds Available: 17Government Default Fund? NoKernel is the cheapest Kiwisaver scheme we know of that allows you to invest in

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Simplicity Kiwisaver Review – How Good Is It?

in a nutshellAnnual Fee: 0.3%Performance Fee: 0%Funds Available: 4Government Default Fund? YesSimplicity is one of the government's default Kiwisaver funds. It charges an annual management fee of 0.3%,

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Book Summary: The Psychology Of Money By Morgan Housel

What's The Book About?Like the title suggests, the book uses different anecdotes and examples to describe how people think about money.For example, why people end up taking too

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Getting Ready For Altseason – My 5 Picks

My prediction (which would be astonishingly wrong) is we are going to have an altseason in 2024. The best time to prepare for altseason is many months before

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Out of all coal positions

The public portfolio is out of all coal positions. I still have a couple in my personal portfolio but looking to offload those soon. My positions were in

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Should You Really Invest Everything In The S&P 500?

Just buy the S&P 500! You can't lose money! It's the safest investment you can make!!This is popular advice given in countless personal finance books, blogs, podcasts, and

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Buying ETFs

As the portfolio gets closer to $100k, I am trying to weight it more heavily towards ETFs to de-risk. Eventually I’d like the portfolio to be around 40%

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Portfolio Update – March 2023

Deployed quite a lot of cash this month. Unfortunately, I’ve been pretty busy and haven’t been side hustling too much, and I think this will be the theme

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