Small Business Financial Support Post Covid-19 Requires a More Nuanced Response – Financial Adviser Hannah McQueen
The new leader of the opposition, Todd Muller, has clearly indicated small business is where he thinks more support should be directed in order to help the economy recover from Covid-19. He’s right – but the support required is a little more nuanced than he might think. Small businesses have had support with the wage […]
Top Tips For Not Letting The Silly Season Result In A Sullen New Year – From enable.me Financial Adviser Katie Wesney
The silly season is almost upon us and it’s a time when many of us start to get anxious about the amount of organising we need to do before the holidays and the not-insignificant matter of how we are going to pay for everything. enable.ne Financial Adviser, Katie Wesney provides a few of her top […]
It’s Cool To Kōrero – Financial Advisor Hannah McQueen on Why it’s So Important to Drop the Taboo and Talk About Money in Relationships
In the dating game, the closest you usually come to discussing finances is working out who will pick up the bill for the date. Fair enough – it’s not exactly a sexy topic! But there’s a case to be made for adding finances to the list of tricky subjects to navigate with a prospective partner […]
“More Money Is Not The Answer To Your Money Woes” – Financial Advisor Hannah McQueen
We’re all familiar with the daydream. The one where you hit the jackpot with this week’s lotto numbers and all your financial worries disappear. No need for a budget advisor – because the budget just got supersized! But when the daydream is over, here’s the reality. More money, even a significant windfall, is not the […]
Marie Kondo Your Money – How Sorting Your Finances Can Spark Joy
“Does it spark joy?” is the question declutterers everywhere have been asking themselves as they ransack their closets and clear out their junk corners. Marie Kondo’s hugely popular, super-simple method of deciding what to toss and what to keep is very effective – and also quite cathartic. But it struck me, as I “Kondoed” my […]
Little Can Be Huge – Small Savings Tips To Make A Big Difference From enable.me’s Financial Advisers
As a kid, you will probably have been taught about the beauty and the beast that is compounding interest. With saving, you earn interest on your interest, so it compounds over time which is a beautiful thing. When you borrow, if you’re not paying the loan down, you’ll start paying interest on the interest, which […]
Why So Many Millennials Are Financially Frustrated
Teens leave home or head off to university full of dreams and excitement about the future – but if you fast forward just a few years, the wheels start to fall off. In fact, 75% of those millennials – those aged 25-33 – have suffered a quarter-life crisis, according to a major LinkedIn study across […]
How To Get Smart, Get Lean and Get Ahead in 2019 – with enable.me’s Financial Coaches
If you run a business, you’re always reviewing budgets and trimming expenses, because you don’t want rising costs eating into your profits. Otherwise, what is the point of working so hard all year?! Unfortunately, few people pay such close attention to the household budget! Generally, once there’s ‘enough’ – to pay the mortgage, buy groceries […]
Your 5-Minute Guide To Managing Christmas Costs
The tinsel is out at The Warehouse and chocolate Santas are in stock at Farmers (yes, already!) which can mean only one thing: Christmas and all its festive cheer – and financial strain – is just around the corner. Somehow, Christmas always manages to sneak up on us, even though it comes around at the […]
To buy, or not to buy? That is the question – Hannah McQueen explains
It’s often touted that paying rent is the same as paying someone else’s mortgage (ie: the landlords), and you would be better off owning the property and pay your own mortgage instead. Like most financial ideas there is some truth in this, but taken in its simplest interpretation is down-right misleading. Poor property yields, high […]
