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This week's pick of personal finance stories from the last few days.  

If you’re a Sorted My Plan user, you’ll have noticed a few changes when you logged in today.

This week's selection of personal finance stories from the last few days, plus links to related Sorted content.  

If you’re a Sorted My Plan user, there’s some good news on the way for you.

This week's selection of recent personal finance stories, with links to online versions.  

It’s been a busy start to the year at Sorted, so here’s a quick catch-up on what we’ve been working on and what’s coming up.

A selection of personal finance stories from the last few days.  

At Sorted when we talk about managing your money we usually mention things like budgeting, saving, investing… but one thing we haven’t talked much about is giving.

Martin Hawes: Two sides of risk and return

In his Statement to Parliament today, Prime Minister John Key clarified the Government's plans for tax reform. Here are the main points:

This week's pick of personal finance stories from the last few days, with links to online versions.  

After two-and-a-half years and over 1.2 million members, there are still some aspects of KiwiSaver that don’t get that much attention. Did you know:

This week's selection of personal finance stories from the weekend media, with links to online versions.

Not that long ago you didn’t really think about your mortgage until your fixed term came up for review, then you just fixed it again for another 2-3 years. 

This week's selection of personal finance stories:

Today the Tax Working Group released its report on the tax system and options for reform.

A selection of personal finance stories from the last few days.  

Welcome to the first media round-up for 2010 - a selection of personal finance stories from the last few days, with links to online versions.

It’s the day-to-day decisions that can make or break your ability to reach your goals, and motivational New Zealanders Michael Jones and Nigel Latta know it well.

Saving is a habit that pays off for Retirement Commissioner Diana Crossan and ANZ National chief executive Jenny Fagg.

If you’re a TV or radio star, you’re rolling in it and don’t need to worry about money – right? 

For our sporting champions, setting goals is a part of life as they constantly strive to improve their performance.

OK, we haven’t quite said goodbye to 2009, but as you can see from our home page we’re into the New Year spirit already.

It’s that time when everyone’s doing their “most-popular” lists for the year, so here's ours – the top tools and content Kiwis used and viewed on Sorted in 2009:

This week's round-up of personal finance stories from the last few days (and the last for 2009), with links to online versions.

Since the Cashflow calculator launched in December 2007, we’ve been aware that it hasn’t been the easiest of our tools to use.

This week's selection of personal finance stories from over the weekend:  

Credit cards are a convenient way to pay, but they can require a bit of discipline at this time of year.

Here's this week's selection of personal finance stories from the last couple of days, with links to online versions:

No-one wants to be a Grinch or a Scrooge at Christmas. But that doesn’t mean you have to start the New Year with a debt hangover. 

Stieg Larsson’s “Millennium” novels will be on the reading lists of many K

This week's pick of personal finance stories from over the weekend, with links to online versions:

With the Christmas sales period in full swing, there are lots of attractive finance deals out there. 40 months interest free! No repayments till May! Glossary: interestMoney paid in return for the use of money. If the bank is using your money (in a savings account) they pay you interest. If you are using the bank's money (via a loan), you pay the bank money.

This week's selection of personal finance stories from over the weekend, with links to online versions.

Saving is one of those things that sounds simple in theory, but in reality can be hard to put into practice. Here are five tips to help you get started:

As part of our new “Investigate before you invest” campaign we’ve upgraded our two investing tools – the Risk recommender and Investment recommender. Glossary: RiskGlossary: Investment

This week's round-up of personal finance stories from over the weekend, with links to online versions.

Before you leap into any investment decision, there are some important rules you should follow:

Workplace Savings NZ is holding an online poll to find out which KiwiSaver provider communicates the best. Glossary: providerA company such as a bank, finance or insurance company that creates and provides insurance, mortgage, banking, savings or investment products.

This week's selection of personal finance stories from over the weekend, with links to online versions.

Six things we've learnt from the recession that we shouldn't forget:

This week's selection of personal finance stories from over the weekend, with links to online versions.

Earlier this year, after a couple of years of procrastination, I finally decided to join KiwiSaver. The reduction of the minimum contribution to 2% clinched the deal for me.

A selection of personal finance stories from over the (long) weekend, with links to online versions:

As the secondary school year draws to a close, many senior students around the country (and their parents!) will be preparing for the big move to tertiary study in 2010.

We recently asked New Zealanders if they feel they know enough about insurance to make good decisions about buying or cancelling policies.

This week's collection of personal finance stories from the weekend media, with links to online version.

You spend more of your waking hours at work than at home Monday to Friday, so it’s a good place to make some in-roads with your budgeting, and get closer to your goals.

Getting the right insurance is an important part of managing your money. How important? Raewyn Fox, CEO of NZ Federation of Family Budgeting Services, gives her perspective:

This week's selection of personal finance stories from the weekend media, with links to online versions.

If you’re on a floating mortgage at the moment you’ll be loving the rates currently on offer – which range from 5.69% to

The latest selection of weekend personal finance stories, with links to online versions:

This week I asked around the office for everyone’s favourite money tips. Here are six of the best (in no particular order).

Yes, it was 8 years ago today that sorted.org.nz was officially launched into the world with the catch-cry “When you want to get sorted on money matters use your mouse!” 

A selection of personal finance stories from over the weekend, with links to online versions.

The school holidays can be a demanding time for the household finances.

You may have read a news story recently about people selling KiwiSaver door-to-door.

The latest pick of the weekend’s personal finance stories, with links to their online versions:

The cost of a daily cup of coffee is often used as an example of money that could be better used for saving.

Setting goals is a crucial first step in getting sorted.

Here's this week's selection of the weekend's personal finance stories, with links to their online versions:

It’s been a great week for the surviving Beatles’ retirement funds, with the release of their Rock Band game and remastered CD catalogue.

This week is Financial Awareness Week, organised by the Institute of Financial Advisers.

The weekend media is often a treasure trove of personal finance stories.

Welcome to the new Sorted blog. This is a place for us to share news about what’s happening on sorted.org.nz, and keep you up to date with other ways to help you manage your money.