“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 […]
What you need to tell your daughters about money – By Financial Advisor & enable.me founder, Hannah McQueen
[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”] [et_pb_row admin_label=”row”] [et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”] The odds are still stacked against women financially, so what can you do to give your daughter the best chance of beating them? Women have come a long, long way since the women’s rights movement began in the late 19th century, and Kiwi women have come a long way since […]
How we grew our savings while shrinking our liquor cabinet
Penelope Whitson of Credit Simple has been working with an enableMe Financial Personal Trainer for six months. She writes about what she’s learned – and achieved – so far. This year we paid someone to stalk us for our own financial good. Pippa is our enableMe financial personal trainer and we know she’s always watching what we […]
Funding the Festive Season: How to make sure Christmas doesn’t break the bank
With howling wind and even snow in parts of the country this past week, it might not quite seem like it – but spring has indeed sprung. I hate to be the one who mentions it even before Farmers and The Warehouse have started rolling out tinsel and playing carols on high rotate: but it also […]
