I`ve failed. It would appear that personal finance journalists` budgets are a bit like builders` houses. Never quite sorted out.The ASB asked me to take a 30-day challenge based on advice videos on its YouTube channel. The reality... Read...

One in four New Zealanders is totally debt-free. There`s no crushing mortgage upon their shoulders, or consumer finance millstone hanging about their neck. Read...

There is a basic rule of personal finance: pay off debt before you start to invest. Read...

What`s the eighth wonder of the world? No, not your three-year-old`s macaroni art. Read...

Threatened by litigation, his business in tatters, former Hanover Finance boss Mark Hotchin appeared to back a public relations campaign aiming to discredit criminal investigations into his company and attack personal enemies, documents suggest. Read...

There`s a fox in the hen house of personal finance. It`s called a credit card.Most people have little plastic friends. They may also have Farmers Card, QCard, Gem Visa and other store cards, which are credit cards disguised as hire... Read...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) Greece`s first public revenues chief, whose job was created in 2012 at the insistence of bailout creditors, has stepped down citing `personal grounds,` the country`s finance ministry says.A ministry statement... Read...

Kiwis are being urged to voice their worries over how personal information should be shared in the future.The New Zealand Data Futures Forum, recently set up by the ministries of finance and statistics, is gathering New Zealanders`... Read...

I began writing about personal finance during my OE in Britain. There, investor protection was generally good and there were organisations to complain to that could champion your case.A few months after returning to New Zealand... Read...

Personal finance is littered with gotchas. Acquainting yourself with tried and tested financial laws and rules provides some immunity to the worst of these gotchas.Rules of thumb such as the Rule of 72 and the Dunning Kruger Effect... Read...