This week on Lunch Money, Brooke Roberts (Sharesies' Co-Founder) and Alice Rountree (Sharesies' Financial Analyst) have chat with catch up with Grant Straker, the co-founder and CEO of NZ based (but ASX listed) Straker Translation.  Grant talks through how he and his team run a company with global clients from NZ, how they use AI translation and why he decided to list on the Australian market rather than NZ.

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Sharesies' Lauren Croft and Alice Rountree are joined on Lunch Money this week by Barry Coates. Barry is the founder and CEO of Mindful Money, an organisation that seeks to promote ethical investment in both Kiwisaver and investment funds. Barry offers up a basic 101 on how to make sure you're putting your money where it can do the most good.

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This week on Lunch Money, Brooke Roberts (Sharesies' Co-Founder) and Alice Rountree (Sharesies' Financial Analyst) catch up with Australian-based financial journalist Jessica Sier to chat about all things Australian Securities Exchange (ASX). Jessica has spent time covering carmakers in Europe for Dow Jones Newswires and capital markets and technology for The Australian Financial Review. She tells us a little about the Australian commodity sector and provides some handy tips around building valuable investing habits.

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This week, we have a returnee to Lunch Money! Brooke Roberts (Sharesies' co-founder) and Alice Rountree (Sharesies' Financial Analyst) talk to Phillippa Harford, Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of NZX-listed company Infratil (IFT).Phillippa touches on Infratil's latest financial results and what we can expect Infratil to focus on in the future. Acquisitions and climate change also make appearances in the chat—listen in to hear how these topics fit in with Infratil's business. 

If you'd like to check out Phillippa's previous Lunch Money episode listen to it here. 

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On this special 2021 Government Budget edition of Lunch Money, Sharesies' co-founders Leighton Roberts and Sonya Williams chat to journalist Jenée Tibshraeny from interest.co.nz. The crew dive into the recent Government Budget and Reserve Bank's latest announcement on the Official Cash Rate (OCR), and covers what this might mean for you as an investor. Jenée also gives us insight into one of the lingering curiosities you may have, by telling us what exactly happens on Budget Day as a journalist.

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Sharesies' Leighton Roberts and Erin Moriarty are joined on Lunch Money this week by Kirsty Godfrey-Billy, Chief Financial Officer (CFO) at ASX-listed company Xero. Kirsty gives us insight into Xero's latest financial results—chatting growth, share price movements, Xero's strategy and more. 

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This week on Lunch Money, Alice Rountree (Sharesies' Financial Analyst) and Lauren Croft (Sharesies' Product Owner) catch up with Victoria Harris from The Curve, an education platform providing investing and finance content to women globally. Victoria has over 10 years of experience in the investments industry, and is currently a Portfolio Manager at Devon Funds Management. She gives us an idea of what her day-to-day role looks like, provides some top tips and tricks for choosing what to invest in, and chats about the importance of championing women's financial literacy.

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This week on Lunch Money, Brooke Roberts (Sharesies' co-founder) and Alice Rountree (Sharesies' Financial Analyst) chat to Brian Ward, CEO of ASX-listed company Aroa Biosurgery—a soft-tissue regeneration company that develops, manufactures and distributes medical and surgical products. Brian takes us through Aroa's business model, and reflects on Aroa's journey to becoming an ASX-listed company.

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This week on Lunch Money, Brooke Roberts (Sharesies' co-founder) and Alice Rountree (Sharesies' Financial Analyst) are joined by Ralph Highnam, CEO of ASX-listed company Volpara Health Technologies (VHT). Volpara Health is an NZ-based medical research, development and manufacturing company.  Ralph tells us who Volpara are and what they're all about, and gives us further insight into his role within the company.

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This week, Sonya Williams (Sharesies' co-founder) and Angus Watson (Sharesies' Head of Investments) chat to Scott Phillips, Chief Investment Officer at The Motley Fool Australia. Scott fills us in about what’s happening in the Australian share market and economy, key things to keep an eye on in the Australian economy as an investor, and how the Australian share market has performed over time.

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