Your Money With Mary Holm

Your Money With Mary Holm episodes:

• 04.18.2024

  Your Money with Mary Holm

  Today Mary Holm talks to Jesse about some important points of Kiwisaver for children and the difference it can make for them later on in life whether it's buying a home or their retirement plans.

  
• 04.04.2024

  Your Money with Mary Holm

  Today Mary talks to Jesse about some quick tricks with numbers to help with Kiwisaver and almost any investing. She runs through what the "Rule of 72 and dollar cost averaging" is and how it can help to make investment...

  
• 03.21.2024

  Your Money with Mary Holm

  Today Mary Holm talks to Jesse about the great year Kiwisaver funds have just had.

  
• 03.07.2024

  Your Money with Mary Holm

  Today Mary's focusing on women and money ahead of International Women's Day tomorrow. She has facts and figures on women's finances and found that women invest well in some ways but could do better.

  
• 02.22.2024

  Your Money with Mary Holm

  Today Mary talks to Mark about people's financial knowledge and some of the reasons people are choosing not to be part of the KiwiSaver scheme.

  
• 02.08.2024

  Mindful Money: a website for checking out where your KiwiSaver is invested

  KiwiSaver funds are moving away from investing in harmful products, the charity Mindful Money revealed last week. Their website is a good place to check out the kind of investments your own KiwiSaver provider is involved in, says personal finance expert...

  
• 01.25.2024

  Your Money with Mary Holm

  Today Mary talks to Jesse about bank term deposits, the rates and the risks.

  
• 12.21.2023

  Your Money with Mary Holm

  Today Mary Holm wraps up the big financial issues that have been around in 2023.

  
• 12.07.2023

  Your Money with Mary Holm

  Today Mary talks to Jesse about repaying debt and why wealth is a bit like a tank full of water. She's also urging people to avoid running up high-interest debt over the Christmas season.

  
• 11.23.2023

  Your Money with Mary Holm

  Today Mary talks to Jesse about which Kiwisaver providers are the best - and worst - at offering various services to their members. She also looks at some of the services that listeners might not be aware you can get...

  
• 11.09.2023

  Your Money with Mary Holm

  Today Mary has a close look at investing in shares both in Aotearoa and overseas. She's collated some interesting numbers about how the different stocks have fared over the past five decades.

  
• 10.26.2023

  Your Money with Mary Holm

  This week Mary talk to Jesse about getting smarter with Kiwisaver choices and overall trends for funds.

  
• 10.12.2023

  Your Money with Mary Holm

  This week Mary Holm is back to talk about the pros and cons of being either a regular or casual investor.

  
• 09.28.2023

  Your Money with Mary Holm

  This week Mary Holm is back to talk about ways to boost your savings. It's insights she included in her book Rich Enough. She recommends setting goals that are SMART: specific, measurable, achievable (w)ritten and time-bound. She also talks about...

  
• 09.14.2023

  Your Money with Mary Holm

  Today Mary talks to Jesse about how much insurance we should have, especially with premiums on the rise at the same time there appears to be more climate related damaged being caused.

  
• 08.31.2023

  Your Money with Mary Holm

  Today Mary talks to Jesse about whether house prices are still too high and that buyers may have to adjust their expectations.

  
• 08.17.2023

  Your Money with Mary Holm

  Today Mary Holm looks at options for people who are struggling to pay the never ending increasing rates bills. She explains there are rebates for people on low incomes and the option to postpone payments until after you die.

  
• 08.03.2023

  Your Money with Mary Holm

  Today Mary talks to Jesse about a question sent in by a listener who is over 65 on what to do with money they don't need to access right now. Mary talks about the options of Kiwisaver or term deposits...

  
• 07.20.2023

  Your Money with Mary Holm

  Today Mary talks about options with mortgage repayments and options when you need to renew at a higher interest rate.

  
• 07.06.2023

  Your Money with Mary Holm

  Today Mary talks to Jesse about important information in your annual KiwiSaver statement and how to improve it next time.

  
• 06.22.2023

  Your Money with Mary Holm

  Today Mary talks to Jesse about how it's OK to give up on ever owning a home and how it can work to be a long-term renter.

  
• 06.08.2023

  Your Money with Mary Holm

  Today Mary talks to Jesse about children and Kiwisaver a way to get them started early and potentially set up with a 33 thousand dollar home deposit by the time they turn 18.

  
• 05.25.2023

  Your Money with Mary Holm

  Today Mary talks to Jesse about the Kiwisaver positive results for the first quarter of 2023. There's also new Kiwisaver help for new parents.

  
• 05.11.2023

  Your Money with Mary Holm

  This week Mary Holm talks to Jesse about 'laddering' a clever way with term deposits and even mortgages. She explains exactly what it is and how it can give longer term returns on deposits; frequent access to some of your...

  
• 04.27.2023

  Your Money with Mary Holm

  Today Mary talks about the importance of 'emergency money'. A recent Financial Services Council survey found that 39% of New Zealanders don't have access to $5000 within a week without borrowing. She has some tips on how to have an...

