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Sustainable Investing or greenwashing?
Sustainable investing is becoming increasingly popular with more and more Kiwi’s showing their interest in the environmental, social and human capital impacts of the funds they are investing in. Due to this demand several funds have sprung up that are labelled “responsible”, “ethical” or...
How we are helping Kiwis with their future
Recently we helped Helen*, aged 61, review her current insurance policies. Helen has had Trauma cover since 2002 and as part of our standard process we explained her policy back to her so she could more easily understand what she was covered for. During this conversation, Helen mentioned she was...
Transitional Financial Advice Provider Licence
In November we were granted our Transitional Financial Advice Provider Licence. This licence is an important milestone and is required as part of new legislation that is coming in to practice from March 2021. This legislation aims to improve access to high quality financial advice for all New...
Silver Lining of Lockdown
If you ask New Zealanders about their experiences during the COVID-19 lockdown(s), you’ll get a wide range of responses. Stress and worries about family, jobs and the economy, not to mention the virus itself and the implications for the world in general. There’s no doubt that for many of us it has...
What negative interest rates actually mean
Written by Martin Hawes - Director and shareholder, Lifetime Retirement Income Negative interest rates. Now there’s a phrase that would turn any income investor’s blood to ice. Things are bad enough now but what will it be like if we have to pay the bank to look after our money? How are we going...
Get up, stand up
Surprising ways sitting is bad for your health and what to do about it