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Lisa Dudson
Lisa is a Certified Financial Planner and was the winner of the 2003 Young Financial Planner of the Year. She is the author of many books including The Complete Guide to Residential Property Investment in New Zealand.
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Tips about credit contracts
The Commerce Commission has come up with some excellent advice, especially relating to credit contracts which is essentially what you enter into when you make a purchase.
Tackling debt later in life
I'm in heaps of debt and close to retirement - what can I do?
How do Bonus Bonds work?
Bonus bonds were launched by the Government in 1970 and are now New Zealand's largest retail unit trust.
Paying off your Christmas and holiday debt
Are you struggling to get your head around how you are going to pay off the debt you have accumulated over Christmas? What are the things you need to do to get on top of it?
What is happening with interest rates?
It's safe to say they are on their way down - in January the Reserve Bank announced another drop in the OCR (Offical Cash Rate) by 1.5%. The rate has dropped from its peak in June 2008 of 8.25% to 3.5% today.
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