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Smart Money

Smart Money

By: Newstalk ZB
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 Looking to make sense of your dollars? Newstalk ZB’s Smart Money delves into the deep, dark recesses of unwanted debt, traverses the highs and lows of investments and helps to ensure you money works for you.

Our industry experts give us their top tips on a wide selection of topics including mortgage rates, stock, savings, goal-setting and retirement.2025 Newstalk ZB Economics Personal Finance
Episodes
  • Jannet Xuccoa: When's the right time for a trust?

    Jannet Xuccoa: When's the right time for a trust?
    Dec 21 2025

    Often trust have been seen to be province of the uber wealthy. But are they? And often people don't think about this issue until it is too late

    So when should we think about these issues - our family. inheritances and what's gonna happen to our money when we aren't around to look after it?

    Managing Director for New Zealand Family Trust Services Limited Janet Xuccoa joins Tim Beveridge to give her advice on trust accounts, and how they should be used.

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    44 mins
  • Andrew Bascand: We've seen the bottom of the rate cycle

    Andrew Bascand: We've seen the bottom of the rate cycle
    Dec 7 2025

    Last week the Reserve Bank dropped the OCR 25 basis points to 2.25%, but their tone was a bit more hawkish than usual.

    Some analysts are thinking it's a signal that rates have gone as low as the RBNZ is willing to drop them - and the new Governor may be wanting to turn a new leaf in 2026.

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    41 mins
  • Lisa Dudson: Is it time to fix long term?

    Lisa Dudson: Is it time to fix long term?
    Nov 30 2025

    We got another OCR cut this week - now down to 2.25% - the lowest it's been since June of 2022.

    That was the last one for the year, so a lot of us mortgage holders are trying to figure out whether things are slowing down, and if it's time to fix for a longer term this time around.

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    41 mins
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