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,

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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

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Kernel Kiwisaver Review โ€“ The Lowest Fees In Town?

in a nutshell Annual Fee: 0.25% to 0.45% Performance Fee: 0% Funds Available: 17 Government Default Fund? No Kernel is the cheapest Kiwisaver scheme we know of that

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Simplicity Kiwisaver Review – How Good Is It?

in a nutshell Annual Fee: 0.3% Performance Fee: 0% Funds Available: 4 Government Default Fund? Yes Simplicity is one of the government's default Kiwisaver funds. It charges an

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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

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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,

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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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Is Alibaba A Multi-Bagger?

Alibaba is a tech/e-commerce company founded by Chinese entrepreneur Jack Ma. While Alibaba's original business is the B2B wholesale platform Alibaba.com, it has since grown into a tech

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How To Use MyMSD (WINZ, NZ Super & Other Benefits)

KEY POINTS MyMSD is an online portal where you can easily manage all your benefits in one place. It is developed by the Ministry of Social Development and

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Inflation Doesn’t Exist For Bitcoiners

For most people, inflation is an inevitability. Every year, inflation means things are going to get more expensive, and that’s just the way it is. Or is it?

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Quick Thoughts: The Logical Answer Is Bitcoin

A quick recap of the last few weeks. First, Silicon Valley Bank got into solvency problems and filed for bankruptcy. “Solvency problems” doesn’t really mean much to most

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This Retirement Home Operator Could Be A Bargain

Walter Schloss. You may not know the name, but trust me, all the best investors in the world do. That’s because Schloss was easily one of the greatest

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Sharesies Review: An Honest Look At New Zealand’s Popular New Share Broker

the important stuff Stocks available: US, Aus, NZ Brokerage fees: 1.9% Foreign exchange fees: 0.5% Minimum order: $1 Sharesies is a NZ share broking service. They offer shares

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What Is A Dividend Reinvestment Plan?

Whenever you receive a dividend, you may get asked if you want to participate in the "Dividend Reinvestment Plan". In this article, I'll explain exactly what this means,

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Portfolio Update – February 2023

Very short portfolio update this month as I’ve been pretty inactive. I’ve had a lot of other duties taking up my time and had hardly any time for

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Is This Aussie Retailer A Hidden Gem?

Aussie retail stocks have been very interesting over the past twelve months. Many are at multi-year lows – not surprising – the market prices in rising rates and

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