New Zealand Finance

In this book, top New Zealand finance podcaster and journalist Frances Cook shows you how to change your money so that you can live your ideal life. Learn how, on an ordinary income, you can plan for and achieve true financial freedom, with expert advice and step-by-step information.

Forever wrestling with annoying debt? Clueless about where your pay cheques go? Want to get ahead?Journalist, podcaster and reformed money mess Frances Cook is here for you. Tales from a Financial Hot Mess is the story of how Frances got her money s--t sorted. This book is the real deal - not another bulleted, tabled, graphed lecture from a financial advisor who's never had issues with money.

In this easy-to-listen-to and practical guide, you’ll learn how investing in property can achieve your financial goals at every stage of your life—from buying your first home, to building a portfolio and into retirement. Full of helpful case studies, useful data, and clearly articulated strategies, this is an indispensable read for anyone wanting to build a long-term wealth plan.

Should I fix or float? Is now a good time to buy — or sell? What do self-made billionaires know that you and I don’t? Why does cheese cost so much? Veteran financial journalist Liam Dann has fielded as many money-related questions as he has enjoyed beers around the BBQ — and often at the same time. In this book, he sets out to answer them all, sharing his decades of insight with stories and quotes from prominent politicians, financial experts and business moguls in a super-informative, entertaining introduction to money, how it works, what we should do with it, and why it matters.

This book is the first comprehensive account of how Australia attained the world's highest living standards within a few decades of European settlement, and how the nation has sustained an enviable level of income to the present. Beginning with the Aboriginal economy at the end of the 18th century, Ian McLean argues that Australia's remarkable prosperity across nearly two centuries was reached and maintained by several shifting factors.

The Buxtons are one of only a few families that were successful in the gold rush era and are still prominent today. They have survived and prospered through two world wars, two calamitous depressions, numerous recessions, and any number of political and economic crises. In The Buxtons, Peter Yule brings their story to life, tracing how this one family left a distinctive mark on Melbourne’s landscape.