  
• 04.13.2023

  Your Money with Mary Holm

  Today Mary Holm speaks to Charlotte Ryan about how to complain about any financial service in NZ. Research from the FMA shows that only a third of New Zealanders would know what to do if they were treated unfairly by...

  
• 03.30.2023

  Your Money with Mary Holm

  Today Mary talks to Jesse about what she's learnt from the Film Fraud Festival. The festival has been on a the the Q Theatre in Auckland and Mary is talking about some of the warning signs that you're being contacted...

  
• 03.16.2023

  Your Money with Mary Holm

  Today Mary talks about unusual KiwiSaver investments.

  
• 03.02.2023

  Your Money with Mary Holm

  Today Mary talks about why Kiwisaver default members are getting a bad deal, and problems with benchmarks for all KiwiSaver funds.

  
• 02.16.2023

  Your Money with Mary Holm

  Today Mary Holm talks to Jesse about a harrowing few days being trapped in Piha while visiting friends. She's manage to leave the flood hit suburb, but says it's been a tough time for locals with no power, no phone...

  
• 02.02.2023

  Your Money with Mary Holm

  For her first chat of 2023 with Jesse, Mary Holm talks about some positive financial issues. She has a list of spending that makes people happy, including paying off debt, paying for travel and events, as well as beautifying homes...

  
• 12.15.2022

  Your Money with Mary Holm

  This week Mary talks to Jesse about the worrying state of the finances for the over 65 age group in New Zealand. She's been looking at the latest data in the Retirement Commission's report which is released every three years.

  
• 12.01.2022

  Your Money with Mary Holm

  Today Mary talks to Jesse about the emails she received from people explaining who they would gift one of her two books to!

  
• 11.17.2022

  Your Money with Mary Holm

  Today Mary talks about 3 types of mortgages she's describing as clever. You also have a chance to win a copy of one of her two latest books. You can enter by saying in 30 words or fewer who you...

  
• 11.03.2022

  Your Money with Mary Holm

  Today Mary Holm talks to Jesse about which funds, in and out of Kiwisaver, are best at different life stages. She says it's less about age than it is about how you will spend the money and risk tolerance.

  
• 10.20.2022

  Your Money with Mary Holm

  Today Mary talks to Jesse about mortgages and whether or not you should be fixing them while there's such volatility with interest rates. She also discusses ways to split your risk with investments in these uncertain times, such as diversifying...

  
• 10.06.2022

  Your Money with Mary Holm

  Today Mary talks to Jesse about the Financial Markets Authority report on KiwiSaver. She also answers a question from a retired listener who has lost a substantial amount of money from her Kiwisaver in the past 10 months and wonders...

  
• 09.22.2022

  Your Money with Mary Holm

  Your Money with Mary Holm

  
• 09.08.2022

  Your Money with Mary Holm

  Today Mary talks to Jesse about the range of numbers around in terms of Kiwisaver and what they all mean. She also recommends using the Sorted KiwiSaver calculator to help work out what messages they are sending.

  
• 08.25.2022

  Your Money with Mary Holm

  Today Mary Holm talks to Jesse about whether retired people can "eat their houses". She's exploring the idea that many retirees are short of cash but own very valuable homes. She has some ideas on how to get an income...

  
• 08.11.2022

  Your Money with Mary Holm

  This week Mary talks about what we can learn from animal investors..

  
• 07.28.2022

  Your Money with Mary Holm

  Mary talks today about growing women's financial wellbeing. She's been at at Financial Council summit on women and finances which was looking closely at the gender retirement gap. Mary shares what was discussed at that session. If you are in...

  
• 07.14.2022

  Your Money with Mary Holm

  Today Mary Holm answers questions from listeners who're concerned about their Kiwisaver balances going down and when they should consider changing out their funds.

  
• 06.30.2022

  Your Money with Mary Holm

  Today Mary Holm's shifting her focus away from the woes of current Kiwisaver accounts to ways of curbing spending as the cost of living rises and mortgage interest rates increase.

  
• 06.16.2022

  Your Money with Mary Holm

  This week Mary Holm is tackling the issue of whether or not Kiwisaver Funds are good value for money and what you can do about it if they're not.

  
• 06.02.2022

  Your Money with Mary Holm

  Today Mary Holm talks about the worries listeners have about their Kiwisaver accounts right now.

  
• 05.19.2022

  Your Money with Mary Holm

  This week Mary Holm addresses more listener questions about investment and the comparison between shares and rental property returns.

  
• 05.05.2022

  Your Money with Mary Holm

  Today Mary Holm answers a list of questions from a listener regarding when it's a good idea to suspend Kiwisaver payments.

  
• 04.07.2022

  Your Money with Mary Holm

  This week financial journalist and author Mary Holm talks to Jesse about the latest Canstar Consumer Pulse report. It shows that 55% of New Zealanders are spending more than they earn.

  
• 03.24.2022

  Your Money with Mary Holm

  New Zealand's inflation rate has hovered around 2 percent for most of this century, but experts say it could reach 7 percent this year. Financial journalist Mary Holm offers some advice for people worried about how to secure their money in...