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Are money hassles wrecking your relationship?

Submitted by Diana Clement on Friday, 26 February 2010 Category: Managing your money We all know that Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus. This can create real problems if couples have misaligned money values. Money compatibility is hardly the first thing you think about when cupid's arrow strikes. So we have to learn to live financially with the partner we choose. The alternative is endless arguments and even marital break down.

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Managed Fund Performance

Submitted by Mike Heath on Tuesday, 23 February 2010 Category: Managed Funds Following on from the “Managed Funds for Beginners” campaign we kicked off late last year, we’ve enhanced the information we provide on the historical performance of the Managed Funds we offer

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Investing for investment's sake

Submitted by Diana Clement on Tuesday, 16 February 2010 Category: Investing A lot of property investors have been quaking in their boots over the past few weeks. They feared that the government would stop them claiming rental losses against tax on their day jobs.

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Managed Funds for Beginners

Submitted by Mike Heath on Thursday, 4 February 2010 Category: Managed Funds You may recall having received an invitation from us late last year to take part in our first Managed Funds webinar essentially covering Managed Funds 101 i.e. an introduction to Managed Funds for those considering them for the first time. I must say the webinar was both well attended and received.

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Radically simplify your finances

Submitted by Diana Clement on Thursday, 28 January 2010 Category: Managing your money It's still that time of year when we want new beginnings. A great one is to simplify your finances.

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New Year, New You

Submitted by Diana Clement on Thursday, 14 January 2010 Category: Managing your money I'm the eternal optimist. It annoys some readers. But I really do believe there are silver linings in financial downturns. Last year was a rude reminder to many people not to put all their eggs in one basket, and that living it up personally on your business profits or even capital can end in tears. Many will have learned from those lessons and go on to be better investors or business people. Ask those who were in business through the 1987 to the mid 1990s.

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Thank you and have a great Xmas and New Year!

Submitted by Mike Heath on Thursday, 24 December 2009 Category: RaboPlus On behalf of the team at RaboPlus I'd like to wish you a fantastic festive season and to thank you for your support in 2009. On one hand it's hard to believe it will be 2010 next week, yet on the other it seems like an eternity since we were last celebrating Xmas. It's also hard to believe that RaboPlus will be 4 years old in a matter of weeks – those 4 years have really flown by!

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Good gift giving

Submitted by Diana Clement on Friday, 18 December 2009 Category: Managing your money Have you ever noticed that "gift" is a four-lettered word? I don't mean to sound like the Grinch. But there is so much time, effort, and money wasted over the buying and giving of gifts. If we all engaged our brains gift giving would be far more successful.

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Your feedback to "What would your ideal online bank look like and what would it offer?"

Submitted by Mike Heath on Monday, 14 December 2009 Category: RaboPlus In last week's edition of ActiveMoney I asked for feedback on what the ideal online bank would look like. I must say how pleased I was with the breadth and depth of the feedback and also how closely aligned many of the suggestions were with our plans for RaboPlus.

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What would your ideal online bank look like?

Submitted by Mike Heath on Thursday, 10 December 2009 Category: RaboPlus If I was to ask you to describe your ideal online bank, what would it look like? And what about products, are there any new types of products that you think we should be offering?

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About the Blog

Read Mike and Diana's opinions and views about the current state of New Zealand's financial wellbeing.

About Mike Heath

Mike Heath is the General Manager for RaboPlus.co.nz.

Mike_profile_smallWith a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Otago University, Mike’s career to date has predominately been in the fields of Sales & Marketing.

About Diana Clement

Diana Clement is an Auckland-based freelance personal finance and investment writer.

Diana_profile_smallShe was the winner of the New Zealand Property Media Awards 2007 and has worked in the UK and New Zealand as a journalist since 1988.